Kailey (trepmal)

Hopefully this will help you understand possible values for each argument.

<?php
// boolean: 0=false, 1=true
$args = array(
        'title' => 'Your Title', // the heading for the output
        'hide_title' => 0, // boolean
        'title_url' => '', // a valid url, where the heading should link to
        'number_posts' => 3, // any number, how many posts to show
        'post_offset' => 0, // any number, how many posts to skip
        'post_type' => 'post', // any valid post type
        'post_status' => 'publish', // any valid post status
        'order_by' => 'date', // 'id', 'author', 'title', 'date', 'modified', 'parent', 'rand', 'comment_count', 'menu_order'
        'order' => 'DESC', // 'DESC' or 'ASC'
        'reverse_order' => 0, // boolean
        'shuffle_order' => 1, // boolean
        'ignore_sticky' => 1, // boolean
        'only_sticky' => 0, // boolean
        'exclude_current' => 1, // boolean
        'categories' => '', // comma separated list of category IDs
        'tags' => '', // comma separated list of tag IDs
        'tax' => '', // query-string style taxonomy-termID pairs (Ex: category=1,2,4&post_tag=6,12)
        'custom_fields' => '', // query-string style key-value pairs (Ex: meta_key=meta_value&key2=value2)
        'exclude' => '', // comma separated list if post IDs to exclude
        'before_items' => '<ul>', // html at beginning of output
        'item_format' => '<li><a href="[url]">[title]</a><br />[excerpt]</li>', // html format for each result
        'after_items' => '</ul>',// html at end of output
        );
miniloops( $args );
?>

I’m not sure why 'shuffle_order' => 1 would result in corrupted text. I’m unable to replicate this issue.

If you’re copying my example formats directly into the miniloops() function instead of the widget field, you’ll have to replace the single quotes (should be 2, around the fallback parameter in the [image] shortcode) with double quotes. That should prevent the page from breaking.

Here’s the very simple code for getting the 5 most recent posts, and then 5 random posts. However, the 5 random posts *may* contain some of the 5 most recent posts. There’s not currently an easy way to avoid this.

<?php
//5 recent posts
$args = array(
        'number_posts' => 5,
        );
miniloops( $args );

//5 random posts
$args = array(
        'number_posts' => 5,
        'order_by' => 'rand'
        );
miniloops( $args );
?>

You should be able to adjust the css selectors like this

.miniloops ul { list-style:none; line-height:1.35em; margin:0;}
.miniloops ul li { clear:both;width:100%;margin: 0 0 15px;}
.miniloops ul a { font-weight:normal; }
.miniloops ul img { float:left; margin:0 10px 0 0; padding:2px;border:none; }

If that doesn’t work, your theme may be interfering.

Alternatively, you can add the ‘advanced-recent-posts’ class to the mini loops output.

If the Before Item field still has the default <ul> you can change that to <ul class="advanced-recent-posts"> That should make your original styles work without modification.

v0.7 should fix this issue. Let me know if it still gives you trouble.

I’m glad you like it! 🙂

You can try commenting out line 68 of post-editor-buttons.php, (looks like $input = array_map( 'peb_quote_replace', $input);) but it’s there because double quotes can cause breakage or not work as intended.

Mini Loops can work with pages, but I haven’t done a lot of testing to see how well it works with child pages.

If you’re in a position to test it out, feel free to let me know how it goes and if you have any feedback.

You’ll need to use category IDs, not slugs