Author: Tim Hodson
Blog-in-Blog allows you to use the Wordpress platform more as a CMS system, but still have a blog page on your site. Posts in a specific category can be used to feed the special blog page, and can optionally be hidden from the home page.
You can have more than one category hidden from the homepage, and subsequently more than one page full of posts
Installation:
How to install the plugin and get it working.
Briefly:
Upload the blog-in-blog directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory (or install via wordpress plugins admin menu)
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
Add the shotcode such as [blog_in_blog category_id=1 num=5] to a new PAGE (not post) on your site. Look at the blog-in-blog admin page to find the category_id you need.
Optionally, use the admin page to select which category(ies) to hide from the home page.
Therefore, any posts with the chosen category are shown only on your page and not on the home page, so if you use Wordpress as a CMS, you now have a blog within a blog.
How it works:
Add the shortcode in the body of a new PAGE (not post) to select a number of posts within a specified category. This page with the shortcode becomes your blog in blog page (you can of course call it what you will). i.e [blog_in_blog category_id=1 num=10] Must specify the category_id (ids are visible from the blog-in-blog admin page). Optionally specify a number of posts, defaults to 10.
You can hide the pagination of the posts. [blog_in_blog category_id=1 num=10 pagination=off]
You can optionally hide specified categories from the normal home page and RSS feeds. (There is an admin page for you to do this)
You can optionally specify a template to use for this instance of the blog-in-blog shortcode. [blog_in_blog category_id=1 num=5 template="myfile.tpl"] this template must exist in the wp-content/uploads directory. blog-in-blogib_post_template.tpl in the plugins directory is the default template for the posts.
You can customize some of the look and feel elements of the post display, including your own css style for the pagination, on the blog-in-blog admin page.
Tips
The category list in the blog-in-blog admin page ONLY shows categories with posts. You need to create some content first!
If you modify the bib_post_template.tpl, I would advise using a copy, as this file will be overwritten if you upgrade. You can specify the name of the template file in either the shortcode (applies to that shortcode only) or on the admin page (applies to all, unless shortcode overrides). We always look in wp-content/uplaods/ for your template file first before looking in wp-content/plugins/blog-in-blog
Blog-in-Blog 0.9.5 is nice Wordpress Plugin. We suggest you to install Blog-in-Blog 0.9.5 to your Wordpress blog and view the features of the plugin. For your safety, please have a decent antivirus installed, with updated definitions that will protect you from virus threats.
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Blog-in-Blog 0.9.5 software is 100% clean, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.
