For the curious few, the WordPress folk, you’ll be pleased to know that Asides (the in-line, Kottke-esque kind) still work in WordPress 2.2. And just to be clear, I’m talking about mini-posts like the Del.icio.us-driven ones that appear on my blog automatically. Before today (at least, since my recent upgrade) these were formatted like honest-to-goodness posts with none-too-informative lower-case titles (like “links for 2007-05-23″). Now, they show up as what they are: nice, neat boxes of just the links I’ve posted today. Check ‘em out if you want.
If Asides means something different to you, such as a micro-blog of tiny posts kept over in a sidebar, then I’ve nothing for you. For that matter, I think that adding sidebarred Asides is now as simple as dragging a Widget and dropping it like it’s hot.
Anyway. Asides will work in WordPress 2.2, though you are going to have to use some common sense if the theme your running has strayed far afield from the out-of-the-box install. Just remember that PHP calls don’t always have to be strung together in a single line. And you might want to encase your Asides code in a DIV.
I gave some thought to doing a real-live and honest breakdown of the minor tweaks I had to perform to get Asides to look just right, but I think I’ll just wait and see if anyone else is going to really need that kind of walkthrough.
