Yesterday I was trying to get query_posts to exclude a category, but couldn't get it to work. I assumed this was as I was using the asides as outlined here which don't seem to use the WP1.5 loop. With a bit of trial and error, I think I have got something that will work with the classic template and allow query-posts to be used.
Questions are:
1. Should query_posts work with the asides instructions linked to above?
2. If not, is it worth me testing further and documenting so that asides and query_posts can live happily together?
Adding to the questions, does anyone know what the follow code (from adding asides page) actually does.
<?php
if ($posts)
{
function stupid_hack($str)
{
return preg_replace('|</ul>s*<ul class="linklog">|', '', $str);
}
ob_start('stupid_hack');
foreach($posts as $post)
{
start_wp();
?>
As far as I can tell the asides work without it. It must do something though.
replaces <ul class="linklog"> with nothing.
Thanks, now I just have to figure out why that is useful :)
Result! http://photomatt.net/2004/05/19/asides/
As far as I can understand it it will combine multiple asides so
<ul class="linklog">
<li>aside 1</li>
</ul>
<ul class="linklog">
<li>aside 2</li>
</ul>
becomes
<ul class="linklog">
<li>aside 1</li>
<li>aside 2</li>
</ul>
Who knows, someone might find this useful to know. Now to answer 1 and 2 myself aswell :)
