Comments on: Recent Wordpress Posts in Sidebar

By: PeterVk

PeterVk — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:22:03 +0000

I know this post is a bit old – but thanks! Worked perfectly. Wish I’d found this earlier in the morning…

By: uri

uri — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:31:42 +0000

It does! thanks a lot!

By: szehau

szehau — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:16:25 +0000

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 :)

By: uri

uri — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:02:29 +0000

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

By: Dawn Isaac

Dawn Isaac — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:59:42 +0000

Awesome Thanks.

By: LcF

LcF — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 05:48:22 +0000

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

By: EngLee

EngLee — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:21:51 +0000

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.