SideNote: A Free Mango Blog Plugin

Back when I used BlogFusion as a CMS, it had a very simple utility called notes. Its function was simple. It added a note to your sidebar. I found this really useful when you need to alert your users to a new update or some problem without having to create a blog post about it. I wanted that feature back in mango blog so I created a very simple plugin called SideNote. It allows you to add html to your sidebar so you can use it however you want. Use SideNote to add an alert about upcoming maintenance or an outage, or maybe you need a donate now button? It's up to you.
Update
Thanks to the feedback, I have updated SideNote to include support for the WYSIWYG editor. You can now turn it off and on by clicking the toggle editor icon just like you can in the posts and pages editor. Now you can enjoy SideNote with a simpler more efficient editing experience.
Download SideNote Plugin
- Plugin version:
- 1.2
- Last Updated:
- 2009-10-13
- Requires:
- Mango Blog 1.3+
- Auto-install URL:
- http://www.visual28.com/assets/content/mango/sideNote-1.2.zip
12 comments so far ↓
It seems to be converting < object > and < embed > tags to <InvalidTag>. Is that your doing? Intentional?
I was hoping to use this to temporarily add a flash widget to my sidebar, and this would preclude that working.
Just to let you know I made some modifications to your plugin.
I add the possibilities to add a title for it.
You can see it http://alturl.com/ophr
I made one small change to your plugin.
On the textarea 'sideNoteContent' in the admin, I added the class 'htmlEditor',so I had a wysiwyg editor to use when adding content (which is much easier).
You may want to incorporate this as a setting / feature.
Thanks for the plugin!!!
I don't suppose you want to update this further, and allow for multiple sidenotes to created on a layout? :D
(Would make my life lots easier) I'll owe you beer!
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