How to obtain the recent posts without their content? The same way you would any other post, just don’t use the post content. Not fetching the post content will not improve performance, and may actually hurt performance. This is because WordPress would need to make an additional query if it needed the post content. When … Read more
The mistake is in your first block of code: <?php if (have_posts()): the_post(); ?> <h3> <?php _e(‘All posts by’); ?> <?php echo get_the_author(); ?> <span class=”arrows”>»</span> </h3> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();?> You call the_post() to populate the regular template tags (i.e. get_the_author()) but don’t use the rest of the post. Then, inside your while … Read more
This code uses snippet from @Milo to suit your requirement. Replace the code you’ve provided in question with this – <li> <h2><a href=”http://growingedgecoaching.com/blog”>Growing Edge Blog</a></h2> <?php $latest = new WP_Query( array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 1 ) ); while( $latest->have_posts() ) : $latest->the_post(); ?> <h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> <div class=”forward-link”> <a href=”<?php … Read more
First, ensure that your template file is named home.php. Second, there’s no need to use a custom query loop in this context. If you only want to display 3 posts on the blog posts index (i.e. the “homepage”), then filter the main loop query via pre_get_posts: function wpse83660_filter_pre_get_posts( $query ) { if ( is_home() && … Read more
Try: $postslist = get_posts( ‘orderby=ID&numberposts=15′ ); Here, we’re ordering by the ID, which should relate to when the posts were added to the database.
You can use the wp_trim_excerpt() to get the excerpt of the content. You can use it inside your loop to get the excerpt of each post the string provided to a maximum of 55 words if it is more then a […] will be added to the end of the string. <?php $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(array(‘post_type’=>’jokes’)); … Read more
I would take a different approach to this using a direct database query to get a list of author IDs ordered by recent posts. global $wpdb; $user_ids = $wpdb->get_results( ” SELECT DISTINCT post_author FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY post_date DESC ” ); if ( $user_ids ) { foreach ( $user_ids as $user_id ) { $user = … Read more
Your problem is your custom query. Do not use variables that is used by default by WordPress. $posts and $post is WordPress reserved global variables. Change $post to a unique variable, something like $posts_query. When using get_posts and you need to setup postdata to make use of template tags, you have no choiche but to … Read more
<?php $post_types = array( ‘bmw’ => ‘BMW’, // post type to use in query => post type to show in <h2> ‘audi’ => ‘Audi’ ); foreach( $post_types as $post_type => $post_type_name ): ?> <h2>Latest <?php echo $post_type_name; ?> Posts:</h2> <ul> <?php $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => 5, ‘post_type’ => $post_type ); $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args … Read more
You can see everything returned via php’s var_dump or print_r: $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(); echo ‘<pre>’; print_r( $recent_posts ); echo ‘</pre>’; This will reveal that the date is stored in post_date: foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ): echo $recent[‘post_date’]; endforeach; Or to format the date, use php’s date and strtotime: echo date( ‘l F jS’, strtotime( $recent[‘post_date’] … Read more