thebindlestick

How about this:

<?php query_posts('cat=-5'); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="rss" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>

</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

That displays the correct list of posts in my sidebar but they all link to the post displayed on the main page, it is like the to query_posts interfere with eachother, is this the case?

That don’t work for 2.1, plus I was looking for a simple non-plugin hack for it. I found it:

<?php
if (is_home()) {
query_posts(“showposts=1”);
}
?>

Sorry for my delayed response, it’s been too nice outside here in Seattle to stay online! Here is what I am using:

<?php

foreach ($recentposts as $post) {

if ($post->post_title == '')

$post->post_title = sprintf(__('Post #%s'), $post->ID);

echo "<li><a href='".get_permalink($post->ID)."'>";

the_title();

echo '</a></li>';

}

?>

I’d like to limit the number of words that are displayed in the title, in the sidebar only, but not on the post’s page itself – limit it to what will fit on one line… not just truncate it to a certain character count; that’s easy.

Like I said in my first post, if I have six words in the title but only four fit on a line before it is wrapped to the next line, I’d like it to stop after the fourth word and ad an ellipse (…) so if it is set to 31 characters maximum, it would change:

WordPress Issues World Wide Press Release

to

WordPress Issues World Wide…

but not just like 31 characters like this:

WordPress Issues World Wide Pre

So it finds 31 characters, then goes back to the end of the last word, and stops there and adds an ellipse, any ideas?