Display the contents of the latest post

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(@pauldoeswordpress)

9 years, 11 months ago

Hello,
I was hoping to use this plugin to just display the latest post in a widget. I’ve tweaked my functions.php file and added a shortcode to a text widget, but it only displays the post’s header, not its content. And it’s in a really small font. I guess I can tweak the CSS quite easily to change the font, but how do I make it display the content of the post?

The documentation for this plugin is almost non-existent; the header image on this plugin page hints that somewhere there is a “Basic Tutorial” for this plugin, but no such tutorial seems to exist! I’ve searched through the not-very-helpful single wiki page and your website to no avail. Am I looking in the wrong places?

Thanks,

Paul

https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/

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(@pauldoeswordpress)

I went ahead and uninstalled this plugin and found something online that I adapted for my needs; it creates a shortcode called [newestpost]:

function wp_recentpost($atts, $content=null){
$getpost = get_posts( array('number' => 1) );
$getpost = $getpost[0];
$return = "<h1>" . $getpost->post_title . "</h1>" . $getpost->post_content . "…";
$return .= "<br /><a href='" . get_permalink($getpost->ID) . "'><em>read more →</em></a>";
return $return;
}
add_shortcode('newestpost', 'wp_recentpost');

– Paul

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