Where's the documentation? Examples anyone?

Hello David,

I’m a beginner in html and css before I continue but only enough to know how to put it all together, so my apologies if you find something wrong with my html. I can show you what I have done with mine to start off.

Kind of did a little bit of guess work to get it working with some help from this blog (although it’s old and doesn’t really work when copying and pasting, as it’s related more to mini loops old version) http://om4.com.au/client/wordpress-miniloops-examples/ .

Here’s an example on my website http://www.handyblogs.com if you look at the circle thumbnails I created with mini loops. Now as for some code, since you’re a programmer you’d probably understand this. On the mini loops screen under the heading “Format” add the following (I didn’t add anything in the before item and after item just the screen where you can add html and shortcodes):

<div class="minibox">
<div class="miniwrapper">
<div id="minithumb" class="miniwrap">
<a href="[ml_url]">[ml_image from=thumb  crop=1 width=150 height=150]</a>
</div>

<div id="minititle" class="miniwrap">
<p><a href="[ml_url]"> [ml_title]</a>
</p></div>

<div id="miniexcerpt" class="miniwrap">
<p>[ml_excerpt length=100 after="..." space_between=1 custom=1]
</p>
</div>

<p class="minimore"><a title="[ml_title]" href="[ml_url]">Read More!</a></p>
</div>
</div>

Basically just use what mini loops put up on the page as a reference and use my code as a reference also if you’d like. After that you’d want to go straight into the CSS and fixing the widths and heights as mine ended up taking over the whole page till fixed the CSS (got me a little freaked out). Hope it’s helped a little bit to get you started.

Hello David,

No problem at all!

It should be added under Appearance>Widgets or if you got a page builder you should be able to use it in there. Here’s a screen shot of my wordpress layout in the widgets section and I’ve circled the important stuff for you. http://i.imgur.com/c2uBwUw.png

In your widgets area you should see two widgets “Mini Loops” and “Mini Mini Loops”. The “mini loops” widget has more settings than the “mini mini loops”. After you add the widget to a side bar or through a page builder you should see the screen with all your options. Let me know how you go.

That’s correct!

As for that website I showed you, it’s a little old and you’ll see why at the bottom of the page I’m about to link you to below. You’ll see they used curly brackets in their codes, in the new version they took make adjustments to it.

So this is the link I’m talking about above and where you can find the shortcodes used http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/mini-loops/other_notes/

Yeah it’s a little annoying using the page builder for me also as I’ve had to do lots of CSS to try get things aligned the way I want and once I move them a row up or down I have to change the CSS again. Shame we can’t add out own ID’s or classes to each one.

Just a tip: I’d suggest you save each time and have another window open of your website (in preview mode it doesn’t really work out for some reason at times I’ve noticed)

I agree, it’s a little broad. It took me about a few days to figure out what the hell I’m supposed to do with it for what I wanted to do. At the same time I think it was made so broad because you can use it in different ways and everyone may want a different result.

On the other notes page don’t worry about what’s written until you go down to where it says “Shortcodes”, these are the codes you should be using, anything above that is an explanation of the options listed already in the widget.

I’m no expert at miniloops but If you want you can show me your code you’re trying to use and I’ll see if I can figure what’s going wrong. Shame the developers can’t actually give some help with their plugin!