Title: display “link only” posts differently
Last modified: February 7, 2017

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# display “link only” posts differently

 *  [jmoses](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmoses/)
 * (@jmoses)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-link-only-posts-differently/)
 * I’ve created code to display short link-based posts differently that long blog
   posts, and have them not count in your post limit numbers. Yay. Like [kottke](http://www.kottke.org).
   
   Can view example [here](http://blog.vtsportbike.net). I’m going to clean-up and
   package the code nicely sometime in the next few days. Feedback welcome.

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 *  [markmichon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markmichon/)
 * (@markmichon)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-link-only-posts-differently/#post-74774)
 * kinda like Matt’s Asides?
 *  Thread Starter [jmoses](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmoses/)
 * (@jmoses)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-link-only-posts-differently/#post-74775)
 * uhhh…maybe? have a link to that? I swear I looked for something like this. Perhaps
   not hard enough…
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-link-only-posts-differently/#post-74777)
 * Well, there is room for two “shorties” in this arena, Matt’s does count towards
   post limit:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/10/5606](http://wordpress.org/support/10/5606)
   You can see how he has it implemented (I also have it on my site)
 *  Thread Starter [jmoses](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmoses/)
 * (@jmoses)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-link-only-posts-differently/#post-74786)
 * Yeah, almost exactly like that. I’m sure we do it almost exactly the same, as
   well. The part that required thought was how to not make the short links / asides
   not count towards your post limit.
 *  Thread Starter [jmoses](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmoses/)
 * (@jmoses)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-link-only-posts-differently/#post-74827)
 * slapped it in the wiki:
    [http://wiki.wordpress.org/LinkPost](http://wiki.wordpress.org/LinkPost)
 *  [agrippa_cash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agrippa_cash/)
 * (@agrippa_cash)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-link-only-posts-differently/#post-75416)
 * Currently I have a couple ugly hacks in place to enable my sidebar. I am using(
   and mangeling) Matt’s Asides by changing the “If” statement from his loop`<?php
   if ($posts) { foreach($posts as $post) { start_wp(); ?>
    <?php if (in_category(
   2) && !$single ) { //code below is for link post ?> <?php } else { // code below
   prints normal posts (without excluded links category) ?> AND I have a second 
   loop taken from 2fargons method (and using his improved functions.php) in the
   sidebar <?php $posts = get_posts('order=ASC&category=2&orderby=name&offset=0&
   numberposts=4'); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp()?> This is ugly and ineffeciant
   and doesn’t get me quite the results I want because “Aside” posts out of order
   and counted against the total. I tried to use this plugin to fix that, but it
   was skipping a normal post which should have been published (maybe becuase I 
   had 2 Asides on the same day?). If anyone can explain why this was happening,
   or point out a way to improve my current hack I’d be very happy.
 *  [agrippa_cash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agrippa_cash/)
 * (@agrippa_cash)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-link-only-posts-differently/#post-75422)
 * There was a problem with a couple intermediate posts being skipped so now the
   end of line 106 of the plugin reads `("numberposts=$left")`. This may also cause
   trouble, though ATM everything seems OK.
 *  [agrippa_cash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agrippa_cash/)
 * (@agrippa_cash)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-link-only-posts-differently/#post-75433)
 * I cannot get those two posts to appear on the main page. I think that this is
   because there are a couple deleted posts that are throwing off the backfill function(
   but I could be wrong). Assuming I am correct, you need to count gap between legetimate
   posts and adjust the backfill offset accordingly. In any event I am leaving my
   setup as is but can’t recommend it.

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