Recent posts (Show category name & Exclude a category)

  • Resolved atdheh

    (@atdheh)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    Hello, I’m showing recent posts with this:

    <ul><li><h2>Recent posts</h2><ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('title_li=&type=postbypost&limit=15'); ?>

    This code to me only display my 15 recent post titles (linked):
    Postname1
    Postname2
    …
    Postname15

    1.
    Now I want to display category name too, example:
    category – postname1
    category – postname2
    …
    category – postname3

    2.
    How to exclude posts from a category, example to exclude posts from category 88.

    Thank you.

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    This might be easier:

    <?php
    $args=array(
      'showposts'=>15,
      'category__not_in' => array(88),
      'caller_get_posts'=>1
    );
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo '15 recent Posts';
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <p> <?php the_category(', '); ?> -
      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
      endwhile;
    } //if ($my_query)
  wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>
    Thread Starter atdheh

    (@atdheh)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    MichaelH thank you, its working perfectly.

    But I have one question more:
    Its anyway to add this in sidebar?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    That could go in the sidebar template (probably sidebar.php) or even in a PHP Code Widget

    trefethen

    (@trefethen)

    14 years ago

    Is there an easy way for a non PHP guy like me to exclude post from certain categories while showing the recent posts of another category in the sidebar?

    I appreciate all the help you can provide.

    ~ John

    muymalestado

    (@muymalestado)

    14 years ago

    Is this what atdheh is asking ?

    trefethen may also be asking the same question I have – in the Recent Posts sidebar widget is it possible to exclude posts of a specified category?

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