colincameron

Thanks filosofo

I was trying to do the same thing but couldn’t figure it out. I figured out an alternative to doing the feed way. Create a file with just the info you need and include its full URL. Here is what I put in the include file for a definition list of the last five posts.

<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
include_once('blog/wp-blog-header.php');
query_posts('posts_per_page=5');
?>
<dl>
<dt>Recent Posts</dt>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<dd><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php get_the_title() ?>"><?php get_the_title() ?></a></dd>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</dl>
<?php else: ?>
<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>

<?php endif;
?>

ok thanks

Great this is exactly what I was looking for but when I looked at the substr function I wasn’t sure it would work like this. Thanks!!

Sorry about that. The invalid code isnt on my site, it must have been added because I forgot the backticks.

<?php $posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=0'); foreach($posts as $post) : ?>
<dd><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></dd>
<?php endforeach; ?>

BTW, isn’t there support for a function file in the templates now? This could make it easier to implement your technique instead of having a plugin.

Oh wow! thanks for the help niziol. I was playing around with the function last night but didnt get it to work.

Thanks again.

OK cool, thanks for the help niziol

Oh boy, I hope thats not the easiest way. There has to be some fancy way of changing the tag around.

I will give that a shot though. Btw, do you know where to get that plugin you mentioned?

Any ideas?

Great, thanks for the tip!

Great, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Ok I figured it out. I didn’t declare a template name at the top of the file. Im not sure why I was using the other method before.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the quick response, I must be looking in the wrong place “Page Templates” does not show up on my “write page” page. I have a archives.php file in my theme directory so according to the codex it should be there?..

Thanks again.

ok just making sure i dint mess something up, thanks