Recent24 - Documentation

Recent24 is a powerful collection of functions to display recently made postings, comments, trackbacks or even related posts from an external RSS source. This plugin is actually at its version 1.10.4.

INSTALL

• Download the platform independent Source-ZIP from Sourceforge.net
• Unzip the archive
• Upload the entire folder folder named Recent24 to your plugins directory on your serverspace
• Login as admin to your WordPress Weblog
• Activate the plugin “Recent24″ in the plugin administration
• Well done. It should work. Recent24 is tested on the WordPress versions 1.5, 2.0 and 2.3.

METHOD SUMMARY

• setStaticRSS
  The setStaticRSS()-method is used for embedding a RSS search result list to an entered keyword in your posting. The existence of a special trigger executes this method and adds a list of related postings to the given topic from an external RSS source. Do not use the method in your postings. Only use the special trigger (see HOW TO)
• setDynamicRSS
  The setDynamicRSS()-method is used for embedding an updated RSS search result list every time the posting within the trigger is loaded by the main- or single-template of your WordPress weblog. Do not use the method in your postings. Only use the special trigger (see HOW TO)
• get_recent_discussion
  The get_recent_discussion()-method displays all your incoming comments and trackbacks grouped by date and their related postings. The newest comment brings up an older posting to the top of the list to display the line of discussion related to the posting’s comment. (see HOW TO to insert the method calling into your theme files)
• get_recent_trackback
  The get_recent_trackback()-method displays only incoming trackbacks order by incoming date. A formatted output is possible (see HOWTO).
• get_recent_comments
  The get_recent_comments()-methods displays incoming comments and trackbacks with a preview of the content inside the comment’s list. The length of the preview and a formatted output are possible (see HOWTO).
• get_recent_postings
  The get_recent_postings()-methods displays a list of the newest postings of your WordPress weblog (see HOWTO)

HOWTOs

• Add a static list of related blog entries
  To embed a list of related postings by an external RSS source (Google Blogsearch) you have to set a trigger into your posting. While editing your posting you should set at the end of the posting something like this:

  ###rssfix:Keywords seperated by space

  If you save your posting, this trigger will be replaced by the list of related blog entries from external RSS source.

• Add a dynamic list of related blog entries
  To add a dynamic list of related postings by an external RSS source (Google Blogsearch) you have to set a trigger into your posting. While editing your posting you should set at the end of the posting something like this:

  ###rss:Keywords seperated by space

  The linklist will be updated everytime the main- or single-template of your blog is loaded.

© Copyright 2008 Sebastian Schwaner

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

QUESTIONS & BUGS
Feel free to post any question or bug into the comments to this documentation.