Change Request – Only display Published posts.

Thanks for creating this plugin, I was looking around for quite some time for a post-based banner for a site. Your plugin does the trick – however I did make one small change as I only wanted PUBLISHED posts to appear and if there were NONE then the widget wouldn`t display.

It was a simple change to your code below:

`// Variables from the widget settings.

$show_custom_post_title = isset( $instance[‘show_custom_post_title’] ) ? $instance[‘show_custom_post_title’] : false;

$show_featured_image = isset($instance[‘show_featured_image’]) ? $instance[‘show_featured_image’] : false;

$apply_content_filters = isset($instance[‘apply_content_filters’]) ? $instance[‘apply_content_filters’] : false;

$content_post = get_post($custom_post_id);

$post_status = get_post_status($custom_post_id);

$content = $content_post->post_content;

if ( $post_status == “publish” ) {

// Display custom widget frontend

if ( $located = locate_template( ‘custom-post-widget.php’ ) ) {

require $located;

return;

}

if ( !$apply_content_filters ) { // Don’t apply the content filter if checkbox selected

$content = apply_filters( ‘the_content’, $content);

}

echo $before_widget;

if ( $show_custom_post_title ) {

echo $before_title . apply_filters( ‘widget_title’,$content_post->post_title) . $after_title; // This is the line that displays the title (only if show title is set)

}

if ( $show_featured_image ) {

echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $content_post -> ID );

}

echo do_shortcode( $content ); // This is where the actual content of the custom post is being displayed

echo $after_widget;

}`

Feel free to incorporate this into your plugin. Many thanks for creating it.

Tom

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/custom-post-widget/