{"id":19258,"date":"2012-08-01T04:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T04:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/custom-blurb\/"},"modified":"2012-09-06T03:52:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T03:52:20","slug":"custom-blurb","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/custom-blurb\/","author":9013847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","version":"1.0","stable_tag":"trunk","tested":"3.2.2","requires":"3.2.2","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"Custom Blurb","header_author":"Loushou\/toy","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2012-09-06 03:52:20","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"http:\/\/www.custom-blurb.com\/donate","header_plugin_uri":"","header_author_uri":"","rating":0,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":10,"downloads":2164,"num_ratings":0,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","changelog"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":0},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":[],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":[],"screenshots":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[130502,13342,4897,168,162],"plugin_category":[43,50],"plugin_contributors":[83939,94782],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-19258","plugin","type-plugin","status-publish","hentry","plugin_tags-advanced-most-recent","plugin_tags-blurb","plugin_tags-most-recent","plugin_tags-sidebar","plugin_tags-widget","plugin_category-customization","plugin_category-media","plugin_contributors-loushou","plugin_contributors-playwithtoy","plugin_committers-playwithtoy"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/custom-blurb.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[],"raw_content":"\n

This plugin will let you pick any post or page or groups of them and sort them in any order.<\/p>\n\n

And if you dont pick any it will just show the most recent posts.<\/p>\n\n

Most sites are made with groups of posts and specific areas of the screen and this will allow you to do that.<\/p>\n\n

And you can use one of our premade templates or make your own to have the posts show up in a nice uniform manner<\/p>\n\n\n

Plugin Installation<\/p>\n\n

    \n
  1. in the wp admin, hit Plugins on the left nav<\/li>\n
  2. find custom-blurb in the list of plugins and hit \u2018activate\u2019 if its not activated<\/li>\n
  3. now, in the wp admin hit Appearance on the left nav<\/li>\n
  4. under the Appearance menu theres a submenu item called \u2018widgets\u2019 and hit that<\/li>\n
  5. you should see Custom Blurb Widget in the list of available widgets<\/li>\n
  6. drag over the widget into one of your widget areas on the right side of the page (eg, \u201cSidebar 1\u2033)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

    Getting started<\/p>\n\n

    Ok now its installed into your sidebar. Heres how to configure it:<\/p>\n\n

      \n
    1. on the blurb widget thats installed, if the widget window is closed, click on the little down triangle on the right of the title bar.
      \nThis should pop open the blurb widget window<\/li>\n

    2. fill out all the data in the fields. As an example, the blurb widget is hard at work right now in this page\u2019s sidebar \nand here\u2019s how we set it up:\nDisplay Title = \u201cAnother Blurb Example\u201d\nSee more stories url: \u201c\/donate\u201d\nDefault image url: (blank)\nNumber of posts to show: \u201c2\u2033\nNumber of thumbnails to show: \u201c0\u2033<\/p>\n\n

      Go ahead and hit \u201cSave\u201d.<\/p><\/li>\n

    3. Now here\u2019s where it gets fun. Hit the \u201cAdd\u201d button. You should now have a popup that says \u201cFind posts\u201d<\/p><\/li>\n

    4. You can find on all different aspects. If you want to choose from posts that have the word \u201clucky\u201d in the title \nthen type \u201clucky\u201d into the \u201cTitles Contains\u201d field.
      \nIf you want to see all the pages in your site click on the \u201cPages\u201d checkbox in the Post Types area.
      \nYou can also opt to see all posts and pages by checking them both, etc.
      \nIf you want to see all pages and posts that have \u201clucky\u201d in the title, then type \u201clucky\u201d into the \u201cTitles Contains\u201d field \nand check the \u201cPosts\u201d and \u201cPages\u201d checkboxes in the the Post Types area.<\/li>\n
    5. Once you have narrowed your search filters, hit the \u201cSearch\u201d button and voila!
      \nA list of posts\/pages will show up that match your criteria.<\/li>\n
    6. Check on any of the posts that you want to show up in your blurb widget<\/li>\n
    7. Hit the \u201cUse this Post\u201d button.<\/li>\n
    8. You will now see the posts you selected in the widget area.<\/li>\n
    9. If you dont like the order they are showing up in, you can drag them around to your hearts content.\n10.Dont forget to hit \u201cSave\u201d!!<\/li>\n
    10. Now check your blog and blurb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

      The Blurb Template<\/p>\n\n

      Ok well we\u2019ve included a bunch of templates you can copy and paste from.
      \n You can certainly make your own but you will probably need some PHP experience or someone with PHP knowledge to make it go smoothly.
      \n These are all found in the plugins widget\/template folder.<\/p>\n\n

      The \u201cdefault\u201d template is whats in use \u2013 just copy and paste whatever template you want into that default template.
      \nAnd then you can adjust all the CSS with the css style sheets found in plugin CSS folder.<\/p>\n\n

      And for all you scripties \u2013 if you wanna add jQuery stuff \u2013 just pop edit the scripts found in the JS folder.<\/p>\n\n

      Advanced concepts<\/p>\n\n

      If you know how to create widget areas within your template then actually you can put these blurbs all over the place \nnot just the sidebar.
      \nThere are plenty of client sites we made where they the entire page was covered in widget areas \nand the blurbs just filled in the rest.
      \nEven more convenient is the use of blurbs to control which posts you want to \nhilite in your slider. Think about it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

      1.0<\/h4>\n\n
        \n
      • original version release<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

        Here's a link to the official site for the custom-blurb (http:\/\/custom-blurb.com\/)<\/p>","raw_excerpt":"This plugin will let you pick any post or page or groups of them and sort them in any order. And if you dont pick any it will just show the most rece …","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/19258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19258"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/playwithtoy"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=19258"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=19258"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=19258"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=19258"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twd.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=19258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}