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Thanks t31os!

The code works fine but I can’t get it to work with post excerpts. Any ideas? I’d like it so a message pops up in the post excerpt.

@t310s_ I just tried your code. However, the “Previous Features” li didn’t show up on the ‘features’ page.

I realized the code above doesn’t include the endif. I must have taken it out at the last second. Anyway, this is the code.

<div id="sidebar">
	<ul>
		<li>
		<?php login_with_ajax(); ?>
		</li>

		<li>
		<h2>Connect</h2>
		<center>
		<a title="Follow Us On Twitter!" href="https://www.twitter.com/socialmediate" style="margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"><img alt="Follow Us On Twitter!" src="https://www.socialmediate.com/wp-content/themes/socialmediate/images/twitter.png"/></a>
		<a title="Add Us On Facebook!" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Mediate/127797375765" target="_blank"><img alt="Add Us On Facebook!" src="https://www.socialmediate.com/wp-content/themes/socialmediate/images/facebook.png"/></a>
		</center>
		</li>

		<?php
		$prev = new WP_Query('cat=3');
		$prev->query('showposts=10');
		print_r($prev);
		if (is_page('features')){
		echo('<li><h2>Previous Features</h2></li>');
		while ($prev->have_posts()) : $prev->the_post(); ?>
		<div class="spost"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
		}
	</ul>
</div>

Thanks, I tried your code. However, I get an unexpected endif syntax error on line 23…

<div id="sidebar">
	<ul>
		<li>
		<?php login_with_ajax(); ?>
		</li>

		<li>
		<h2>Connect</h2>
		<center>
		<a title="Follow Us On Twitter!" href="https://www.twitter.com/socialmediate" style="margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"><img alt="Follow Us On Twitter!" src="https://www.socialmediate.com/wp-content/themes/socialmediate/images/twitter.png"/></a>
		<a title="Add Us On Facebook!" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Mediate/127797375765" target="_blank"><img alt="Add Us On Facebook!" src="https://www.socialmediate.com/wp-content/themes/socialmediate/images/facebook.png"/></a>
		</center>
		</li>

		<?php
		$prev = new WP_Query('cat=3');
		$prev->query('showposts=10');
		print_r($prev);
		if (is_page('features')){
		echo('<li><h2>Previous Features</h2></li>');
		while ($prev->have_posts()) : $prev->the_post(); ?>
		<div class="spost"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
		}
	</ul>
</div>

thank you t31os! when i get back home i will attempt to dissect the code you posted. i really appreciate you taking the time to help me out!!

Thanks for the replies.

@apljdi I tried following the instructions in the tutorial and came up w/ the following. It’s not working but I’m hoping you can give me some guidance.

<div id="sidebar">
	<ul>
		<li>
		<?php login_with_ajax(); ?>
		</li>

		<li>
		<h2>Connect</h2>
		<center>
		<a title="Follow Us On Twitter!" href="https://www.twitter.com/socialmediate" style="margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"><img alt="Follow Us On Twitter!" src="https://www.socialmediate.com/wp-content/themes/socialmediate/images/twitter.png"/></a>
		<a title="Add Us On Facebook!" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Mediate/127797375765" target="_blank"><img alt="Add Us On Facebook!" src="https://www.socialmediate.com/wp-content/themes/socialmediate/images/facebook.png"/></a>
		</center>
		</li>

		<?php
		$prev = new WP_Query('cat=3');
		$prev->query('showposts=10');
		if ('is_page('features')');
		echo('<li><h2>Previous Features</h2></li>');
		while ($prev->have_posts()) : $prev->the_post(); ?>
		<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></li>
		<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	</ul>
</div>

That got the h2 element to show up but not the posts in category 4. Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

t31os_, if you can write up an example, it would help me tremendously. ??

I’m familiar with xhtml and css but am still a newbie when it comes to php.

Still can’t get more than one post to show up. Here is the code I have. If anyone can help me figure out what’s wrong with it, I’d appreciate it.

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/m408cbe3f

The lines highlighted in yellow is the box I’m having trouble with.

I tested it with the two posts I have now by changing numberposts=2 and it didn’t work. I’m assuming it would be the same if I created 3 more posts in that category and changed the number back to 5.

I’m an idiot. I entered the wrong category number. However, I have a new problem now. Only one post is showing up although numberposts=5.

Is there something else I overlooked?

Erm…still no luck. =/ I’m still getting nothing in the “carousel” div.

I’m placing this code in index.php in a separate section above my blog posts. Here is my code for index.php:

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/m721b0f92

Thanks for helping!

Thanks esmi but that’s not pulling in the posts either. I still get a blank box. Any other ideas?

Thanks, esmi. I read over the link you posted and tried to implement it into my site. However, I screwed something up because nothing is showing up inside my div. Here is what I have.

<div id="carousel" style="border: 2px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); height: 184px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
		<ul>
		<?php
		global $post;
		$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=1&category=2');
		foreach($myposts as $post) :
		?>
		<li>
		<div class="entry">
			<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
		</div>
		</li>
		<?php endforeach; ?>
		</ul>
	</div>

Can you let me know what I’m doing wrong?