derekdbess

I’ve already done this, but the idea is that some widgets we’d like to display the title, and other we wouldn’t.

And I’m still creating the theme from scratch. I’m new to wordpress so it’s been a fun adventure thus far.

Would there be a way to do it through the functions file?

This is what I have for one of the widgets:

register_sidebar(array(
  'name' => 'pages sidebar',
  'before_title' => '<h3>',
  'after_title' => '</h3>',
  'before_widget' => '<div>',
  'after_widget' => '</div>'
));

esmi,

I will definately do that.

Jackson,

The below code worked. So let me ask you all this. You say it’s bad practice to use “post” as a variable. I grabbed this from the wordpress codex for a different section of a page where I’m displaying a custom field. Should I change this as well? <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumbnail", true);?>

This is the code that worked:

<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => '4', 'category' => 4 );
$recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );
foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
	echo '<li><div style="float: left;">' . get_post_meta($recent["ID"], "thumbnail", true) . '</div><span><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" title="Look '.$recent["post_title"].'" >Read More</a></span></li> ';
}
?>

esmi,

how would I go about dumping the recent posts array?

Jackson,

Just tried that and still it’s not showing the custom field within recent_posts.