Title: article2sidebar
Author: jeff_
Published: <strong>May 2, 2009</strong>
Last modified: August 14, 2009

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# article2sidebar

 By [jeff_](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeff_/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/articles2sidebar.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/articles2sidebar/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/articles2sidebar/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/articles2sidebar/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/articles2sidebar/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/articles2sidebar/)

## Description

Articles to Sidebar allow you to put some articles into the sidebar of pages.

When you use WP as a “normal” CMS, you could want to add some custom boxes into 
the pages’ sidebars.
 Whith “Articles to Sidebar” you can write articles, put them
into :

 * a special category (in order to display to all pages)
 * a category called the same as the current page
 * both special category and category called the same as the curent page

When the article is displayed into the sidebar, the fist images it contains is used
to illustrate.
 The displayed content is the article’s excerpt. If there is no excerpt,
the extend (before the `<!--more-->` tag) is used and if there is no extend, one
is computed (55 first words) and used.

You can choose to put a link to the article or not. That behavior can be chanched
for each articles by using a custom boolean var (articles2sidebar_display_link :
1 force link | force no link).

### Versions

1 first public release
 1.1 better handling of little images ; adding the link to
image when present

### Translations

Actually, there are no translations, but the plugin code is ready for them.

## Installation

 1. Upload `article2sidebar.zip` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory and uncompress
    it.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Modify the options in the Appearance > Widgets page

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“article2sidebar” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ jeff_ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeff_/)

[Translate “article2sidebar” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/articles2sidebar)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/articles2sidebar/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/articles2sidebar/),
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## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/articles2sidebar/)
 * Tags
 * [articles](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/articles/)[categories](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)
   [pages](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pages/)[sidebar](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)
   [widget](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/articles2sidebar/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ jeff_ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeff_/)

## Support

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