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1. holyyakker
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am looking to create a mini-loop as part of a mostly Static page. However, for the purposes of CMS I want the rest of the page (mostly a welcome message) to be something that can be edited by another user.

   If I were to create a page called "Welcome Message" and in the page.php Template added this code:
   

   <?php
   if(is_page('Welcome Message'))
   {
   $how_many=5; //How many posts do you want to show
   require_once('wp-config.php'); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>
   
   <ol id="whats-new">
   <?
   $news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code>,<code>post_title</code> FROM $wpdb->posts
   WHERE <code>post_type</code>=\"post\" AND <code>post_status</code>=\"publish\" ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $how_many");
   foreach($news as $np){
   printf ("<li><a href=\"index.php?p=%s\">%s</a></li>", $np->ID,$np->post_title);
   }
   }?>

   Do you think that would do what I wanted?

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Might be easier to use this plugin:
   http://aralbalkan.com/1016

   Also, a recent posts plugin such as http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-plugin/ will do this.

   Otherwise, this code in a Page Template could work:
   

   <?php
   $posts=get_posts('post_type=post&showposts=3');
   if ($posts) {
   foreach($posts as $post) {
   setup_postdata($post);
   ?>
   <p><?php the_time('m.d.y') ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
   <?php }
   }
   ?>

3. holyyakker
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   For the record the code I tried did work - however I'm going to see if the plugins and see if they allow me greater flexibility.

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