Sidebar For Tiny Theme

About

Sidebar for Tiny Theme is a Micro.blog plugin that adds a sidebar to a blog using Tiny Theme, by Matt Langford. This can be used to show your blog-roll, links, and pretty much anything you can imagine going into a sidebar. It’s designed to be usable out of the box while being customisable to your needs. This site is an example of how it looks (if your viewing this on a mobile phone, change the screen orientation to landscape).

Install

This plugin requires Tiny Theme version 2.7.4 or later to work.

Within Micro.blog:

Go to Plug-ins
Click on Find Plug-ins
Search for “Sidebar for Tiny Theme” and click “Install”

Alternatively, you can click here to see the plugin listing in the Micro.blog Plugin Directory.

Usage

Sidebar for Tiny Theme uses a special, undocumented microhook added to Tiny Theme to place a sidebar on the post-list that appears on your blog’s home page. This means that Sidebar for Tiny Theme shouldn’t override any the existing micro-hooks you may be using.

By default the sidebar will only consist of your blog recommendations, although this can be changed (see below).

The sidebar adopts the theming of your blog so there shouldn’t be a need to modify the CSS. It will slightly increase the width of any page it’s placed on, so as to avoid making the main body too narrow. To avoid this from happing on small screens, such as phones in the portrait orientation, the sidebar will be completely hidden. Pages without the sidebar will not change.

Settings

Sidebar for Tiny Theme comes with the following properties:

Show sidebar on posts: When enabled, the sidebar will appear on the individual pages of blog posts.
Show sidebar on other pages: When enabled, the sidebar will appear on all pages other than blog posts. This includes the Archive, Photos, and any other page added to the site.

Turning on both options will show the sidebar on all pages of the site. Turning both off will only show the sidebar on the home and entry list page.

Customisation

See Customisation for information on how to customise the sidebar for your site.