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.
It's currently a beta right now, because I am not aware of any issues when adding advanced HTML or javascript. So far I have not had any issues, but I tend to use only basic HTML and CSS. Let me know if you find any issues with it.
Download SideNote Here.
Installation
To install this plugin copy the entire sideNote folder to your "components/plugins/user/" folder
Great idea, Mark! Until now, I've just been adding custom pods to whatever theme I'm using. I've long thought that Laura should add a "text" pod creator that's just a title field and a text field. It would be awesome if this would allow for multiple notes and the ability to move each note around in the sidebar by it's id.
Mark,
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.
Hey Adam, That sounds like it might be more of a function of the global script protection function, but I am not 100% sure. I did run a test on my server (CF8) and it renders the object and embed fine. Check out Ray Camden's post about this here. http://is.gd/587Q
Hi Mark
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
Hey Pierre, I did not add a title as it may not be required for some users. If an individual needed to have a title you could easily add one and wrap it with an H2 tag. :) Glad you found it useful though. Enjoy!
I'm interested in adding some ColdFusion conde into the note, to load dynamic content into it, but whenever I place the code in it, it is disabled. Can I can make this work? Thanks and good job.