WordPress Plugin – upPrev: NYTimes Style “Next Post” jQuery Animated Button

June 10, 2010 Jason Pelker News 147 Comments

Our expert jQuery programmer, Grzegorz Krzyminski, has created a WordPress Plugin to emulate the “Next Post” buttons you see once you scroll to the bottom of New York Times web articles.

UpPrev has been updated to V1.4. There’s a boat-load of changes, so you should update accordingly. Subscribe to our RSS feed to learn when additional updates occur.

New York Times “Next Post” Animated Button Examples

Just like the NYTimes button, upPrev allows WordPress site admins to provide the same functionality for their readers. When a reader scrolls to the bottom of a single post, a button animates in the page’s bottom right corner, allowing the reader to select the next available post in the single post’s category (the category is also clickable to access an archive page). If no next post exists, no button is displayed.

The plugin’s only current option is choosing a fade-in or a fly-in animation.

It’s absolutely beautiful. I love Grzegorz’s work and I invite you to download the plugin in the WordPress repository.

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Written by Jason Pelker

Item-9 Consulting is headed by Jason Pelker, a leading Chicago developer and marketer of small business and nonprofit websites.

147 Comments to "WordPress Plugin – upPrev: NYTimes Style “Next Post” jQuery Animated Button"

Adam W. Warner

June 11, 2010

Great idea for a plugin, but unfortunately it didn’t display correctly on my site. It was over to the left and underneath everything. Probably just some CSS changes to either the plugin or my theme.

I’ll have a more detailed look later and report back.
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Jason Pelker

June 11, 2010

Yeah, it seems a bit fickle as of right now. I’m working with my developer to iron out the kinks. Thanks for your feedback, though! Btw, how’d you find the plugin? Were you searching for the same functionality?
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KlixIndia

January 13, 2012

hi

how i can add this manually in website. what code i need to put in single.php file to get it worked
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Adam W. Warner

June 11, 2010

I have some “alerts” setup to scan the web for keyword phrases like “wordpress plugin” and your post was in the results;)

Looking forward to any updates coming:)
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Jason Pelker

June 11, 2010

Please re-download the plugin and give it another try. I inadvertently renamed the plugin’s folder before compressing it into a .zip.

My error has been corrected and the developer has actually rewritten the code a bit so this won’t be an issue for anyone else.

Thanks again!
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Adam W. Warner

June 11, 2010

Hmmm…not yet for me, cleared browser cache (FF 3.6.3), same behavior.

Here’s a screenshot of the lower left of my screen. You can see the next post link. Also, when using Firebug there seems to be no styling associated with the “upprev_box” div?

http://tinypic.com/r/2gtagpv/6

Firebug – http://tinypic.com/r/dre6iv/6

I’ll try the default theme and see what happens…
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Adam W. Warner

June 11, 2010

…and in Kubrick…

http://tinypic.com/r/2d97eat/6

I wonder if maybe there’s a jQuery lib conflict?
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Jason Pelker

June 11, 2010

Make sure you trash that old plugin completely and use this download link. Again, it works on thesis and other basic sites. I can’t believe it’s not working on Kubrick!
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Jason Pelker

June 11, 2010

Oh, yeah it’s definitely working on a virgin install of Kubrick: http://item-9.com/thesis/2010/06/reception/.

I think we may have a plugin conflict. You know the drill…deactive, reactivate one by one and keep refreshing until upPrev breaks again.

Please report back your findings!
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Adam W. Warner

June 11, 2010

Great! Working now. My second download renamed the upprev folder (upprev) and I installed that one by mistake…which breaks things…whoops.

So…great plugin guys! Thanks for making it freely available, I’m sure it will be a hit when it goes live in the repository.
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Adrian

June 13, 2010

Great plugin, any way to adjust when it’s displayed? I fear readers may not make it to the very bottom of the comments after a post.
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Tim Kraaijvanger

June 14, 2010

Great plugin! Just as Adrian I’m looking for a way to show the box earlier. Not all my visitors scroll all the way down.
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Jason Pelker

June 15, 2010

Offset is now an option in version 1.3.
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Adrian

June 15, 2010

AWESOME! Thank you for the quick update!
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Massa P

June 14, 2010

On my blog, it incorrectly shows number of total posts per category. Actually, it ALWAYS says, “1 of 5″ for all displays… regardless of how many posts are actually in a category.
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Grzegorz

June 17, 2010

Hello,

You may try the latest version 1.3

Indeed there was some problem with some templates. Mostly it was caused by the “Recent Post” in the sidebar, which was using a method to change global variables storing info about currently displayed post.

The current version should resolve this issue, but if not, let us know.
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Jon Hillenbrand

August 10, 2010

I’m getting the same problem with 1.3.3. I tried removing “recent post” widget, but no joy. Any ideas?
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Simon

June 15, 2010

Hello!

When I try to use your Plugin (which is really neat btw) it brakes my Dynamic Content Gallery. Would be nice if you can fix this. I believe this could have something to do with my Wibiya Toolbar too.

And and I have a Feature Request: Is it possible to Display the next Post, no matter which Category?

Greetings Simon
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Avi

June 15, 2010

Great implementation for WP,saw this on NYTimes recently.The plugin out of the box works with some themes and not some, tried removing all js and activated only upprev, the plugin loads in the header but is not displayed or is getting hidden in the background, any sugg on fixing this.
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DaxHorror

June 16, 2010

Hello!

I absolutely love the plugin, one of the coolest, sleekest ones I’ve ever used on my site, so kudos to you!

But since I upgraded today, it no longer works on my site. I’m not sure what could’ve caused the problem, I’ve not made any other changes to my site, just a simple upgrade of your plugin.. Any idea what I can do to fix that?

Thanks so much!
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Jason Pelker

June 17, 2010

Here’s a link to an older version: http://item-9.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/upprev.zip . Try downgrading.
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Dennis

June 16, 2010

hi, very nice plugin, but can tell me, where i can adjust the color of the fonts. in my case they are very light grey and i believe nobody is able to read it.
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Jason Pelker

June 17, 2010

Download Firebug, inspect the box’s font qualities and then adjust the CSS manually. You could probably put the declarations in your own style sheet and make sure they’re enacted by using the !important property.
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Dennis

June 18, 2010

okay, thanks! now it works
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Siva

December 21, 2010

Besides that , you can add font settings in the next version ! Pls…
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Khan

June 25, 2010

Much like Massa P, I am also only seeing 1 of 5 no matter how many posts are in the category…

I have upgraded to 1.3 version and I do not have any recent posts plugin enabled on my site…
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Matt

June 29, 2010

Awesome plugin! Just installed it and going to work playing with it. Going to try to add images to it. I’ll let you know what I can cook up
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Joshua Lynch

July 9, 2010

Nice plugin! Installed it, blogged it and also have the 1 of 5 issue no matter how many posts. But I think I’ve found the conflict and will get rid of it. In the meantime, I don’t think anyone will notice the inaccurate count
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alan mcdowell

July 29, 2010

Hello, can you please tell me how to stop the plugin always showing 1 of 5. I would like it to show 1 of total or dont show 1 of 5 and just click the title to go to the next page, as long as it doest stop at 5 post. Many thanks
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Brett

July 15, 2010

Fantastic plugin! I’ve been wanting to do this ever since I saw it in NYT. Quick question.

I’ve adjusted the flyin to happen whenever the user sees 45% of the site. However, the box still doesn’t fly in until you scroll to the very bottom. Any ideas what might cause this?
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Brett

July 15, 2010

Never mind. I got it to work!

Do you think it will ever be possible to cause the flyout whenever someone reaches the very beginning of the comments?

Because right now, with it based on percentage, where the flyout happens will change as comments are added to a post. So I can set it to 45%, but on pages with few comments, the flyout could happen in the middle of the post and on posts with a ton of comments, the flyout won’t happen until you scroll down a great deal into the comments. It would be great if it was consistent across all posts, no matter their length?

BTW, do you all take donations?
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Jason Pelker

August 8, 2010

I think the new version accomplishes this request. Feel free to update using the WordPress admin panel or via the plugin repository.

Feel free to drop a donation for the developer on PayPal: http://bit.ly/9vksPi
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Piyush Agarwal

August 4, 2010

Hi,

The plugin seemed nice, so I installed on my blog. Sadly its not working on my current theme. I tried on the default theme and it worked.

Any idea what can be done to make it work with my current theme?

Piyush
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Jason Pelker

August 8, 2010

I sense javascript conflicts…Unfortunately, you’ll likely need to debug your theme.
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Denise

August 5, 2010

Hello, thank you for this much-needed plugin. Installing it causes my “Featured Content Gallery” plugin to not load. Any ideas? Thanks again.
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Jason Pelker

August 8, 2010

This is likely a plugin javascript conflict issue. Sorry, but I don’t have a solution for you at this time.
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Jon Hillenbrand

August 9, 2010

Love this plugin. Only problem is that it only displays my last 5 posts. It says 5 of 5 instead of 5 of 200 (or however many posts I have). Displays correctly and works well, otherwise.
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Zach

August 10, 2010

Excellent! Works great, adds a sophisticated style to a site. Nice work, dudes!

For you others having conflict errors, try deactivating other plugins…check for jQuery library conflicts (versions, call instances, etc.)..and perhaps your theme needs to be updated, or the internal javascript (/includes) files are calling identical functions.
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Can

August 26, 2010

Plugin is not worked for me.
*i tried to disable all other plugins.
*i tried to change theme. (its not working even with the default “Twenty Ten” theme)

i think the main problem is at the code. All the sites that plugin worked perfectly, have code at their source code.

However, i can not see this code at my posts. You can check my blog at “http://biyorss.com”.

How can i add this code manually?
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Can

August 30, 2010

thanks for nothing..
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

September 4, 2010

Hello Can,

I haven’t checked this thread lastly. Are you still trying to add this plugin to your website?

After installation the plugin should be located at wp-content/plugins/upprev…

Is it there or still missing?

Sincerely
Grzegorz Krzyminski
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Goran Ani?i?

September 15, 2010

Hi, great plugin, but not work in WP 3.0.1
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

September 18, 2010

The lates version 1.3.4 has been just published. It should resolve some jQuery incompatibility issues and correct the number of post in categories.
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Zachary Lym

September 20, 2010

Great plugin Grzegorz, awesome blog too!

Any thoughts of integrating YARPP? I also have a lot of content on pages as opposed to blogs, it would be nice to enable it on those pages too.

Thanks for the awesome work!

-Zach Lym
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Jhay

October 2, 2010

I’m using the latest version of this plugin. But now that I’m using IntenseDebate the animated button appears immediately after the page load completes instead of appearing at the beginning of the comments section.

Any help here would be hot.
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

October 2, 2010

Hello Jhay,

I’m not sure how exactly the IntenseDebate works, but as far as I see it loads comments section little later, so upPrev is getting incorrect information about their position.

Here is some quick fix: WP admin > Settings > upPrev > change element selector from #comments to #idc-container

It should resolve that issue. Here is a preview: http://gkrzyminski.pl/jrocas/
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Jhay

October 2, 2010

Thanks! The issue has been resolved. I knew the element selector had to be changed, but couldn’t figure out exactly which tag to use. Being a total noob in PHP and CSS.
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ProfYeow

October 19, 2010

Thanks so much! very nice plugin
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JustWordpress

November 13, 2010

i had some problems too with the css but it can be easily fixed if you have some css skills! thanks for such a great plugin… it should be included in the next wordpress release!
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Tuan

November 13, 2010

This plugin doesn’t work properly on my site. It is always showing 0 of 0 articles. Could you check out my site?
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 16, 2010

Hello Tuan,

Your issue is quite unusual. You may notice that the number of posts is correctly displayed only for one category – Blogging Tips.

Somehow the sql query which is responsible for getting the number of posts in post’s categories fails.

I understand it happen even if you change a theme for a default one?
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Tuan

November 16, 2010

Hi Grzegorz,
This problem is not unusual, I see it happen on some other blogs too. I switched to the default theme but it couldn’t help.
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 17, 2010

Tuan,

The problem is that I don’t know how can I recreate this issue with my WordPress. I may simply need some testing to see what’s the issue exactly.

I’m wondering would it be possible to take this conversation outside here, and contact me directly via email (you can find it at my website: http://gkrzyminski.pl) and maybe providing me the access to the admin area, where I could test this plugin.

I will understand if you are not interested with sharing such information. Maybe we could even start from simply displaying ids of post’s categories. At upprev.php you can find the below statement at line #25:

$catIDs = substr($catIDs,0,-1);

Could you place the echo before it, so it’s going to look like this:

echo $catIDs = substr($catIDs,0,-1);

and save changes. After the upprev box will be displayed it should contain the list of ids for current post.
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 17, 2010

That list will be displayed somewhere in the footer, not in the upprev box itself.
Tuan

November 17, 2010

I’ve added the line and contacted you via email. Could you check it out for me?

Thanks.

Joe

November 15, 2010

Hi,

I love your plugin, how can I also show the_excerpt,
is there an easy way to do this ?
regards from La Palma, Canary Islands,Spain

Joe
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 17, 2010

Hello Joe,

You may try to replace upprev.php with this one: http://gkrzyminski.pl/support/upprev_excerpt_20101117.zip

Here is a working example: http://gkrzyminski.pl/wordpress/2010/09/donec-iaculis/

If there will be everything ok with it, we will include that modification as an option in the next update.
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Albin Sebastian

November 16, 2010

Im trying to use this plug-in in my site http://www.binbert.com . but its not working, I have changed my theme also. can you please help me ?
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 16, 2010

I will try to answer to all questions when I got a chance.. first this one:

@Albin Sebastian

upPrev requires wp_footer() function to be called. Currently your theme “Digital Statement” is missing it, so you may need to add it:

Edit footer.php (wp-content/themes/DS/) >> find the closing tag >> add just before it:

Or you can simply download a modified file from here: http://gkrzyminski.pl/support/ds-footer_20101116.zip

Please, make sure to make a copy of the original file in case of reversing changes.
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Albin Sebastian

November 17, 2010

Thank you @Grzegorz Krzyminski

I just added ” ” in my footer.php

It is working fine for me
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Joe

November 17, 2010

Hi,
I spent all day trying to incorporate the_excerpt and also a thumbnail, I got both showing, but they don’t show the_excertp and thumbnail form the next post, but from thre post which is actually showing on the page itself …. any ideas

regards

Joe
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 17, 2010

Joe, have you read my answer to your previous comment?

You can download this file, and check how it was resolved.
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 17, 2010

Oh, I’m sorry… now I see that that comment is awaiting moderation… possibly due to external linking.

Before you call the_excerpt() you need to call these two statements:

$post = get_post($postIDs[$i]->ID);
setup_postdata(get_post($postIDs[$i]->ID));

It’s going to setup post data to the previous post, then you can call the_excerpt();

After that you switch back to the current post with:

$post = get_post($upprev_currentPostID); setup_postdata(get_post($upprev_currentPostID));

I hope it clear up everything.
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 17, 2010

One more note…

You should rather use the above code after that line:

previous_post_link(‘%link’,'%title’, true);
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Joe

November 18, 2010

Hi Greg,
the download link doesnt seem to function

regards

Joe
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 18, 2010

Joe, I guess you are thinking about different link. The suggested one is still awaiting moderation.

There is some delay with it, so maybe you could write to me directly at my email. You will find it at my website.
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Joe

November 18, 2010

HI,

thank you very much got it to work, I did like this

previous_post_link(‘%link’,’%title’, true);
$post = get_post($postIDs[$i]->ID);
setup_postdata(get_post($postIDs[$i]->ID));
the_excerpt();

is that okay ? because i did not put this

$post = get_post($upprev_currentPostID); setup_postdata(get_post($upprev_currentPostID));

underneath, because it works great

best regards from La Palma Canary Islands

Joe
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 18, 2010

Yes, it should be ok.

That second part is simply some secure statement, for other plugins which could be called after upPrev, to set post data back to currently displayed post.

But if there is everything ok, you don’t need to bother about it.

tim

November 17, 2010

Hi:)
why does it only show test but no thumbnails?
Cool plug ….
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Arun WIlson

November 17, 2010

I am using this plugin in my blog http://www.cybervally.com. Its working fine. Nice plugin . Thanks to Grzegorz Krzyminski
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

November 18, 2010

Glad you like it. One note, we are both with Jason Pelker authors of the plugin.
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Dave

November 18, 2010

Hi. Great plugin! I want to donate!

QUESTION: how do I incorporate related posts from <a href="http://chipsandtv.com/articles/wordpress-related-posts"this simple related plugin into your plugin? I am not good at programming.

I just want a simple 4-5 lines of related posts or even adding more lines from similar category. Just having 1 entry by default is rather boring..
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GT

November 19, 2010

Terrific plugin – although I plan to dink around with it a bit for the sole reason that I want the flyin to happen from the bottom left of the screen, not the bottom right – so I’ll edit upprev_js.php and change some of the offset() and animate() calls

It worked perfectly the minute I instaleld it, and does exactly what it says on the tin. Great stuff.

Cheers

GT
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DiTesco

December 4, 2010

Great plugin. Just installed it on my site and would like to know how can I change the “color” of the links. I want it to blend with my sites color scheme. Thanks and BTW, any chance there is a way for the plugin to grab an image from a post and display a thumbnail? That would be awesome. just thinking of giving a tid bit more of liveliness
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Kimberly Castleberry

December 22, 2010

I’m also running the wibiya toolbar and the upPrev ends up behind it.

Simply editing: upprev-nytimes-style-next-post-jquery-animated-fly-in-button/upprev_flyout.css

#upprev_box {

Setting:
bottom:40px;

Solves this pretty nicely. Would be nice to have an optional setting in the admin area for bottom padding but this works until the next update overwrites it at least, thanks!
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Oli

January 7, 2011

This plugin is not working over on my site http://www.thisisfreelance.com, I really do like the look of this but it’s no use if it is not working!
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Scott

January 15, 2011

Hey, great plug-in! I am a regular NYTimes reader and was planning to write a plugin to do that cool “next up” pop-up. You saved me all the trouble.

The only problem I ran into was that for page optimization, I load all of my JavaScript at the end of the page rather than in the head element. I modified the plugin settings page to allow the user to specify whether to load the plugin JS in the header or the footer, then modified the PHP accordingly. I’m happy to give you the code to review and incorporate if you like. No worries if not.

Thanks,
Scott
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Dylan

January 17, 2011

Love the sleek look of the plugin. Works great. I’m wondering if there’s a way to have it suggest the “next” post rather than the previous one. It seems a little self-defeating if people are reading articles in order. Cheers, nice work
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Dylan

January 17, 2011

Scratch that comment, my bad. I had my brain on backwards. It does show the next post
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LuigiO

January 22, 2011

Hi

Nice Plugin. but if i check the website speed i see the upprev_js.php have the longest respons time. On our site more then 500ms. on your site >1700ms!

check with FF and YSlow in Firebug -> Components -> js

best regards
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Aryeh

January 23, 2011

Hey Guys,
Love the plugin – how you I make it activate higher up on the scroll bar?
Thanks,
Aryeh
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

February 15, 2011

Hello Aryeh,

Try: WP admin > Settings > upPrev > Offset
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Richard

January 23, 2011

This looks like an amazing plugin but it is not working at all!! it isn’t even displaying… any advice???
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Dennis

February 8, 2011

Sadly this is not working for me at all. Im not getting an error, or anything displayed incorrectly… it simply does nothing.

Any help would be appreciated!

Dennis
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Matt

February 17, 2011

Any support for this plugin as it does not work on Tekgoblin.com?
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Sanford

February 22, 2011

Great work guys. Love it.
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Avinash

February 22, 2011

Hey Great Plugin, if there was a way to just get only the next post from the 1st category if a posts is filed under multiple categories ?? and not show the remaining categories in the “More In ,……”

It would also be a great feature if one could scroll the next and prev posts in the upprev box itself.
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Artem Russakovskii

March 2, 2011

Hey guys,

I like your plugin, but on a high-traffic site (100K+ daily uniques), unfortunately I had to turn it off. The file upprev_js.php which gets called every time just to pull down some Javascript is not getting cached by wp-super-cache because it’s PHP. It would be a lot better if it generated the .js with the right options when the options were updated, rather than on the fly.

Thanks.
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Jason Pelker

March 2, 2011

Help us by submitting a patch: jason@item-9.com.
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Artem Russakovskii

March 7, 2011

While I am a developer, unfortunately, I don’t have time to spend on modifying the plugin, but you are welcome to take a look at WP-Minify – it does something similar with writing a configuration file and has excellent code style overall.
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

March 5, 2011

upPrev version 1.4.0 is now available: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/upprev-nytimes-style-next-post-jquery-animated-fly-in-button/
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Anil

March 9, 2011

Hi, great plugin but it’s not displaying thumbnails at all. When I select that option, everything below the categories disappears. Any ideas on how I might be able to correct this?

Thanks,
-Anil
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

March 14, 2011

Hello Anil,

Do you use upPrev with a foxnomad.com or with a different website, because I don’t see a plugin there at all?
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Anil

March 15, 2011

I was using it with foxnomad.com but took it down for the time being. I can put it up however if you’d like to look at the effect.

Thanks,
-Anil
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

March 15, 2011

Yes, I would like to investigate this. Let me know after you enable this. If you wish you can write directly to me via email.
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Jhay

March 15, 2011

I just upgraded to version 1.4.0, but it’s ‘stuck’ at showing the latest post from one category even if the post you’re viewing doesn’t belong to that same category.
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Jay

March 16, 2011

Yup – I’m having the same problem – showing posts from an unrelated cat.
WP 3.1 & Plugin version 1.4
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

March 18, 2011

Hello Jhay,

The problem is, that this issue is related to php and it’s not possible for me to analyse without a direct access.

Somehow setup_postdata is not retrieving the currently displayed post, but you are getting completely different one.

hmm…

I want to check one thing:

file: upprev.php, line #72 shows: if (is_single()) {
try to replace it with: if (is_single() && !isset($upprev_currentPostID)) {

Let me know does it changed anything. I think it can be that.
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Jhay

March 18, 2011

I tried what you suggested but it returns with the following error message:

“Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in /home/jrocas/public_html/wp-content/plugins/upprev-nytimes-style-next-post-jquery-animated-fly-in-button/upprev.php on line 72″

This is the first I had this kind of error.
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

March 18, 2011

Are you sure you haven’t placed additional “;”?

You can also download this single modified file from: http://gkrzyminski.pl/support/upprev-current-id.zip
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Jhay

March 18, 2011

Thanks! The modified file fixed it for me.

Jay

March 19, 2011

FYI – I too was having the ‘stuck category’ problem and that modified file fixed it.
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Seth

March 23, 2011

Great plugin! We’re using it on some new sites that launch next week. Just going through the process of optimizing the sites now and we’re seeing that the plugin’s .js loads on all pages, not just story pages. Is there a way to set it to load only on single story pages?
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P Sharma

April 14, 2011

Well, I would have loved to put this plugin to action on many of my sites but the wordpress theme I am using is just not showing this plugin in action…I mean, the related posts are not appearing at all. I tried deactivating all other plugins to figure out any plugin incompatibility but no luck.

I am using “Turn out Mag” WordPress theme. Website is http://www.techpluto.com Any help or suggestion to get this plugin to work would be highly appreciated.

Thanks.
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ariff

May 16, 2011

Can you update this plugin so that it would not show on my site’s mobile version?
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Zahid

May 21, 2011

This plugin doesn’t work on my site either. I am using Disqus for comments, can that be a reason?
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M'Lou

May 25, 2011

Love this plugin. I’m using in on both of my entertainment sites.

The only problem I’m having is that most of my articles have an image in the very top with caption text and the plugin is pulling the code from the caption text and displaying that at the excerpt, instead of the actual text from the article. To readers it looks bad – like gibberish. Is there a way to get around this happening? A way for it to skip over grabbing code like that?

Example page: http://www.mishmashmagazine.com/2011/music/free-mp3-idiot-glee/

Thanks!
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Adam

May 26, 2011

This plugin is fantastic — thank you!!

Right now, for a given page, the post that shows upprev is always the same. In other words, different pages have different posts show up in upprev, but if you reload a particular page the same post is always in upprev, and every person who goes to the specific page will see the same post in upprev.

How can I randomize it, so that different visitors see different things in upprev? What line(s) should I add to the PHP to do it?

Thanks again!!
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Adam

June 8, 2011

I love this plugin — thank you!!

One question: How do I display a random post, rather than the next post? Can still keep the requirement that it be in the same category(ies). I’ve experimented with the rand function, but get fatal errors with every attempt.

Thanks again!
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Adam

June 8, 2011

As far as I’ve been able to get is adding this right before the echo “More in” line:
$i = rand(0,count($posts));

That manages to randomize the thumbnail (and where you go if you click on the thumbnail), but the post title (and its link) does not randomize, so you usually end up with a mismatch of thumbnail and title.

I’d really appreciate your help, and I’m sure lots of others would love it if upPrev had a built-in feature to allow you to choose random vs ordered!
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Adam

June 8, 2011

Same with changing ” “orderby” => “date”, ” to “rand” instead… just changes the thumbnail, not the title
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

July 22, 2011

You can keep your change with orderby, but you need to modify one more thing inside upprev.php:

At line #50 you can find: previous_post_link(‘%link’,'%title’, true);

(Below code contains html tags, so I’m not sure is it going to be added here correctly, but it’s very similar to line #48)

You need to replace it with:
echo “ID) . “‘>”.$posts[$i]->post_title.”“;
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

July 22, 2011

echo “<a href=’” . get_permalink($posts[$i]->ID) . “‘>”.$posts[$i]->post_title.”</a>”;

tinidisco

July 7, 2011

Hello,

Today I update my wordpress 3.1 to 3.2 and this plugin does not work after update
Can you help for me?
thanks
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finid

July 20, 2011

I have the latest WP (3.2.1) and it’s working like before. See it in action at http://linuxbsdos.com/ask/2011/07/kaptan/
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Cs Orban

July 8, 2011

Hello,
Great plugin, I love it !
But when I update wordpress 3.1 to 3.2 , after I don’t see animated-button. This pugin working wp 3.2 ?
thanks
Csaba
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

July 22, 2011

@Cs Orban

Please, send your WP address. These are single cases, not an overall failure, so there is a need to check your concrete website.
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finid

July 14, 2011

Excellent plugin.

I’m using it at http://linuxbsdos.com and http://linuxbsdos.com/ask.

One request: Is it possible to add the ability to show more than one post link?
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Mark

July 19, 2011

Great job on the plugin. If I can just make a suggestion: Ability to turn off Categories.
Thanks again.
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

July 22, 2011

@Mark

I’m not sure what exactly you want to do. Do you want to exclude some categories from the results, or maybe you want to hide the whole line “More in …”.

If you want to do the second thing, you can achieve this by modifying upprev.css. You need to add one more attribute to #upprev_box h6, which is display: none;

#upprev_box h6 {
…
display: none;
}
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MikeD

July 23, 2011

I’m having some difficulties display the pop up. I activated the plug in and in my footer area I get the below message and the pop up won’t appear.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 82 bytes) in /home/meadmin/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1405

Here’s the link to one of my post pages: http://bit.ly/nj0jX0

Thanks in advance!
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MikeD

August 5, 2011

Someone, Anyone?
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Rocky

August 5, 2011

Love this plugin and am using it on my site.

So far, I will be using it with my own content.

My website needs to be read in chronological order, so a link to a previous post is not desired. I am not a coder, but I tried to play around with the plugin code to change it to display the next (newer) post, with minimal success. Not really knowing what I was doing, I was able to change the code so that the title of the next (newer) post display, but the thumbnail image and excerpt were not from the correct post.
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Rocky

August 5, 2011

Oh, it would also be nice if the plugin ignored short code.

Thanks for your work!
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ivan

August 13, 2011

In this theme is not working plugin((
http://www.theme-junkie.com/themes/channel/
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MaggieB

August 15, 2011

I saw this on several sites and have been hunting for it…stumbled across it today!
I really love it! However, while it shows up fine on my PC it does not work on my iPad.
Is it Flash driven that it disappears? Any ideas? A large majority of my audience access the site through iOS devices so I am always cognizant of how it looks to them.

Thanks!
Maggie
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Jason Pelker

September 3, 2011

Nope, it’s not flash. It’s going to be tricky on mobile devices–sorry!
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MaggieB

September 17, 2011

No need to apologize… just glad I stumbled upon it!
As to the other plugin using the name of yours… some nice options, but don’t like that he is piggybacking… so I’ll stick with yours!
Thx for a nice plugin!
~Maggie
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Marcin

September 10, 2011

Improved version: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/upprev/ much more options. Cotrol margins; custom type posts. Prefix & sufix for ulrs (tracking).
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Jason Pelker

September 16, 2011

We should probably combine code + downloads. There’s no reason to carry two of the same plugin on the repository.
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MaggieB

September 16, 2011

Should we watch for our WP backend to say there is an upgrade available?

Thx!
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Jason Pelker

September 16, 2011

If you don’t want to combine codes, though, you need to change the name of your plugin.

Although you’re free to borrow and reuse code, you can’t take an open-source product’s name; it’s a clear copyright violation.
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Marcin

September 17, 2011

If you want, I will add You to upPrev as a autors, to give You a ability to change and commit. I don’t take a name, only a part of name. “upPrev” is based on “upPrev: NYTimes Style “Next Post” and have theire code, but I think we don’t need any combine. Downloads is supported by wordpress.org and I don’t offer any other place to download.
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Grzegorz Krzyminski

September 17, 2011

Marcin wrote: “I don’t take a name, only a part of name. “upPrev” is based on “upPrev: NYTimes Style “Next Post””

You didn’t take just a part of the name.. you took the most important part of it.. the one which make this plugin unique.. the part which can easily distinguish this plugin from others. With such politic you are providing misleading information to every single user.. when the first time I saw some post, I thought that Jason changed repository, but not, it wasn’t that.. someone simply thought – why not to use the popularity of a current plugin and create an extended copy of it, with a shorter name.. shortened to the word, which is generally meaningless, and it was created for the purpose of a plugin.. why didn’t you choose a NYTimes word? Everything what stands after the upPrev is rather a description, than the name itself.

I would say that upPrev has nothing special. At many different websites supported by many different CMS you can find similar functionality. I guess upPrev was the first solution which tried to mimic that functionality in WordPress, and I guess it’s quite popular right now, but I think the popularity didn’t come just like that. It was some time ago, but I remember, that after launching it, information appeared at many different sources. I think Jason put some hard work to popularize it.

Currently someone (you) appeared, revised the code and added some extra options, took the most important part of the name, and he think everything is all right. No, it’s not… from one simple reason – the name. upPrev will remain upPrev.. currently it doesn’t matter what description you will add, people remember it as upPrev.

I don’t know.. maybe we should wait until one from your solution become really popular? I hope that the name won’t be a single word.. then we gonna shorten it to the most unique one, we will add few more features, and we are going to advertise it on every page where we can find your comments. How are you going to feel?

You should think about that.
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Jason Pelker

September 17, 2011

Here are our best options:

a) We give you access to the original plugin. You can update anything you want and add your name to the authors (feel free to place your name first).

You then remove your plugin from the repository. First, you may want to tell your users your plugin is being discontinued, though, and point to the original plugin as the future product.

b) Change the name of your plugin. PrevUp? Or preferably, something else entirely?

c) Merge the two plugins. I don’t know how this is done within the repository, but if there’s a way, it’s probably the best solution.

More information on forking: Wikipedia – Forking Open Source Software.

Next time you want to contribute to a plugin, just ask. Rarely will an open-source project tell you “no”. Forking is generally seen as a waste of time and energy. It only makes sense when the developers are MIA.

No hard feelings, though. Let’s get this issue solved quickly and happily for everyone.
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luchosar

November 28, 2011

Ideas for next version:
1 – option to omit the category appears
2 – Option to write text as : this interests you …
2 – The color of the title

Thanks, great job!
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James Wiese

December 29, 2011

Dear Sirs:

I, too, have noticed and appreciated the NYT flyout, and it is good to see something similar available. My question: Can this be implemented on a regular website, i.e. not a WordPress blog?

Thanks! James Wiese
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Lord Tuetanus

January 1, 2012

I doesnt work, I simple dunno why, Installed all set and… nothing I started using SimpleReach Slide but I really prefer yours.

Im using wp3.3 and its the first plug in I try that do not work
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theComplex

January 15, 2012

I love this plugin but is there any way to stop it from functioning on my mobile site? It covers content and readers are complaining.
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Grace

January 29, 2012

I installed the plug in and it is absolutely gorgeous and does exactly what it’s supposed to do. There is one small problem, however, posts in some of my categories will not display when you click on them individually, you just get a blank page. When I deactivate the plug in the problem resolves itself.

I would really like to use your plug in but can’t as long as this problem continues. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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