zxdong262

This plugin uses jQuery to expand or collapsable the set of posts for each category, 
uses ajax to get the expandable content from server.
0.WHY i do this.
in my work,i need a widget like this,so l learned to write it. 
and i fully tested it in my site,it works fine. 
since i am newbie,so there might be some bug or problem i do not know, 
i appreciate it if you let me know.
1.About the Current Post
if the current post is in the category,the category link will has a “zxd_current_cat” class, 
i certainly can add the css file in this little plugin,but i will not,because it is ugly. 
you can customize it in your theme css file,like
sidebar .zxd_current_cat{
<pre><code> font-weight:bold;
 color:#08c
</code></pre>
}
2.Suggestion
more clean way to use this widget is set it in your theme’s function.php. 
if you want to know how,visit http://html5beta.com/wordpress/wp-ajax-cllapsing-categories/, 
i will explain it there.
<h3>Known bugs</h3>
none
<h3>License</h3>
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.

WP ajax Collapsing Categories

This plugin uses jQuery to expand or collapsable the set of posts for each category, uses ajax to get the expandable content from server.

jeff_

Articles to Sidebar allow you to put some articles into the sidebar of pages.
When you use WP as a “normal” CMS, you could want to add some custom boxes into the pages’ sidebars. 
Whith “Articles to Sidebar” you can write articles, put them into :
<ul>
<li>a special category (in order to display to all pages)</li>
<li>a category called the same as the current page</li>
<li>both special category and category called the same as the curent page</li>
</ul>
When the article is displayed into the sidebar, the fist images it contains is used to illustrate. 
The displayed content is the article’s excerpt. If there is no excerpt, the extend (before the <code></code> tag) is used and if there is no extend, one is computed (55 first words) and used.
You can choose to put a link to the article or not. That behavior can be chanched for each articles by using a custom boolean var (articles2sidebar_display_link : 1 force link | force no link).
<h3>Versions</h3>
1 first public release 
1.1 better handling of little images ; adding the link to image when present
<h3>Translations</h3>
Actually, there are no translations, but the plugin code is ready for them.

article2sidebar

Articles to Sidebar allow you to put some articles into the sidebar of pages.

WP ajax Collapsing Categories vs article2sidebar