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1. danaldinho
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hey,

   I have my blog setup as: http://www.lilwaynehq.com

   Now when you leave my blog and go to a page of my website (such as http://www.lilwaynehq.com/lil-wayne, I would like to have a "Latest News" kind of widget in my sidebar, but I want it to be from my "latest-news" category from my Blog.

   How would I do this?

   So like, on a page of my website, in the sidebar, would be a list of 5 news articles linking to my blog. But it would automatically update as soon as I make a post on my blog.

   Thanks a lot and I appreciate it :)

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You could pull the Rss feed from your blog into your site using something like MagpieRSS.

3. danaldinho
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Nope, there is an actually way of doing it, I've seen it done before.

   Its just some php code, that will show the latest 5 posts from that "certain category" and you can place that php code on your website.

   It actually might be a plugin, but I'm not sure.

   So does anyone know?

   Thanks a lot and appreciate it :)

4. danaldinho
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Anyone got any ideas?

5. drmanry
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Something like this should get you started...

   // Show the last 5 posts in the latest_news category.
     <?php query_posts('category_name=latest_news&showposts=5'); ?>
   
     <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
    <div class="entry">
      <?php the_content(); ?>
    </div>
   
     <?php endwhile;?>

6. danaldinho
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Alright mate, thanks alot, that worked fine in my blog: http://www.lilwaynehq.com :)

   But is there a way for me to embed that into my website's pages which are not WordPress as that is what I mainly wanted, but this is a great start :)

   Thanks.

   Oh and this is the code I used:

   <div class="sidebar2">
   <h4 class="widgettitle">Latest Lil Wayne News</h4>
   <?php query_posts('category_name=lil-wayne-news&showposts=5'); ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <ul>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   </ul>
   <?php endwhile;?>
   </div>

7. danaldinho
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Anyone got any ideas how I could use this on my un-wordpress website, but once you click on the links, it takes you to my blog :)

   Thanks

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