Show lastest category posts in sidebar variable.

  • Resolved germz

    (@germz)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    I’m trying to show the latest events in the sidebar of my site. I’m adding,

    <?php if(is_home()) : ?>
		<?php $prev = new WP_Query(); $prev->query('showposts=5&cat=3'); ?>
        <li>
		<?php if(!$prev->have_posts()) { echo 'No posts found for the query'; } else { ?><h2>Recent Events</h2>
		<img src="<?php get_custom_field('image', TRUE); ?>" /></li>

    But I get errors, and if I try 

    <?php query_posts('cat=1');?>

<ul>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

<img src="<?php get_custom_field('image', TRUE); ?>" />

<?php endwhile; ?>

</ul>

    Then it will work but then it will FORCE the latest posts in my main index page to be from the category of the sidebar code, in this case “category 1”.

    I need to have the sidebar code not interfere with my page code, this is the entire header.php code.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

<?php /* if index.php or another page template (copied from index.php) was not used

(i.e. by a plugin such as WPG2), the global $bfa_ata would be empty */

global $bfa_ata; if ($bfa_ata == "") include_once (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions/bfa_get_options.php'); ?>

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['css_external'] == "External" ) { ?>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $bfa_ata['get_option_home']; ?>/?bfa_ata_file=css" type="text/css" media="all" />

<?php } ?>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions/bfa_meta_tags.php'); ?>

<?php if ($bfa_ata['favicon_file'] != "") { ?><link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo $bfa_ata['template_directory']; ?>/images/favicon/<?php echo $bfa_ata['favicon_file']; ?>" /><?php } ?>

<?php if ( is_single() OR is_page() ) { ?><link rel="canonical" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" /><?php } ?>

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> Atom Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />

<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />

<?php     wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' ); ?>

<?php if ( function_exists('wp_list_comments') AND is_singular() ) {     wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); } ?>

<?php wp_head(); ?>

<?php echo ($bfa_ata['html_inserts_header'] != "" ? apply_filters(widget_text, $bfa_ata['html_inserts_header']) : ''); ?>

<?php if ($bfa_ata['pngfix_selectors'] != "") { ?>

<!--[if IE 6]>

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $bfa_ata['template_directory']; ?>/js/DD_roundies.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">DD_roundies.addRule('<?php echo $bfa_ata['pngfix_selectors']; ?>');</script>

<![endif]-->

<?php } ?>

</head>

<body <?php body_class(); ?><?php echo ($bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_tag'] != "" ? ' ' . apply_filters(widget_text, $bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_tag']) : ''); ?>>

<?php echo ($bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_top'] != "" ? apply_filters(widget_text, $bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_top']) : ''); ?>

<div id="wrapper">

<div id="container">

<table id="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<colgroup>

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colone" /><?php } ?>

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col2'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colone-inner" /><?php } ?>

<col class="coltwo" />

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['right_col2'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colthree-inner" /><?php } ?>

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['right_col'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colthree" /><?php } ?>

</colgroup> 

    <tr>

        <!-- Header -->

        <td id="header" colspan="<?php echo $bfa_ata['cols']; ?>">

        <?php bfa_header_config($bfa_ata['configure_header']); ?>

        </td>

        <!-- / Header -->

    </tr>

    <!-- Main Body -->    

    <tr id="bodyrow">

        <?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col'] == "on" ) { ?>

        <!-- Left Sidebar -->

        <td id="left">

            <?php // Widgetize the Left Sidebar 

            if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Left Sidebar') ) : ?>

                    <div class="widget widget_categories"><div class="widget-title">

                    <h3><?php _e('Categories','atahualpa'); ?></h3>

                    </div>

                    <ul><?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li='); ?></ul>

                    </div>

                    <div class="widget widget_archive"><div class="widget-title">

                    <h3><?php _e('Archives','atahualpa'); ?></h3>

                    </div>

                    <ul><?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?></ul>

                    </div>

     <?php if(is_home()) : ?>
		<?php $prev = new WP_Query(); $prev->query('showposts=5&cat=3'); ?>
        <li>
		<?php if(!$prev->have_posts()) { echo 'No posts found for the query'; } else { ?><h2>Recent Events</h2>
		<img src="<?php get_custom_field('image', TRUE); ?>" /></li>

        </td>

        <!-- / Left Sidebar -->

        <?php } ?>

        <?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col2'] == "on" ) { ?>

        <!-- Left INNER Sidebar -->

        <td id="left-inner">

            <?php // Widgetize the Left Inner Sidebar 

            if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Left Inner Sidebar') ) : ?>

                    <!-- no default content for the LEFT INNER sidebar -->

            <?php endif; ?>

        </td>

        <!-- / Left INNER Sidebar -->

        <?php } ?>

        <!-- Main Column -->

        <td id="middle">
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