Show another Thripp.com blog in your sidebar

If you’re like me (I hope not), you have three Thripp.com blogs: The Thripp.com Development Blog (this one), Brilliant Photography [1], and Daytona State College News [2]. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to feature content from one blog on another?

That’s just the feature I’ve added today, thanks to the Ada A Blog Recent Posts Widget [3] plugin. You can add up to two other Thripp.com blogs to your sidebar under Design > Widgets, with the widgets, Thripp.com Blog and Thripp.com Blog 2. Here’s an example of mine, with my settings:

You can get the blog ID in the footer; it’s displayed for each blog there. This is better and faster than the RSS widget because it taps directly into the Thripp.com database and doesn’t show sticky posts first. I use the WP-Sticky [4] plugin for all my blogs, which you can activate on Thripp.com under Manage > PLUGINS. It lets you pin a post to the top of the blog, like I do for the mission statement here and the intro on my own. Unfortunately, the post also appears pinned to the top of the RSS feed, but the Thripp.com Blog widget gets around it by fetching the posts by date.

If you’re wondering, the plugin [3] only allows you to show one blog. I bumped this up to two by creating a duplicate copy of the PHP scripts and adding “2″ onto the end of all the functions and variables.

You can also feature another Thripp.com blog with this addition. Enjoy your new sharing options!