[Plugin: Random Post Link] Add specific Category

  • blpinferno

    (@blpinferno)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I would love to be able to limit the results to a specific category. Is this possible with this plug in?

    Thank you in advance!!

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  • scribu

    (@scribu)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Sure. Just add this to your theme’s functions.php:

    function my_random_post_args($args) {
    $args['category_name'] = 'my-category-slug';

    return $args;
}
add_filter('random_post_args', 'my_random_post_args');

    Of course, replace 'my-category-slug' with your category slug.

    doodleface

    (@doodleface)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    hey,

    any chance of specifying the category for each random link? basically i have ‘music’ and ‘videos’ as categories and it would be great if i could have a separate random post link for each cat :/

    ishotr

    (@ishotr)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    @scribu I tried posting in the code into the functions.php. However, it ended up disabling my blog b/c it caused an error in the functions file. Do you replace the “my-category-slug” only? Or do you change anything else? I think I may be implementing this code incorrectly in my functions.php file.

    this is my code: 

    <?php
if ( 

function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
    register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'Wide Sidebar',
		'before_widget' => '<div class="block %1$s %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</div>',
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="boxedin">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'Left Sidebar',
		'before_widget' => '<div class="block %1$s %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</div>',
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="boxedin">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'Right Sidebar',
		'before_widget' => '<div class="block %1$s %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</div>',
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="boxedin">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'Left Footbar',
		'before_widget' => '<div class="block %1$s %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</div>',
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="boxedin">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'Mid Footbar',
		'before_widget' => '<div class="block %1$s %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</div>',
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="boxedin">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'Right Footbar',
		'before_widget' => '<div class="block %1$s %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</div>',
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="boxedin">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));
}
?>
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