PJ

sure thing, here’s the full code:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Get-a-Post
Plugin URI: http://guff.szub.net/get-a-post
Description: Display a specific post (or Page) with standard template tags.
Version: R1.1
Author: Kaf Oseo
Author URI: http://szub.net

	Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, Kaf Oseo (http://szub.net)
	Get-a-Post is released under the GPL license
	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

	This is a WordPress plugin (http://wordpress.org).

	WordPress is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
	by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
	or (at your option) any later version.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
	General Public License for more details.

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	Public License at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

*/

function get_a_post($id) {
	global $post, $wp_version, $wpdb;
	$now = current_time('mysql');

	if($id) {
		if(is_numeric($id)) {
			$name_or_id = 'ID';
		} else {
			$name_or_id = 'post_name';
		}

		$post = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE (post_status = 'publish' OR post_status = 'static') AND post_date <= '$now' AND $name_or_id = '$id'");
		get_post_custom($post->ID);
		if(preg_match("/^1.2/",$wp_version)) {
			start_wp();
		} else {
			setup_postdata($post);
		}
	}
}
?>

an example would be:
http://9og.jarviswp.com/

i want those two lines of javascript to appear in the footer, not in the widget code. i know add_action ( 'wp_footer', 'the_function_for_JS' ); is what i need, and i assume i can call that from win the widget. my issue is that how do i get those 2 variables from the widget for $tw_username and $tw_updates into the_function_for_JS?

hope that helps explain a little better.

i got it now:

if i add an IF before the for statement.

<? $posts = get_posts(‘order=DESC&category=1’); if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post): ?>

thanks for your help!

sorry, that’s what i meant. it grabs posts in those categories from the get_posts. now i want it to only happen if there are posts in those categories. right now that get_posts returns an error if there are no posts in the category.