Message Flow

Message Flow provides you with a shortcode you can use on your posts and pages to display your posts in a JavaScript widget powered by ContentFlow.

It even supports podcast integration with PowerPress and external podcast feeds.

Usage

Show the ten latest posts:
[message_flow]

Show the ten latest podcast episodes:
[message_flow podcasts_only=”true”]

Show the five latest posts from category number 11:
[message_flow numberposts=”5″ category=”11″]

Show the three latest posts from an external feed:
[message_flow numberposts=”3″ feed=”http://example.com/feed.rss”]

Disable excerpts:
[message_flow show_excerpt=”false”]

Default parameters:
[message_flow numberposts=”10″ category=”” podcasts_only=”FALSE” download_link_rel=”” permalink_link_rel=”” show_excerpt=”TRUE” excerpt_length=”10″ readmore_text=”Continue reading…” order=”DESC”]

Defining the thumbnails (Album Art)

The thumbnails used in the widget are taken from the posts’ featured images. In the event that a podcast does not have a featured image available, Message Flow will check the following locations for a suitable fallback image:

1. A URL to the fallback image in the shortcode: [message_flow fallback_image="http://example.com/default_image.png"]
2. If you’re using the PowerPress podcasting plugin, the default image will be taken from the iTunes image. PowerPress users can configure this in the “iTunes Feed Settings” section of PowerPress’ configuration. (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=powerpress/powerpressadmin_basic.php)
3. In your theme’s directory. Just make sure it’s 165 pixels square and named “unknown-album_165.png”

Extract the zip file and drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the plugin from the “Plugins” page.

1. 

   Simply add the shortcode to your post or page

2. 

   The Message Flow widget will be placed wherever you put the shortcode

1.1.8

• Released on 06/14/2016
• Tested for WordPress 4.5+
• Added shortcode option message_flow.
• Shortcode option message-flow still supported, but keep in mind message_flow is preferred. Shortcodes with dashes also match shortcodes before the slash, e.g. message is also a shortcode when dash is present. Underscore does not have this problem.

1.1.7

• Added excerpt_length and readmore_text parameters to shortcode

1.1.6

• Fixed undefined variable warning when WP_DEBUG is enabled

1.1.5

• Automatically truncate long posts so widget doesn’t become too large
• Added “show_excerpt” parameter
• Fixed “Invalid argument supplied” warning

1.1.4

• Added support for regular posts that lack an associated podcast episode
• Added “podcasts_only” parameter: [message_flow podcasts_only="true"]

1.1.3

• Fixed bug where post content would be inaccurate for some episodes within widget

1.1.2

• Fixed WP_DEBUG errors that appear when site has no podcast episodes

1.1.1

• Fixed WP_DEBUG errors
• Added screenshots
• Added more usage examples

1.1

• First public release