ashtonfitzgerald

Thank you for posting this! Saved me a huge headache!

I was running into the same rub creating a custom widget to integrate into a theme. Defining the widget within functions.php and trying to point to an image file within the widget. The path was correct, however the image was not rendered properly.

I’m still a relative newb to php, and everything seemed normal in the coding, but the server path to an image wasn’t doing what I wanted. Typing in the absolute uri would work, but of course that wouldn’t be stable across different installations of the theme.

It turns out that the order of how the php tags are placed affects the outcome dramatically.

Using my original code, if I place the_permalink before the_excerpt, the permalink points to the proper post. If it’s placed after the_excerpt, it displays the active page permalink.

This occurs with wp_query as well.

This is the original get_posts code, but with the ‘watch the dog training video’ link duplicated above the_excerpt. It displays properly above, but not below the_excerpt.

<?php
 $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=3&orderby=rand&category_name=dog-training-videos');
 foreach ($postslist as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post); ?>

	<em><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">watch the dog training video...</a></em><br /><br />

 <div style="border-bottom:1px solid #f0f0f0;">
 <br />
 <strong><?php the_title(); ?></strong>
 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<em><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">watch the dog training video...</a></em><br /><br />
 </div>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

Can anyone shed some light on this? I don’t mind just permalinking the post title, but now I’m curious how this is working.

-Ashton

Thank you. I’m going to try using wp_query() and see how that works out.

-Ashton