Widget – running a WP_Query in it?

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    (@myran)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    Hello!

    Im building a site for a client and im making i widget to display “news” (posts from a specified category) on the firstpage. However, im having some trouble printing it correctly on the screen.

    echo $before_widget;
		echo '
		<article class="news">
			<header class="heading small">
				<span class="icon icon-news">
				</span>
				<hgroup>
					<h2>' . $title . '</h2>
					<h4>' . $subtitle . '</h4>
				</hgroup>
			</header>';

			$recent = new WP_Query("cat=". $cat ."&showposts=". $posts .""); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();

			echo '
			<div class="news-item">
				<a href="'.the_permalink().'" class="heavy">'.the_title().'</a>
				<p class="news-excerpt">
					'.the_excerpt().'
					<span class="read-more"><a href="'.the_permalink().'">L?s mer...</a></span>
				</p>
			</div>';

			endwhile;

		echo '
		</article>
		';

		echo $after_widget;

    As you probably see im no phpcoder ?? Right now the output is: All the functions for permalinks, title and all that gets executed first, then my “layout” is beneeth it, empty. What am i doing wrong? Thank you very much in advance!

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  • Thread Starter mYrAn

    (@myran)

    Solved it myself!

    echo '
<div class="news-item">
<a href="';
the_permalink();
echo '" class="heavy">';
the_title();
echo '</a><p class="news-excerpt">';
the_excerpt();
echo '<span class="read-more"><a href="';
the_permalink();
echo '">L?s mer...</a></span></p></div>';
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