juicyjuke

Some pages will have 4 different categoroy posts but the categories will have posts from their category

Thanks, I understand how to manually create buttons. What I’m trying to do is edit the query posts display posts as buttons so I dont have to manually go in myself and do it.

If I can just figure out how to properly edit the

Wp_Query

To display the post title link in the form of a buttons. A real button. Then ill be happy

ok im closing this. thanks again

Thanks, that tutorial is instructing me how to prevent duplicate images in a post.

I’m trying to prevent an image from being used again once it’s been used once

So basically instead of the video playing when clicked…I want it to open up to the post page..only then the video will play when clicked .

Ok great. I will seek them out. Thanks for the advice.

What I meant? Ok as in. Does the shortcode I created do things how WordPress normally does them. Using the proper functions etc etc.

ok check it out.

Pagination works!!

One thing id like to know however. Is this within the rules of wordpress? Like. is think ok for wordpress site?

add_filter( 'category_description', 'do_shortcode'); 

function wpb_postsbycategory($atts) {
	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
		'expand' => '',
	), $atts) );
    global $paged;
    if ( get_query_var('paged') ) {
    $paged = get_query_var('paged');
    } else if ( get_query_var('page') ) {
    $paged = get_query_var('page');
    } else {
    $paged = 1;
    }
    $posts_per_page = 10;
    $settings = array(
        'showposts' => $posts_per_page, 
        'post_type' => 'post', 
        'category_name' => 'crazy-humorous-pictures, strange-news-stories, crazy-humorous-videos, crazy-funny-memes',
        'orderby' => 'menu_order', 
        'order' => 'DESC', 
        'paged' => $paged
    );
	
    $post_query = new WP_Query( $settings );	
    
    $total_found_posts = $post_query->found_posts;
    $total_page = ceil($total_found_posts / $posts_per_page);
		
	$list = '<ul class="postsbycategory widget_recent_entries">';
	while($post_query->have_posts()) : $post_query->the_post();
		if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
			$list .= '<a href="' . get_the_permalink() .'" rel="bookmark">' . get_the_title() . '</a></li>';
			$list .= '<li>';
			$list .= '<a href="' . get_the_permalink() .'" rel="bookmark">' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post_id, array( 500, 500) ) . '</a></li>';
                        } else {
			// if no featured image is found
			$list .= '<li><a href="' . get_the_permalink() .'" rel="bookmark">' . get_the_title() .'</a></li>';
			$list .= '<li> '. get_the_content() .'</li>';
			}   
	endwhile;
	$list.= '</ul>';
    
    if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) {
        $list .='<div class="page-navigation">'.wp_pagenavi(array('query' => $post_query, 'echo' => false)).'</div>';
    } else {
        $list.='
        <span class="prev-posts-links">'.get_previous_posts_link('<< Previous ').'</span>
        <span class="next-posts-links">'.get_next_posts_link(' Next >>', $total_page).'</span>
        ';
    }
    
	
	return $list;
   

}

 

// Add a shortcode
add_shortcode('categoryposts', 'wpb_postsbycategory');

// Enable shortcodes in text widgets
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

makes all sense what you said. its just learning how to do it again. I started following a 24 part build your theme from scratch tutorial, and after the 7th lesson I got what I needed and went on from there. ive got work in between. what I need is a good book to knock it all into my head again. like even VB I forgot. at least I understand what things do. any suggestions on what to read in order to implement what you said? or maybe even send you a zip of all my code? id be willing to compensate for your time. email? I don’t have a whole bunch of code. very simple. well for someone like you at least.

its hard to explain how I know what I know already without understanding exactly how to do what you said. I find myself doing some things that require good experience yet not being able to do things that a beginner can do.
make sense?

• This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by juicyjuke.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by juicyjuke.

so basically I have to start from scratch. I need the latest posts from 4 categories to be displayed on my home page.

10 per page, and then paginated. I want everyone to be able to find a post that’s interesting instead of manually going to each category one at time to find something interesting.