Ecko

New day, clear head/fresh mind. All working. It might not be the best way, perhaps preg_replace() would be suitable? Anyway, if anyone else wants to show a random post image and link it to the post in WordPress. This works:

<?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'attachment',	// SET POST TYPE
	'numberposts' => 5,		// SET HOW MANY POSTS TO SHOW
	'post_status' => null,
	'post_parent' => null, 		// ANY PARENT
	'orderby' => 'rand',		// GET RANDOM POSTS
	);

	$attachments = get_posts($args);

// IF TRUE..
if ($attachments) {

	// ... CHURN THROUGH EACH POST ATTACHEMENT AND OUTPUT AS IMAGE LINKED TO POST
	foreach ($attachments as $post) {
		setup_postdata($post);

		// EXPLODE THE PERMALINK AND STRIP DOWN TO JUST THE POST URL
		// (POST TYPE IS SET TO ATTACHMENT AND RETURNS http://www.domain.com/post-name/attachment/attachment-name)
		$postURL = explode("attachment",get_permalink($post->ID));	

		// GET THS POST ATTACHMENT IMAGE
		$postImage = wp_get_attachment_image($post->ID, $size='thumbnail', $icon = false);

	?>
	<!-- BREAK OUT OF PHP TO INSERT HTML LINK CODE -->
	<a href="<?php echo $postURL[0]; ?>"><?php echo $postImage; ?></a>

	<?php

		} 	// END FOREACH LOOP

	}		// END IF STATEMENT

	?>

Surely there is some way to build a parent page of extracts from the childs?

If I were to manually produce the links, would the the link structure remain or change if the permalink syntax was modified? Or is there usable WP syntax to create dynamically updated page links?

hrmmm ok, so I guess then if there are no child pages then it wouldn’t appear. I was working on the principle that by adding that to a page.php would make it appear everywhere I didn’t want it too. I’ll give it a go 🙂

Sorry I meant to say before, it is valid CSS and valid XHTML trans