WP-Microsummary plugin for WordPress
Installation
Note: this plugin has been tested with WordPress 2.x only, but it may work for 1.5 as well (please leave a comment...).
- download microsummary.zip and uncompress it
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add directory
microsummary, including all files, to thewp-content/plugins directory* - upload everything to your blog host
- activate plugin WP-Microsummary
- Test in Firefox 2.0+ by making a bookmark for any of your blog pages; you should get the choice to make a "Live Title" with the headline of your latest posting.
- Enjoy!
*) Your plugins directory now contains this:
wp-content/plugins/microsummary/microsummary-plugin.php wp-content/plugins/microsummary/microsummary.php wp-content/plugins/microsummary/README.txt
About the Microsummary Plugin
The purpose of this plugin is to return the latest blog post title as plain text, to be used as a microsummaryfor Firefox 2.0+
A microsummary acts as a "live bookmark", always reflecting the latest headline of the bookmarked website.
Microsummaries are referenced by a special "link" element. This Microsummary Plugin inserts a link to the actual micro summary content into your blog:
<link rel="microsummary"
type="text/plain"
href="/path/yo/your/blog/microsummary" />
This plugin strives to the minimum load and traffic, by just returning plain text. For even better performance, a caching scheme could be implemented in case microsummaries ever get popular. As documented, Firefox does respect the HTTP caching schemes.
References
Troubleshooting
With few badly written WordPress themes, the plugin does not work. This is likely caused by a missing wp_head() call in the theme's header template (often called header.php). If that is the case, fixing it is simply a matter of inserting <?php wp_head(); ?> at the right point in the php template.
See this blog post for more details: WP Themes and Microsummary plugin. Comments are welcome!.
Changelog
Version 0.9.3 - 20061107 - Fix: removed rewrite rules, always use query string instead - Tested with WordPress 2.1 (alpha) and popular WP Themes Version 0.9.2 - 20061025 - Fix in case no Permalinks Structure is used (no rewrite rules are available from mod_rewrite). Version 0.9.1 - Permalink Structure is automatically generated after installation Version 0.9.0 - Initial Public release
