How to create a category post widget?

  • dsh2016

    (@dsh2016)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hello. I’m an old friend of wordpress but new to ‘coding’

    I found this from a year ago – Show posts from a specific category

    Hi Alex,

    Is it possible to show posts from a specific category on the sidebar?

    Acosmin

    If you are not using the recent posts widget open ..acosmin/widgets/custom-recent-posts-widget.php and bellow
    ‘posts_per_page’ => $recent_posts_number,
    add this line:

    ‘cat’ => 4,

    where 4 represent your category id.

    After that eneble the recent posts widget

    Now I looked in the theme editor but am unable to find anything called “acosmin/widgets/custom-recent-posts-widget.php ”

    or

    “‘posts_per_page’ => $recent_posts_number”

    which i can alter (by putting in ‘cat’ => 4….

    Can anyone help me please?

    I want to have a specific category of posts in the sidebar but only want to use Acosmin’s great widgets.

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter dsh2016

    (@dsh2016)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Ok I figured out I had to edit the php file in C-Panel..

    ..and put ‘cat’ =>3 below the line mentioned above. 3 being the number of the category name as far as I can tell.

    class AC_Recent_Posts_Widget extends WP_Widget {

    function AC_Recent_Posts_Widget() {
    // Settings
    $widget_ops = array( ‘classname’ => ‘ac_recent_posts_widget’, ‘description’ => ‘Displays your most recent articles. With or without thumbnails’ );

    // Create the widget
    $this->WP_Widget( ‘ac_recent_posts_widget’, __(‘ACOSMIN: Recent Posts’, ‘acosmin’), $widget_ops );
    }

    function widget( $args, $instance ) {
    extract( $args );

    // Widget Settings
    $title = apply_filters(‘widget_title’, $instance[‘title’] );
    $recent_posts_number = $instance[‘recent_posts_number’];
    $hide_recent_thumbs = isset( $instance[‘hide_recent_thumbs’] ) ? $instance[‘hide_recent_thumbs’] : false;

    echo $before_widget;

    // Widget Front End Output
    if ( $title ) {
    echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
    }

    $args = array(
    ‘posts_per_page’ => $recent_posts_number,
    ‘cat’ => 3,
    ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1

    But after loading the widget and saving, all i get is a sentence under the recent posts widget that says “No popular posts available!”

    Any ideas?

    thanks

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