Posted 5 months ago #
I'm trying to pull the excerpt of a post and stick it in the sidebar. It contains the client's contact info, so it should be up there on every page. I'm using code I found in the codex, but it's not populating. I'm new to php, so I have no idea what I'm missing. Here's the code:
<div id="the-basics">
<p><?php
$my_id = 79;
$post_id_79 = get_post($my_id);
$title = $post_id_79->post_excerpt;
?></p>
</div> <!-- end the-basics div -->
Posted 5 months ago #
This was a very helpful link, thanks. It helped me to solve a much larger problem on the site I was working on, which was styling two categories differently on the index page. But now I lost all the content in the sidebar! Here are the two loops on the index page:
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- If the post is in the category we want to exclude,
we simply pass to the next post. -->
<?php if (in_category('1')||in_category('3')||in_category('7')) continue; ?>
<!-- do stuff -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
<!-- Get the four menu items for display -->
<?php query_posts('category_name=menu-item&showposts=4');
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
<!-- do more stuff -->
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
<!-- REALLY stop The Loop. -->
<?php endif; ?>I pulled out all the template stuff to keep this from getting too long. Any idea why would this mess up the sidebar?
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