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To spice up my site, I have created a bunch of clean and simple WordPress plugins. In time, I will publish them all together with the Text is Art, Content is King Theme, but before that (or if you just want the plugins and not the theme), I’ll make them available on this page.
1. Coming Up Next
This plugin takes your next scheduled posts and show them to your visitors. You can see it in action at the top of this blog’s side bar.
Installing and using the Coming Up Next plugin is easy. Just unzip the package, upload the contents to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate the plugin.
To make your next posts visible, you can either add the plugin to your site as a widget or if your theme doesn’t support widgets, add the following code to the location where you want it to be:
if (function_exists('list_upcoming_posts') {
list_upcoming_posts();
}
(Don’t forget to schedule some posts for a future publish date!)
The widget can be configured in the widget settings screen, but if you prefer code, the function takes three parameters:
- $num_posts: The number of posts to list. Default = 1.
- $show_excerpt: If true, show the post’s excerpt after it’s title. Default = false.
- $title_format: The format of the date string. Any text is allowed, and the special code [date] is converted into the post’s publish date. Default = “Coming Up on [date]“
Give it a try!
Coming Next Plugin (33) - 1.49 KBIn case you like what I’m doing and want to pay for the plugin (and the theme), you can use the following button to send some money (it’s safe, and you pick the amount!)
Enjoy!
Change History
- November 18, 2008 (version 1.2): Fixed a bug that caused some installations of the plugin not to start at all.
- November 13, 2008 (version 1.1): Fixed a bug that messed up the $post global when using the plugin in the side bar. Now the plugin will not interfere with others anymore.
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I was trying to install this on my site, but I kept running into problems with WP errors like
“Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /wp-content/plugins/coming-next/coming_next.php:229) in /public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 694″
Any ideas how to rectify this?
@mercurial_scribe: Thanks for the feedback, and sorry for the bug. It’s fixed now, so please download the newest version and try again :)
This looks like a GREAT addition for one of my blog-based sites. But the download link does not appear to be working. Have you taken this offline? Does it work with WordPress 2.7?
@Maria: I just tested, and the download works for me. Let me know if the link still doesn’t work for you and I’ll set up an alternative download link.
And yes, the plugin works just fine on 2.7. I just upgraded WordPress on this blog, and there were no problems.
Thanks for your feedback! I hope you’ll get to try the plugin soon!
That is TOO WEIRD. I’m home now — was traveling — and downloaded with no problem from the same link at home. Thanks for the reply — it brought me back here to try again. Can’t wait to update all of my blogs to WordPress 2.7. Your plugin is likely to used on two of the sites where I occasionally schedule posts for the future.