Mar

30

2011

Status Update Custom Post Type

This plugin creates a new custom post type of Status Update

By default a status update does not have a title. You can post a status update
with embedded images and html markup if you wish. The excerpt should not have
any html in it and by default the plugin will attempt to create a plain text
version of your status update.

For example, if your body contains the html:
<p>Wow I really love using <a href="http://shll.me/statustype">Status Update Custom Post Type</a>!</p>

It will automatically generate an excerpt of:
Wow I really love using Status Update Custom Post Type - http://shll.me/statustype

It will also try to pull the alt or title attributes out of images so:
<img src="http://example.com/image.jpg" alt="Example Image" />

Should turn into:
Example Image - http://example.com/image.jpg

By default your status updates do not have title, do not generate titles and
I remove the title tag from the RSS feeds. This may mean your feeds won’t
look correct in Google Reader but this is intentional. For more information
consult the following post:
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/03/15/twitterPostsDontHaveTitles.html#p5574

If it’s really important for you that your status updates have titles you
can go under the Settings > Writing page and check “Enable Title” although I
personally recommend against it.

This plugin also makes sure your status updates show up on the homepage and in
your main RSS feed. I don’t know if the way I’m doing it will cause problems
so please contact me if it interferes with anything your doing. I’m not finding
a lot of documentation about this. So for now it’s trial and error.

If you have any questions, bugs or feature requests please post a comment
here and I will try to respond as quickly as possible.

Installation

Create a status-type directory in your plugins directory. Typically that’s wp-content/plugins/status-type/.
Into this new directory upload the plugin files (status_type.php, etc.)
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

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Brock

I really like the idea of this plugin, however, how can I get it to work with other plugins that autopost to facebook, twitter, linkedin? I’d also like to use a reposting plugin to auto repost my old status updates. Is there a way to get this to work nicely with other plugins?
http://blog.andrewshell.org/ Andrew Shell

Unfortunately it’s still in the early stages of development. It’s my plan to get it to work with other items but right now it’s not incredibly useful unless you’re a developer looking to build off of it.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M74FZY3G624PPZIPTONCGPSQOA Ryan

having compatability issues between SUCPT and Canvas Theme
http://blog.andrewshell.org/ Andrew Shell

Can you clarify what exactly is happening? Typically this plugin won’t do much unless you have a theme that’s expecting it and does something special with it.
http://blog.andrewshell.org/ Andrew Shell

I just tested it out on a dev site I have with the canvas theme. I see an issue with the margin on status items. You can correct this by adding the following style into your custom.css file:
.status { margin: 0 0 40px; }

There seem to be some odd formatting of the nav bar on the status update pages as well. I’ll have to take a look but I think it’s because the styling is somehow tied to specific post type styles and it doesn’t have generic enough styles for custom post types. I think you would see this error with any custom post type, not just SUCPT. I’ll take a look and see if I can find a solution.
http://blog.andrewshell.org/ Andrew Shell

The nav bar issues was from my plugin so I patched the plugin and a new version should be making it’s way out there.
Shan

Hi! I really like your status update plugin, but it seems that even with the “allow comments” option checked on an update post, people cannot update. It just takes them to a “sorry, the page you are looking for does not exist” page. Is there any fix to this or am I doing something wrong? Thanks!
http://blog.andrewshell.org/ Andrew Shell

Try going to your permalinks page and re-save. Sometimes if your permalinks are set before you activate the plugin the custom post pages won’t work.
Shan

Thanks, that was an easy fix! Oh and thank you so much for this plugin, it’s great =)

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