Hueman Dynamic Tabs

christinamaria
(@christinamaria)

7 years, 6 months ago

Hi again!
I want to display random blog posts in my right hand sidebar using the Hueman Theme. Hueman Dynamic Tabs displays a perfect layout with thumbnail and blog title. How do I get it to display them randomly?
See this link http://qsign.se/
The top of the right sidebar displays the layout I want (thumbnail to the left and blog title to the right) but I can’t control how the posts are displayed. In the bottom part of the right sidebar I have tried using Category Posts Sidebar Widget, but this layout doesn’t display well and I can’t control the size of the headings (also the fontsize of the headings change when I navigate the website – very odd).

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bdbrown
(@bdbrown)

7 years, 6 months ago
Hi christinamaria.

1. Using your host file manager (cPanel) or FTP, create a /functions/widgets folder in your child theme.

2. Copy the parent theme /functions/widgets/alx-tabs.php template file to the same folder in your child theme.

3. In the child theme alx-tabs.php file change the ‘orderby’ parameter for the Popular Posts query from ‘comment-count’ to ‘rand’:
```
<?php
	$popular = new WP_Query( array(
		'post_type'		=> array( 'post' ),
		'showposts'		=> $instance['popular_num'],
		'cat'			=> $instance['popular_cat_id'],
		'ignore_sticky_posts'	=> true,
		'orderby'		=> 'rand',
		'order'			=> 'dsc',
		'date_query' => array(
			array(
				'after' => $instance['popular_time'],
			),
		),
	) );
?>
```
Reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

If you don’t currently have a child theme you can install one using the instructions here:
http://docs.presscustomizr.com/article/239-using-a-child-theme-with-hueman
Thread Starter christinamaria
(@christinamaria)

7 years, 5 months ago

Thankyou bdbrown! I have now managed to fix it – with your eminent help!

bdbrown
(@bdbrown)

7 years, 5 months ago

You’re welcome; glad you got it working.
Heiko
(@nortexxx)

7 years, 3 months ago
Is there a possibility to ADD a random Tab for Hueman Tabs instead of replacing existing $popular?
I want to use both of it ^^

by the way: I created all the needed parts as you explained but the random order (even when I edit the $popular section) does not work. What am I doing wrong?

thx in advance
- This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by Heiko.