how to give different class names, based on category, on latest post?

Use something like <div <?php post_class();?>> and WP will automatically create classes that include the post’s categories.

hi!

Thanks for the reply.
the code works perfect but that’s not exactly what I need.

As for now, I use this to show my latest 10 posts:
<?php wp_get_archives(‘title_li=&type=postbypost&limit=10’); ?>

this code automatically generate something like this:

<ul id="blahblah">
<li><a href="">post three from "A" category</a></li>
<li><a href="">post two from "B" category</a></li>
<li><a href="">post one from "A" category</a></li>
</ul>

And what I wanna do is:

<ul id="blahblah">
  <li class="post_from_a_category"><a href="">post three from "A" category</a>
  <li class="post_from_b_category"><a href="">post two from "B" category</a>
  <li class="post_from_a_category"><a href="">post one from "A" category</a>
</ul>

so posts from “A” category will have its own class name – while posts from “B” category also have its own class name (so I can style ’em)

can you please help me with this?

You’re not going to be able to achieve this using wp_get_archives. You might be better of using get_posts:

<ul id="blahblah">
<?php
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=10');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
$cat_name = '';
$category = get_the_category();
$cat_name = $category[0]->cat_name;
?>
<li class="<?php echo $cat_name;?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

Wow!! Thanks a lot, Esmi!
You’re da best ??
I changed the cat_name to category_nicename (personal preferences tho)

off the topic – I tried to grab my latest twitter update by using this:

<?php function
			getTwitterStatus($userid){$url = "https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$userid.xml?count=1";$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("Oopsie!");
			foreach($xml->status as $status){$text = $status->text;}
            echo $text;}
            //my user id ivanasetiawan
            getTwitterStatus("ivanasetiawan");
?>

it works out just fine on other sites – but on my site I see these warnings:

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/ivanaset/public_html/wp-content/themes/starkers-html5/index.php on line 187

Warning: simplexml_load_file(https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ivanasetiawan.xml?count=1) [function.simplexml-load-file]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/ivanaset/public_html/wp-content/themes/starkers-html5/index.php on line 187

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ivanasetiawan.xml?count=1" in /home/ivanaset/public_html/wp-content/themes/starkers-html5/index.php on line 187
Oopsie!

Any ideas? ??

Looks like the server is locked down a little tightly. It’s refusing to allow the theme to access an external(?) file via URL.

all set up ??

One minor question – Is it possible to exclude a certain category from the latest posts?

Thanks ??

If you’re using get_posts, you could use something like $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=10&cat=-4'); to exclude all posts from Category ID 4.