customizing recent posts
Im working on my first wordpress blog and trying to avoid plugins if at all possible for a lot of what doesn’t really … Read more
recent-posts
How to hide a post from ‘Recent Posts’ widget?
I’m trying to hide a post from the ‘Recent Posts’ widget in the sidebar. I know I can do this with the ‘Special … Read more
Show recent published posts
I want to list recent published posts of my wp blog and exclude certain posts of some categories. The following code works fine, … Read more
Add thumbnail to recent posts widget using filters
I want to add thumbnail to WordPress default recent posts widget, and I want to do it using any available filter. Is there … Read more
Display Custom Post Type in Recent Posts
I have the following problem: I have created a custom post type matratze and currently besides the custom posts no other posts exist. … Read more
Empty excerpt using wp_get_recent_posts
I have this simple shortcode to display the last posts with it’s title and except: add_shortcode(‘latest3’, function(){ $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( array( ‘numberposts’ => … Read more
How to exclude categories from recent posts, recent comments & category widgets?
I use the bellow function (thanks to @helgatheviking!) to exclude categories from the wordpress loop. It works very well – posts of selected … Read more
How to target the default Recent Posts and Recent Comments widgets with pre_get_posts?
I added the following to my functions.php: add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘keyl_get_emp_posts’); function keyl_get_emp_posts($query) { if ($query->is_main_query()) $query->set(‘post_type’, ’employee’); } and so far it’s effectively filtering … Read more
Display all comments or recent comments per user on author page
I have author pages for each author and I want to see all of their comments (or all of their recent comments) if … Read more
Querying post from a multisite network
I am working on a multisite blog network where I have to display recent post on my home page, 10 post per page … Read more