Gregg

Hi Dukessa

With my limited PHP coding skills I managed to solve the problem. I changed all references to get_posts within islidex.php to include an array for my custom post types so it looks like this:
get_posts((array('post_type' => array('post','films','showreels'))),'numberposts='.$numpost.'&cat='.$catid.'');

It’s not an ideal solution since this file will the overwritten with subsequent updates to your plugin, but at least it’s working for now. I’ll try to come up with a more elegant fix.

Hopefully it helps anyone else out there that get’s stuck.

Hi MichaelH

Thanks so much for your very prompt response and help. Everything works fine except for my “else” statement which I’m struggling to incorporate into your code. I’m sure that I’ve got the syntax wrong.

<?php
  $args=array(
    'cat' => -3,
    'showposts' => 4,
    'caller_get_posts'=> 1
    );
  $my_query = null;
  $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
  if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {

    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
			<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="<?php hybrid_entry_class(); ?>">

				<?php hybrid_before_entry(); // Before entry hook ?>

				<div class="entry-content entry">
					<?php the_excerpt( __('Continue reading', 'hybrid') . the_title( ' "', '"', false ) ); ?>
					<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<p class="pages">' . __('Pages:', 'hybrid'), 'after' => '</p>' ) ); ?>
				</div>

				<?php hybrid_after_entry(); // After entry hook ?>

			</div>
     <?php endwhile;
  } //if ($my_query) ?>

<?php else: ?>

			<p class="no-data"><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.', 'hybrid'); ?></p>

<?php endif; ?>  

wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

		<?php hybrid_after_content(); // After content hook ?>

You are an absolute star Otto42. That works perfectly and the site is looking much better … thank you so much. It’s tough trying to add functionality with so little PHP experience.

Cheers.