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1. skina
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi,

   I would like to generate a Tag Cloud on my static home page which contains only the tags of a given category. I was thinking something along the lines of:

   wp_tag_cloud('category=news');

   Is it possible?

   What's the best method of showing the most recent posts of a given category?

2. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   "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? ;)

3. skina
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   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)

4. Indojepang
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   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!

5. ThreeVisual
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'd also like to see this function, anyone able to build a plugin that would allow it?

6. zyrq
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   +1 for this

7. desmondo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Me too!

8. webgirl
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Sounds like a simple and great function that should be added.

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