Con Stambo

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!

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.