Sidenotes with commenting – a tutorial

As i re-designed this site I made the decision to remove the fQuick plugin sidenotes in the sidebar
. fQuick do not allow commenting on the links and I felt like having the opportunity to get some reader feedback on those. As it now seems many of you would like to have this too. Here is a small tutorial how I made it

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I set up a WordPress category called sidenotes to be used only for this purpose, I alse noted the id of this category for use later. So new sidenotes is posted to this category only. I don’t want the sidenotes to show up in the main blog listing on the front page so I excluded this category like this.

// The loop

		// Print the post if not in sidenotes category
		 // The category id noted earlier
			// code...
		
	
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In the sidebar we only want the sidenotes category so we need to modify the loop here too.

// Rewind the loop so it can be used again

// The loop again

		// Print the post if in the sidenotes category
		 // The category id noted earlier
			// code...
		
	

To get the post heading linked to the site of the sidenote is a little bit more complicated
. In every sidenote post I define the url within [url]www.site.com[/url]. To extract those links we need a little regular expressions.

preg_match('|[url](.*?)[/url]|ims', $post->post_content, $m);

Add this in the sidebar loop. The link can then be accessed like this:

The complete sidebar loop would be something like this.

// Rewind the loop so it can be used again

// The loop again

		// Print the post if in the sidenotes category
		 // The category id noted earlier
			// Exctract the link 
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			preg_match('|[url](.*?)[/url]|ims',$post->post_content,$m);
			
			
			
	

A typical sidenotes post look like this
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[url]http://www.andydenton.com/2006/11/05/the-top-55-web-designers-in-the-world/[/url]
According to this site I’m number 19 of the top 55 web designers in the world. Flush…

Now we have sidenotes with the same functionallity as a regular blog post . This way of doing this is much like Asides, but I prefer doing things myself. By the way I imported all my fQuick sidenotes into this new category but that’s a different story and I leave that part to you.