hbalagh

thanks works great…now any clue of how to make it so it says recent post by authors name?

i need it to show post from that particular author not just the admin’s so if im viewing a post by the name of adam it will show on the sidebar the last 5 post made from him or if im viewing post from susan it will show the last 5 of hers.. and so on

oops link is https://www.bpdfriends.com

I’m using the code directly above me from ruzzino.

as seen here https://www.bpdfriends.com/section/blog/

however for some reason its showing a post there /blog/ is a parent category with no post in it… but its still choosing to display a post from the https://www.bpdfriends.com/section/blog/bipolar-blog/

both of the following work perfect (they are child categories)
https://www.bpdfriends.com/section/blog/bipolar-blog/
https://www.bpdfriends.com/section/blog/bpd-blog/

any way of altering the code to now show the post

there has to be a way

got the solution

<?php
  $ID = $wp_query->posts[0]->ID;
  $postcat = get_the_category($ID);
  $cat = $postcat[0]->cat_ID;
  $parent = get_category ($cat);
    if ($parent->parent) {
      wp_list_categories ('title_li='.__( 'Blogs' ).'&child_of=' . $parent->parent);
      } else {
      wp_list_categories ('title_li='.__( 'Blogs' ).'&child_of=' . $cat);
    }
?>

anyone?

what a great idea…love looking at it all its like a geek porn site lol

anyone?

duh, i should of used

<?php if (is_category('Books')) { ?>

	<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php } ?>

?

anyone

anyone?

thanks, this helped me a bunch as well

never mind i went ahead and used the suckerfish plugin