“I would like to generate a Tag Cloud on my static home page which contains only the tags of a given category.“
Yikes.
I know of nothing at present which does this, so what you’re looking at is having to create a (complicated, but doable) query that would collect those tags.
“What’s the best method of showing the most recent posts of a given category?“
Just visit the category. Or is this a trick question? ;)
Thread Starter
skina
(@skina)
Thanks for the reply.
I’ll have a crack at that query and let you know how I get on.
The second question wasn’t a trick but I figured it out (actually, I read the documentation properly). All I needed to do was:
$postslist = get_posts('category=7&numberposts=10&order=DESC&orderby=post_date');
if (true === !is_array($postslist)) :
?><li>No Posts</li><?
else : foreach ($postslist as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
?><li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li><?
endforeach;
endif;
The above code shows the 10 most recent posts from my selected category (id=7) on my sidebar (i.e. on any page on the site)
wp_tag_cloud('category_name=news');
It would be a Excellent function if it exist! Unfortunately it’s not!
Waiting for this to happen too.. 🙂
Meanwhile the solution I know is using this pluginhttp://thedeadone.net/software/tdo-tag-fixes-wordpress-plugin/
It works in my test with WP 2.5
wp_tag_cloud('category_name=news');
Yes! I WANT THIS!
I’d also like to see this function, anyone able to build a plugin that would allow it?
Sounds like a simple and great function that should be added.