Automatic change of posts in an array!?

  • do77

    (@do77)


    17 years, 3 months ago

    I feature 3 specials each in four “Featured sections” on my homepage. Right now I am doing it like this
    <?php $recent = new WP_Query( array( "post__in" => array(419,1409,1091) ) ); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
    The thing is that I have to change the featured posts every day manually by putting in different ID’s. That’s not very elegant and it’s just pretty annoying since I have four “Featured Sections” on my homepage with 3 featured articles each.

    Is there a way to turn this process into an automatic one? I don’t add posts every day to the categories so “grabbing the most recent posts” would not help. I was basically thinking if I can add a “pool” of post ID’s somewhere from where the featured section grabs different ID’s every day … or something like that. I really don’t know if that is possible.

    Let me know if anyone has an idea what I can do about it.

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter do77

    (@do77)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    anyone an idea?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Either use categories, tags, or custom fields to specify where the posts are to appear and use one of these parameters with your query instead of the post__in array:

    cat=
    or
    tag=
    or
    meta_key=
    meta_value=

    The article, query_posts(), describes those parameters/arguments.

    Thread Starter do77

    (@do77)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Hi MichaelH,

    I used categories at the beginning but the problem was that always the most recent posts were featured then. The problem is that I don’t add posts in some featured categories very often thus the section would show always the same posts. Thats why I was wondering if there is a way to automatically display different posts out of a specific category every day?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Just give those posts a 2nd category, just for the day. Then tomorrow, delete the category from those posts and assign the category to a new set of posts.

    Thread Starter do77

    (@do77)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks MichaelH … I will try that and see if it works for me!

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