WordPress Plugin: PostPost (Updated)

Feb

18th

Posted in Blogging, Development, Online Advertising, WordPress by Douglas Karr at 6:30 pm

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Update: This Plugin has been moved to my Projects page and updated to:

PostPost – A WordPress Plugin to place customized content before and after each post in your site or your feed.

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I wrote this plugin after trying to add advertising to my feed by myself and getting frustrated. It’s my first ‘complete’ plugin but I think it’s written very cleanly. I really figured out the Plugin architecture utilizing Simple Thoughts’ Copyright Plugin. I utilized the construction of Ryan Duff’s WP Contact Form plugin to write it much more constructively. It’s an excellent plugin to download and learn how to write a plugin since it’s so simple.

Chandra

Hi Doug,

I am trying to install PostPost plugin and it works great. I am putting a promotion after each post but I am having an issue. The promotion is being displayed in the categories / homepage where I have kept the more tag. The promotion appears after the READ MORE link. Is there a way we can fix that? Not show after READ MORE link??

Thanks for your help.

Chandra

Dr. Jim Anderson

Doug: nice plug-in - short & simple. I'm using the default Wordpress theme (v 1.6) and the "After Single Post on Page" option does not seem to display anything.

Did you ever solve the is_single problem?

Douglas Karr

Welcome, Dr. Jim!

I've not seen the is_single problem rectified by WordPress at this point. I am going to take a double-take at the code, but I'm pretty sure the plugin is okay.

Doug

Dr. Jim Anderson

Doug: thanks for the fast reply! So, I guess I did a poor job of asking my question. I seem to be having some issues with how PostPost works with my blog specifically with the single post display option.

Not that it really matters, but my blog is located at:
http://www.theaccidentalnegotiator.com/

It looked like you and a commenter (is that a word?) were discussing this very problem back at the beginning of 2008.

Was it a problem back then? Does the “After Single Post on Page” work on your blog today?

I'm more than willing to admit that I've screwed something up, but first I'm just checking to see if everyone else is having the same problem.

I've looked at your code and it's nice & clean, so for right now I'm blaming "is_single".

Let me know what you think.

Douglas Karr

Released PostPost 1.2.0 today! It utilizes the is_single function of WordPress so you should be able to post something before or after a single post page.

I can't seem to get it working on my blog, though. I'm reading at WordPress support that some other folks are having problems with their template and the is_single function. It doesn't break anything, it just doesn't display anything.

Let me know if it works for your blog, though!