Are you sure you are not using a custom taxonomy in your custom post type? Taxonomies for Custom Post Types have to use get_terms instead of get_category. More information on get_terms from the WordPress Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_terms
WP_Query has an orderby property which can be set to rand. If you change your query string to ‘post_type=announcements&posts_per_page=5&orderby=rand’ you should be good to go. You might want to take the time to read through the whole documentation for WP_Query, just so you’re familiar with its capabilities.
The second argument of the save_post action contains the post data: do_action(‘save_post’, $post_ID, $post); You can also hook post_updated which will let you easily compare the before/after data: do_action( ‘post_updated’, $post_ID, $post_after, $post_before);
Sorry, but I don’t see any of those parameters in the parameter list for wp_get_recent_posts. $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => 10, ‘offset’ => 0, ‘category’ => 0, ‘orderby’ => ‘post_date’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘include’ => , ‘exclude’ => , ‘meta_key’ => , ‘meta_value’ =>, ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘post_status’ => ‘draft, publish, future, pending, private’, ‘suppress_filters’ … Read more
If you just want to wrap the post title in a permalink, change this: echo ‘<h3 class=”entry-title media-title”>’ . get_the_title() . ‘</h3>’; …to this: echo ‘<a href=”‘ . get_permalink() . ‘”><h3 class=”entry-title media-title”>’ . get_the_title() . ‘</h3></a>’; Codex reference: get_permalink()
There is no filter that would allow you to strip those $before and $after values: 42 function the_title($before=””, $after=””, $echo = true) { 43 $title = get_the_title(); 44 45 if ( strlen($title) == 0 ) 46 return; 47 48 $title = $before . $title . $after; 49 50 if ( $echo ) 51 echo $title; … Read more
Create a function in functions.php to see if your title part is in an array of ‘banned’ words: function check_word( $word ) { $blacklist = array(‘the’, ‘it’, ‘and’, …); if ( !in_array( $word, $blacklist ) && strlen( $word ) > 3 ) { return $word; } else { return ”; } } Run your title … Read more
Some filters in WordPress are just not user friendly and does not always quite do what one wants to. the_title filter will apply changes to all instances of get_the_title() (which is used by the_title()). So widget titles, related posts titles and post link titles are all changed, which is a problem when you just need … Read more
Try this. First check if the original string length is less than or equal to passed in length, and if so, we ignore the $after parameter : function the_titlesmall($before=””, $after=””, $echo = true, $length = false) { $title = get_the_title(); if( strlen($title) <= $length ) $after=””; if ( $length && is_numeric($length) ) { $title = … Read more
Here is your updated function solving your 2 problems : // Post title as keywords, excluded stop words function title_as_keywords( $word ) { $blacklist = array(‘this’, ‘about’, ‘that’, ‘them’); // Excluded words … $whitelist = array(‘one’, ‘man’, ‘boy’/*etc..*/); // Whitelisted words … if ( (!in_array( $word, $blacklist ) && strlen( $word ) > 3 ) … Read more