The wordpress blogs I've seen have a sidebar listing of recent posts by post title along with the date listing for past posts. Is there any way to do that with this module?

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manarth commented

The WP Blog module provides a block which outputs a list of recent posts - if you take a look at my blog (http://deglos.com/) you'll see this in action in the right-hand sidebar (under Blog Archive).

Is that what you're looking for?

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tranquillus commented

I have the blog archive (by date) working, but I was wanting a "recent post" block with the titles listed. If you look at the blog located here (it's just one I ran across -it's not mine) http://lifeintheboomerlane.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/ouija-board-a-do-it-... and see in the right sidebar above the date archive, that's what I had in mind.

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Home Place commented

This would seem to be a standard feature. Also, wouldn't it make sense to integrate this module with the existing Blog module?

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manarth commented
Title: Recent posts... » Add list of recent posts...
Status: Active » Fixed

Fixed in 7.x-1.x branch: added a view (which exposes a block) that provides a list of the 5 most-recent blog posts.

The list is in the format:
- title
xxx ago

e.g.

  • New blog post
    17 min 41 sec ago
  • An older blog post
    17 min 53 sec ago

As with all views, the fields and formatting can be customised by site-administrators as needed.

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manarth commented

"Also, wouldn't it make sense to integrate this module with the existing Blog module?"

Possibly. However, blog is in core (although how long it stays in core is another question) which affects the pace of change of the module. The WP Blog module also has a different use-case: this is deliberately imitating the Wordpress-style of blog. I'm not planning to change the approach right now, but if anyone would like to develop a patch I'd certainly be happy to review it and reconsider the benefits of integrating with core's Blog module.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.