Simple Post Preview

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Simple Post Preview can create two kinds of pushes. The first is a static push for any post or page. The second one is for categories where the widget automatically shows the latest post in a category. Please not that this readme might be incomplete. If you have any problems or suggestions on things to put here, let me know! Email me at david@ajnered.com. Thanks! Set it up Not really a lot to do here except select the content types you want the plugin to work with on the Simple Post Preview settings page. Customization The GUI of this plugin is pretty straight forward so I just right to the more interesting parts. As of version 2.0 I’ve implemented Twig as template engine and added the feature for designers and developers to use their own templates with Simple Post Preview. In every widget you have a field to add then name of your html template file in the root of your theme folder. Below is an array of all the variables available in the template. If you’re not sure how to use Twig, have a look at this introduction page. $tmplData = array ( 'name' => 'Primary Sidebar', 'id' => 13, 'description' => 'Main sidebar that appears on the left.', 'class' => '', 'before_widget' => '<aside id="simple_post_preview-13" class="widget widget_simple_post_preview">', 'after_widget' => '</aside>', 'before_title' => '<h1 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h1>', 'widget_id' => 'simple_post_preview-13', 'widget_name' => 'Simple Post Preview', 'title' => 'It\'s simple!', 'item_id' => '5919', 'item_type' => 'post', 'content_type' => 'body', 'thumbnail_switch' => 'on', 'thumbnail_size' => 'medium', 'length' => '200', 'link_title' => 'Read more', 'show_categories' => 'on', 'template' => 'my-custom-widget-template.html', 'ID' => 5919, 'post_author' => '1', 'post_date' => '2014-07-15 08:06:56', 'post_date_gmt' => '2014-07-15 08:06:56', 'post_content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...', 'post_title' => 'This is simple post preview', 'post_excerpt' => 'Lorem ipsum...', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'comment_status' => 'open', 'ping_status' => 'open', 'post_password' => '', 'post_name' => 'this-is-simple-post-preview', 'to_ping' => '', 'pinged' => '', 'post_modified' => '2014-07-15 08:17:49', 'post_modified_gmt' => '2014-07-15 08:17:49', 'post_content_filtered' => '', 'post_parent' => 0, 'guid' => 'http://your-site.dev/?p=5919', 'menu_order' => 0, 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_mime_type' => '', 'comment_count' => '0', 'filter' => 'raw', 'content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...', 'permalink' => 'http://your-site.dev/this-is-simple-post-preview/', 'categories' => array ( 0 => array ( 'term_id' => 38, 'name' => 'Plugins', 'slug' => 'plugins', 'term_group' => 0, 'term_taxonomy_id' => 38, 'taxonomy' => 'category', 'description' => '', 'parent' => 0, 'count' => 1, 'filter' => 'raw', 'cat_ID' => 38, 'category_count' => 1, 'category_description' => '', 'cat_name' => 'Plugins', 'category_nicename' => 'plugins', 'category_parent' => 0, 'url' => 'http://your-site.dev/category/plugins/', ), ), 'featured_image' => array ( 'width' => 327, 'height' => 683, 'file' => '2014/07/screenshot-1.png', 'sizes' => array ( 'thumbnail' => array ( 'file' => 'screenshot-1-80x80.png', 'width' => 80, 'height' => 80, 'mime-type' => 'image/png', ), 'medium' => array ( 'file' => 'screenshot-1-143x300.png', 'width' => 143, 'height' => 300, 'mime-type' => 'image/png', ), 'post-thumbnail' => array ( 'file' => 'screenshot-1-327x372.png', 'width' => 327, 'height' => 372, 'mime-type' => 'image/png', ), 'twentyfourteen-full-width' => array ( 'file' => 'screenshot-1-327x576.png', 'width' => 327, 'height' => 576, 'mime-type' => 'image/png', ), ), 'image_meta' => array ( 'aperture' => 0, 'credit' => '', 'camera' => '', 'caption' => '', 'created_timestamp' => 0, 'copyright' => '', 'focal_length' => 0, 'iso' => 0, 'shutter_speed' => 0, 'title' => '', ), 'thumbnail_url' => 'http://your-site.dev/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screenshot-1-80x80.png', 'medium_url' => 'http://your-site.dev/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screenshot-1-143x300.png', 'large_url' => 'http://your-site.dev/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screenshot-1.png', 'post-thumbnail_url' => 'http://your-site.dev/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screenshot-1-327x372.png', 'twentyfourteen-full-width_url' => 'http://your-site.dev/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screenshot-1-327x576.png', ), 'show_image' => true, 'image_url' => 'http://your-site.dev/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screenshot-1-143x300.png', 'excerpt_more' => '' ); I’ve added a hook that allows you to customize the template data. add_filter('simple_post_preview_tmpl_data', function ($tmplData) { // Modify the $tmplData array here return $tmplData; }); Feel free to ask questions or help out, both on wordpress.org and github. Cheers / David