Im working on my first wordpress blog and trying to avoid plugins if at all possible for a lot of what doesn’t really need to have a plugin. I am slightly familiar with php ( I don’t understand it but I know where to put it and what file should go where). I understand the … Read more
I’m trying to hide a post from the ‘Recent Posts’ widget in the sidebar. I know I can do this with the ‘Special Recent Posts’ plugin, but that plugin really uses up a lot of resources. I’ve got the ‘WP Hide Post’ plugin, but that doesn’t hide a post from the recent posts widget. So … Read more
I want to list recent published posts of my wp blog and exclude certain posts of some categories. The following code works fine, 10 recent posts are listed and posts in the listed categories are ignored. However, draft posts are listed as well. $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => ’10’, ‘tax_query’ => array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, … Read more
I want to add thumbnail to WordPress default recent posts widget, and I want to do it using any available filter. Is there any filter know to this subject/topic 2 Answers 2 Here’s one way to do it through the the_title filter. We can limit the scope to the Recent Posts widget, by initialize it … Read more
I have the following problem: I have created a custom post type matratze and currently besides the custom posts no other posts exist. Hence, nothing is being displayed under the recent posts. The custom post type looks like the following: [custom post] My recent posts do not get displayed: [main homepage] I tried the following: … Read more
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’ => 3, ‘orderby’ => ‘post_date’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ ), ARRAY_A); $output=”<h2>Latest posts</h2>”; foreach ( $recent_posts as $recent ) { $output .= ‘<h3>’.$recent[“post_title”].'</h3>’; $output .= $recent[“post_excerpt”]; } return … Read more
I use the bellow function (thanks to @helgatheviking!) to exclude categories from the wordpress loop. It works very well – posts of selected categories are excluded from the loop on the main blog listing page, from category listing pages and from archives, but not from Recent Posts and not from Recent Comments in sidebar. How … Read more
I added the following to my functions.php: add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘keyl_get_emp_posts’); function keyl_get_emp_posts($query) { if ($query->is_main_query()) $query->set(‘post_type’, ’employee’); } and so far it’s effectively filtering out the search results. The default widgets Recent Posts and Recent Comments aren’t budging, though. What gives? 2 Answers 2 pre_get_posts is executed before each and every query. Your $query->is_main_query() is making … Read more
I have author pages for each author and I want to see all of their comments (or all of their recent comments) if I click on their nickname. How can I do this? I tried the beneath code, but that does not show the unique comments per user… It just outputs all recent comments from … Read more
I am working on a multisite blog network where I have to display recent post on my home page, 10 post per page navigation. I did implement it using wpdb object with one complex sql statement. I got blog ids us get_blog_list function looped through each blog id list and generated a one single sql … Read more
