Recent Wordpress Posts in Sidebar
I had tried out the code Recent Wordpress Post in Sidebar suggested by EngLee. Although the code did shows the recent posts correctly but some functions (eg: is_page() and is_home() are not working properly when it is after the portion of the code. My guess is the wordpress loop in the code modified value of some global variables.
I have a workaround for it. Before using the is_home() or is_page() function, I save the returned in a temporay variable, call the recent posts loop, and use the temporary variable later when neccessary.
Today when I search for wp_get_archives() in Wordpress WIki, I found that I can generate recent wordpress posts in the more easier way. Here is the code:
<li>
<h2>Recent Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=10'); ?>
</ul>
</li>
Simple and tidy :)
January 5th, 2006, 9:21 am
LOL. That function is so much easier!
As for the is_home() or is_page() functions, I also faced the same problem. But I fixed it another way.
if (is_home()) {
} else if (is_page()) {
}
That would do the job. This means that if you want something to appear in home and page, you have to write it in both cases.
January 5th, 2006, 1:48 pm
wordpess wiki is OLD. you should visit codex.wordpress.org for documentation.
Here is the updated documentation for wp_get_archives:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_get_archives
January 20th, 2006, 12:59 pm
Awesome Thanks.
March 21st, 2006, 9:02 pm
Hi,
could you explain your workaround for the is_page() disfunctioning after using EngLee’s method? I’m only a beginner with PHP so I couldn’t understand how to solve it from the explanations you both gave here.
My problem is like that: I have a footer which can be wide (if it is a wide page) or narrow (for narrow page). I used EngLee’s method in this page:
http://uriashi.com/?page_id=38
(in the left sidebar, you can see I even used the_excerpt_rss() instead of the_title() in order to display the images that I put for each post)
in the footer there’s an conditional if that says something like “if it is page 38 - display the wide footer”, but as you can see, after implementing the query_posts it messed it as you said and the footer displayed is the narrow one.
thanks in advance,
uri
March 21st, 2006, 9:16 pm
Hi uri,
Let say you have a code does something like this:
// Call query_posts
query_posts ("whatever");
if (is_page()) {
// dispaly A
} else {
// display B
}
Instead of doing that, change to this:
// Save whatever is_xxx() function
$is_page = is_page();
$is_post = is_post();
// Call query_posts
query_posts ("whatever");
if ($is_page) { // the different is here
// dispaly A
} else {
// display B
}
if ($is_post) { // the different is here
// dispaly C
} else {
// display D
}
Hope this will help :)
March 21st, 2006, 10:31 pm
It does! thanks a lot!
April 13th, 2008, 4:22 pm
I know this post is a bit old - but thanks! Worked perfectly. Wish I’d found this earlier in the morning…