Comments on: Make WordPress Obey: List Posts on Static Pages http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/ Tips and tricks from the trenches. Written by people who like the Web so much that they decided to turn obsessive surfing habits into career choices. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:25:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rachel http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-7745 Rachel Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:08:25 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-7745 This looks like what I need but I want to post the entire post - title and content - for each post. Do I add something inside of [get_posts tag="wines" numberposts=10 orderby="title] to accomplish this? Thanks for your help. This looks like what I need but I want to post the entire post – title and content – for each post. Do I add something inside of [get_posts tag="wines" numberposts=10 orderby="title] to accomplish this?
Thanks for your help.

]]> By: John http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-7606 John Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:14:45 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-7606 Feature request: options "notcategory" and "nottag" to display everything <em>but</em> the category/tag designated by that option. Then you could do something like <h1>Recent announcements</> [get_posts category=20] <h1>Recent content</> [get_posts notcategory=20] Feature request: options “notcategory” and “nottag” to display everything but the category/tag designated by that option.

Then you could do something like

<h1>Recent announcements</>
[get_posts category=20]

<h1>Recent content</>
[get_posts notcategory=20]

]]> By: Amel http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-6866 Amel Wed, 11 May 2011 17:37:40 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-6866 Hello, Great plugin but I was wondering how to pull the posts author as well. I tried using the "post_author" but it only pulls that users id and not their user name. I also tried using the "user_nicename" field but it wouldn't pull that in either. Here is the shortcode: [get_posts fields="post_title, post_author" fields_classes="class1, class2" fields_make_link="true, false"] But the "post_author" only shows the users id number that is in the database. Anyone have any idea how to pull the author? Thanks, Amel Hello,

Great plugin but I was wondering how to pull the posts author as well. I tried using the “post_author” but it only pulls that users id and not their user name. I also tried using the “user_nicename” field but it wouldn’t pull that in either.

Here is the shortcode:
[get_posts fields="post_title, post_author" fields_classes="class1, class2" fields_make_link="true, false"]

But the “post_author” only shows the users id number that is in the database. Anyone have any idea how to pull the author?

Thanks,
Amel

]]> By: cdragin http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-6834 cdragin Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:49:41 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-6834 I'm pulling in the entire post using post_content, but all of the p tags are stripped out, so the text merges into one giant paragraph. Is there a way to prevent the p tags from being lost? I’m pulling in the entire post using post_content, but all of the p tags are stripped out, so the text merges into one giant paragraph. Is there a way to prevent the p tags from being lost?

]]> By: Manny http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-6667 Manny Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:11:35 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-6667 Great plugin, add these styles and edit as required to style links. .get_posts_class { list-style-type: none!important; list-style:none!important;} .get_posts_class li { display: block; padding: 4px 4px; list-style-type: none!important; list-style:none!important; } .get_posts_class li a { display: block; font-size:12px; font-weight: bold; margin-right:4px; } Great plugin, add these styles and edit as required to style links.

.get_posts_class { list-style-type: none!important; list-style:none!important;}
.get_posts_class li { display: block; padding: 4px 4px; list-style-type: none!important; list-style:none!important; }
.get_posts_class li a { display: block; font-size:12px; font-weight: bold; margin-right:4px; }

]]> By: Chris http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-6568 Chris Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:08:14 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-6568 Currently I pull 8 posts to a main page, but I wanted a specific category because other posts will be a blog. I got a specific category to post to the main page while not showing the blog category. get_posts category=6 So it looks like this [get_posts numberposts=8 fields="post_title, post_excerpt " get_posts category=6] Currently I pull 8 posts to a main page, but I wanted a specific category because other posts will be a blog. I got a specific category to post to the main page while not showing the blog category.

get_posts category=6

So it looks like this

[get_posts numberposts=8 fields="post_title, post_excerpt " get_posts category=6]

]]> By: Bnpositive http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-5787 Bnpositive Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:44:42 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-5787 The category option doesn't seem to be working for me. I have the following code setup on the page, but when rendering it's showing other posts, not ones from the category I've specified. [get_posts post_category="27" fields="post_title, post_excerpt" fields_classes="class1, class2" fields_make_link="true, false"] What am I doing wrong? The category option doesn’t seem to be working for me. I have the following code setup on the page, but when rendering it’s showing other posts, not ones from the category I’ve specified.

[get_posts post_category="27" fields="post_title, post_excerpt" fields_classes="class1, class2" fields_make_link="true, false"]

What am I doing wrong?

]]> By: Jefre http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-4801 Jefre Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:53:58 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-4801 Is there a way to display a message (e.g. "Not Available at this time.") when there are no posts that fulfill all the arguments? Is there a way to display a message (e.g. “Not Available at this time.”) when there are no posts that fulfill all the arguments?

]]> By: sam http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-4210 sam Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:08:34 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-4210 oliver: Good point, I never thought of how the site's search would handle content generated by a shortcode tag. The answer might be that it doesn't do it well, in which case implementing your suggestion might be tough, but it's worth a closer look, and I'll add it to the feature request list. oliver: Good point, I never thought of how the site’s search would handle content generated by a shortcode tag. The answer might be that it doesn’t do it well, in which case implementing your suggestion might be tough, but it’s worth a closer look, and I’ll add it to the feature request list.

]]> By: sam http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/2009/08/21/nurelm-get-posts/comment-page-2/#comment-4208 sam Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:03:48 +0000 http://www.nurelm.com/themanual/?p=336#comment-4208 I've been slacking for quite a while in answering questions, my apologies for that. I'll try to answer a few here, even some pretty old ones: Calvin wants to display the category that a post is from. Although there is a post_category field in the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description/2.7#Table:_wp_posts" rel="nofollow">wp_post database table fields</a>, unfortunately, it is just a number pointing to the category's unique key, not it's name. It would be nice if the plugin knew that, and figured out that the name should be looked up and shown ... a feature I'll add to our issue tracker. Gelatinous wants to know if you can list posts by keyword. I'm not sure I understand this one, since you can list posts by tag, which is a list of keywords that you choose for a particular article. Maybe the question is about listing posts based on a keyword search, and if so the answer is no, that's not built into the plugin. Good idea, will add it to the feature list. tdu is just seeing "[get_posts]" ... that makes me think the plugin is not installed or maybe not activated, check to make sure it's turned on? punkin wants the post_excerpt field to pull the auto-generated excerpt when no manually entered one is available. The wp_posts table we pull from does not do this, but it would be nice if the plugin could be smart and do it for you. Good idea, will add to feature list. punkin also reported what sounds like a bug, will add to the bug list as a higher priority issue to look at. There were a few Qs on formatting results. The mechanism for doing this is through the ul_class and fields_classes options. Have a look at these on <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nurelm-get-posts/" rel="nofollow">the documentation page</a>, you'll need to use them in conjunction with your CSS to format results. I’ve been slacking for quite a while in answering questions, my apologies for that. I’ll try to answer a few here, even some pretty old ones:

Calvin wants to display the category that a post is from. Although there is a post_category field in the wp_post database table fields, unfortunately, it is just a number pointing to the category’s unique key, not it’s name. It would be nice if the plugin knew that, and figured out that the name should be looked up and shown … a feature I’ll add to our issue tracker.

Gelatinous wants to know if you can list posts by keyword. I’m not sure I understand this one, since you can list posts by tag, which is a list of keywords that you choose for a particular article. Maybe the question is about listing posts based on a keyword search, and if so the answer is no, that’s not built into the plugin. Good idea, will add it to the feature list.

tdu is just seeing “[get_posts]” … that makes me think the plugin is not installed or maybe not activated, check to make sure it’s turned on?

punkin wants the post_excerpt field to pull the auto-generated excerpt when no manually entered one is available. The wp_posts table we pull from does not do this, but it would be nice if the plugin could be smart and do it for you. Good idea, will add to feature list.

punkin also reported what sounds like a bug, will add to the bug list as a higher priority issue to look at.

There were a few Qs on formatting results. The mechanism for doing this is through the ul_class and fields_classes options. Have a look at these on the documentation page, you’ll need to use them in conjunction with your CSS to format results.

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