Daniel Floeter

I play around a little and fork the Releated Post Widget and renamed it to Same Category Posts here:

https://github.com/DanielFloeter/same-category-posts

download-link (ZIP)
https://github.com/DanielFloeter/same-category-posts/archive/master.zip
Hint: If you use the ZIP download-link delete ‘-master’ in the unziped file name (same-category-posts-master.zip), like ‘same-category-posts’ and copy the folder to \wp-content\plugins\!

I plan more options (show posts from category on pages, order by, for shortcode I’ll plane a own widget, ???)
If you need another feature please let me konw.

Hello Ovidiu,

maybe this is what you looking for: Related Posts Widget

You don’t descript what should shown on pages. I mean not on viewing a post.
Related Posts Widget shows nothing. = > Is Related Post Widget interested for you, what should shown on pages? Then we can discuss what? ??

All you have to do is work with tags. Set each post one tag with similar name as post category.

Ok. Maybe your feature is a cool feature for Related Posts Widget, if it works for you? => If it is so we should discuss, if we can implement to get rid of the one-tag-strategie I mentiont you.

sorry … you can use/add above .cat-post-title or .post-tile (I change it on the linked picute)

Hallo TJWRDW,

your Theme use and split the selectors for .post-title in two or more.
This means long selectors for .post-title, we set also .post-title in the Category-Post-Widget, but your Themes long selectors don’t reach our single .post-title class.

One easy/fast hack is:

add “, .cat-post-title” as pictured below

wp-content/themes/dynamic-news-lite-child/style.css in Line 1189

.widget-category-posts .small-post .post-title, .cat-post-title {
border: none;
margin: 0;
font-size: 0.95em;
font-family: ‘Droid Sans’, Arial, Tahoma;
}

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mx7dybdiyoitug2/TJWRDW.PNG?dl=0

If I can help, then describe what exactly do you want.

Hello johnmootone,

I see now works the float.
My guess is that the theme uses a filter function for the excerpts.
We have the “Disable widget CSS” option that you need to change anything in the widget CSS code so that you can perform subsequent updates easily.

Regards
Daniel

Hello johnmootone,

interesting bug. The wrong formatting is why the Posts on the left side lakes a <p>-tag around the excerpt, but on the right side the <p>-tags were setted.

This is done by a WordPress function automaticly? (the_excerpt())

Can you give me a little more about the use of the Widget:
– Which WordPress version do you use?
– Can you write or make a picture of all settet options from the placed Widgets on the left and of the Widget of the right side where it’s shown corect?

Hello Anchises,

I’m assuming that you write text in the excerpt?

Because the Widget uses get_the_excerpt() to first generate a trimmed-down version of the full post content should there not be an explicit excerpt for the post.

Can you remove the extract in your posts? Then the content is displayed.
Or you need to extract in your posts?

Hello Kerzzy,

what would be a good solution for you? That show then a text, if there are no posts?

In my experience, users take the widget from the page, if they temporarily want to display no Posts under one category.

Hallo beggers,

we decided not to support Shortcode. Because Shortcode is not good for the performance, the Widgets should be light way and solves one aim.
If you want to use categories in your PHP code you can use this Widget: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/stats/

Use the do_shortcode function to use Shortcode inline in PHP code:
https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/do_shortcode/

Regards
Daniel

Hello Lullavie,

we add this feature “No title” actually. If you want you can beta-test it.

You can downlaod the source code here https://github.com/mkrdip/category-posts-widget

Regards
Daniel

Hello elbenar, hello Aryayy,

we checkt in a “No title” feature and will releas a new version on www.ads-software.com soon.

If you want to beta-test, please go to https://github.com/mkrdip/category-posts-widget and download the code.

Best regards
Daniel

Hello Mourat,

would you beta-test a solution for your first issue? We had checkt-in a bugfix on GitHub:

• https://github.com/mkrdip/category-posts-widget

Give us feedback, If you want.

Regards
Daniel

Hello LesTexas60,

would you beta-test a solution for your first issue? We had checkt-in a bugfix on GitHub: https://github.com/mkrdip/category-posts-widget
Give us feedback, If you want.

For your second issue pleace give us a link to your website?

Regards
Daniel

Hello avalol,

the solution for your problem is checkt in on GitHub and will be shiped with the next releas on www.ads-software.com:

.cat-post-item:before,
.cat-post-item:after {
content: “”;
display: table;
clear: both;
}

Hello avalol,
the bug is the float:left for the img-tag: .cat-post-widget img{…float: left; ..}

You can fix it in your CSS-code, e.g. here two proposals, take one of this:
– override the float attribut: .cat-post-widget img { float: none; }
or
– set the a-tag above the img-tag to display:table: .cat-post-widget a { display: table;}

We have to discuss a CSS fix for the Widget. At first we check-in a fix to GitHub, after that we plan a release.
I hope the fix will help for your problem and your website?

Thanks for joining the Widget.