Sidebar or Bottom Bar showing thumbnail of past blog entries

[rm]

I'm trying to get serendipity to show just one post on the front page. However, I would also like it to show a thumbnail (and optionally, subject heading) for the past 5 or so blog entries on a sidebar or bottom bar. So far, I can't seem to figure out how to do this without simply showing the entire content of each blog entry. The following link basically shows exactly what I'm trying to do in Serendipity. Does anyone know if this is possible, perhaps through some plugin? Thanks a lot!

http://www.vlogville.com/node/2

[garvinhicking]

The first thing you can achieve by configuring the limit of entries tos how within the Serendipity Configuration screen, under "Appearance".

The second thing you can solve with the "recent entries" sidebar plugin.

Best regards,
Garvin

[Guest]

Thanks Garvin for the reply - actually, I did manage to get that - but I can't seem to figure out about getting the Recent Entries plugin to show any thumbnail that may be available for a particular blog entry. Perhaps there would be an easy way to modify that plugin, or perhaps another one is available, that can also show a thumbnail of each past post as well.

[garvinhicking]

For showing a portion of the text, you can use the plugin called "serendipity_plugin_showentries" ("Show entries in sidebar"). It allows Smarty templating, so that you can truncate the text within the template to any amount of characters. Or you can use Smarty markup plugins to extract a specific piece of HTML code there.

This plugin should be more suitable to the task at hand, I guess?

You might want ot have a look at the "photoblog" plugins, which also allow you to specifiy thumbnails for postings to display in your sidebar...?

Regards,
Garvin