Including a Miniloop using Template Tags

  • Resolved holyyakker

    (@holyyakker)


    16 years ago

    I am looking to create a mini-loop as part of a mostly Static page. However, for the purposes of CMS I want the rest of the page (mostly a welcome message) to be something that can be edited by another user.

    If I were to create a page called “Welcome Message” and in the page.php Template added this code:

    <?php
if(is_page('Welcome Message'))
{
$how_many=5; //How many posts do you want to show
require_once('wp-config.php'); // Change this for your path to wp-config.php file ?>

<ol id="whats-new">
<?
$news=$wpdb->get_results("SELECT <code>ID</code>,<code>post_title</code> FROM $wpdb->posts
WHERE <code>post_type</code>=\"post\" AND <code>post_status</code>=\"publish\" ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $how_many");
foreach($news as $np){
printf ("<li><a href=\"index.php?p=%s\">%s</a></li>", $np->ID,$np->post_title);
}
}?>

    Do you think that would do what I wanted?

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    Might be easier to use this plugin:
    https://aralbalkan.com/1016

    Also, a recent posts plugin such as https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/recent-posts-plugin/ will do this.

    Otherwise, this code in a Page Template could work:

    <?php
$posts=get_posts('post_type=post&showposts=3');
if ($posts) {
foreach($posts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<p><?php the_time('m.d.y') ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
<?php }
}
?>

    Thread Starter holyyakker

    (@holyyakker)

    For the record the code I tried did work – however I’m going to see if the plugins and see if they allow me greater flexibility.

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