Thanks!

ilse

II’m very new to Wordpress and just found this wonerful plugin. I installed it okay, but am lost now. Do I first just write a “post” (which automatically shows up on the front page), then by inserting the number of the post [[xxx]] on the page where I really want it, move it there? I cannot seem to find any number to the posts! How do I number them in the first place?

sorry for the newbie question

ilse

*Awesome plugin*
I was planning on coding something like this myself!
*Thank you*

Question: if I want *just* the text of the post displayed, how do I do this?
At the moment, it shows the title and other editing links
I want to remove all of these

Thanks

Omar

So, for Craig and maybe a couple who wanted to append a dynamic list of newest posts by tag to the end of a page, I explained how to do it here:

http://www.sashashepherd.com/?p=1

And reiterating, this probably not the best way to do it, nor the prettiest, most complete, or efficient. But it’s a way that you can make work if you fiddle with it a bit.

[exec]

$num_posts=5;
query_posts(’tag=yoga’);

$i=0;
if ( have_posts() ):
while ( have_posts() && $i<$num_posts):
$i++;
the_post();
echo "”;
the_title();
the_time(’F jS, Y’);
echo “”;

echo “”;

endwhile;

endif;

wp_reset_query(); [/exec]

1) Install the “Inline PHP” plugin.

2) Copy and paste this into the HTML of your post/page:

[exec]
$num_posts=5;
query_posts(’tag=yoga’);

$i=0;
if ( have_posts() ):
while ( have_posts() && $i<$num_posts):
$i++;
the_post();
echo "“;
the_title();
the_time(’F jS, Y’);
echo ““;
echo “”;
endwhile;
endif;
wp_reset_query();
[/exec]

The num_posts is the number of posts to be displayed, you can just set it to a million or remove the “i++;” line to display all of them. Change the “tag=yoga” to “tag=blahblah” or “cat=6″ to select a certain tag.

Like I said, I’m a n00b, and should be considered pseudo-code. It’s a barebones solution that only provides the title and the time of posting, one per line. The biggest problem with it is that it is COMPLETELY unstyled. It will just look like ugly little characters, and won’t blend in with the rest of your site.

I’ll leave the styling and adding other information up to you as homework :P But it’s too late now, I’ve got to go to bed.

To read more about how to add different fields (content, author, etc.) in, and how to put the proper divs to style it nice, read this page:

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop_in_Action

To read how to do more advanced queries, for instance for two different tags:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

Include the ability to display not just one static post, but all (or a finite number) of posts either in a category or with a tag.

This would, in effect, make the pages a combination of static and dynamic content, which could be very useful for some people.

On my site, I needed to have the pages describe certain groups, and then give a short digest or recent tags attributed to them. I found this, and was sure it was the magic bullet. But alas…I ended up having to install an inline PHP plugin and do it via a kind of ugly hack.

Oh shoot. I see just to the right of this post someone else suggesting the same thing. I hope you are able to find the time to implement it at some point, it would be really useful, and, it should be a pretty easy modification to the plugin..basically, just replace the static “The_Content” call with a “query_posts” call and then use WP’s “The Loop”. Then specify different ways to call the function depending on if its ID, tag, or category they need. I’m a total n00b and I managed to hack it out in about twenty minutes, I bet you could bang it out in ten :)

Many thanks in advance.

Tamsin