Jase
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G'day!
I used the following guide (http://www.cozmoslabs.com/2009/06/26/thematic-featured-posts/) to create a featured post in wordpress. Thanks, it works great. However I want to remove the post that is featured from the loop below the feature.
How would I go about this?
Here it is. Tested it and it works! :)
function featured_posts(){
$ids = array(); // here we'll save the post id's that are listed in the featured area
$my_query = new WP_Query('tag=featured&showposts=3');
echo '<ul id="featured-posts">';
$feat_class = array();
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$feat_class = array();
// Category for the post queried
foreach ( (array) get_the_category() as $cat )
$feat_class[] = 'category-' . $cat->slug;
$feat_class = join(" ", $feat_class);
?>
<li id="featured-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="<?php echo $feat_class; ?>">
<?php
$posttitle = '<h4><a href="';
$posttitle .= get_permalink();
$posttitle .= '" title="';
$posttitle .= __('Permalink to ', 'thematic') . the_title_attribute('echo=0');
$posttitle .= '" rel="bookmark">';
$posttitle .= get_the_title();
$posttitle .= "</a></h4>\n";
echo $posttitle;
the_excerpt();
?>
</li><!-- .post -->
<?php
$ids[] = get_the_ID();
endwhile;
echo '</ul>';
//Recreate the main loop here so we have access to the $ids array
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
<?php
// If an ID has been listed in the above list we won't list it again.
if (!in_array(get_the_ID(), $ids)) { ?>
<div id="post-<?php the_ID() ?>" class="<?php thematic_post_class() ?>">
<?php thematic_postheader(); ?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php thematic_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' .__('Pages:', 'thematic') . '&after=</div>') ?>
</div>
<?php thematic_postfooter(); ?>
</div><!-- .post -->
<?php comments_template();
if ($count==$thm_insert_position) {
get_sidebar('index-insert');
}
$count = $count + 1;
}
endwhile;
}
add_action('thematic_above_indexloop','featured_posts');
// We'll remove the main thematic loop because we recreated it in the above function.
function remove_thematic_indexloop(){
remove_action('thematic_indexloop','thematic_index_loop');
}
add_action('init','remove_thematic_indexloop');Here it is:
<?php
$ids = array(); // here we'll save the post id's that are listed in the featured area. It's a global variable
function featured_posts(){
global $ids; //telling php to use the global variable
$my_query = new WP_Query('tag=featured&showposts=3');
echo '<div id="featured-holder"><ul id="featured-posts">';
$feat_class = array();
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$feat_class = array();
// Category for the post queried
foreach ( (array) get_the_category() as $cat )
$feat_class[] = 'category-' . $cat->slug;
$feat_class = join(" ", $feat_class);
?>
<li id="featured-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="<?php echo $feat_class; ?>">
<?php
$posttitle = '<h4><a href="';
$posttitle .= get_permalink();
$posttitle .= '" title="';
$posttitle .= __('Permalink to ', 'thematic') . the_title_attribute('echo=0');
$posttitle .= '" rel="bookmark">';
$posttitle .= get_the_title();
$posttitle .= "</a></h4>\n";
echo $posttitle;
the_excerpt();
?>
</li><!-- .post -->
<?php
$ids[] = get_the_ID();
endwhile;
echo '</ul></div>';
}
add_action('thematic_belowheader','featured_posts');
// We'll remove the main thematic loop because we recreated it in the above function.
function remove_thematic_indexloop(){
remove_action('thematic_indexloop','thematic_index_loop');
}
add_action('init','remove_thematic_indexloop');
function child_indexloop(){
global $ids; //telling php to use the global variable
//Recreate the main loop and exclude the posts that have been displayed
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
<?php
// If an ID has been listed in the above list we won't list it again.
if (!in_array(get_the_ID(), $ids)) { ?>
<div id="post-<?php the_ID() ?>" class="<?php thematic_post_class() ?>">
<?php thematic_postheader(); ?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php thematic_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' .__('Pages:', 'thematic') . '&after=</div>') ?>
</div>
<?php thematic_postfooter(); ?>
</div><!-- .post -->
<?php comments_template();
if ($count==$thm_insert_position) {
get_sidebar('index-insert');
}
$count = $count + 1;
}
endwhile;
}
add_action('thematic_indexloop', 'child_indexloop');Don't forget to post a link to your site here when it's done! Curious how it turned out.
Problems with Featured Posts.
I've tried everything I know of to get this working, but the feature post will not show up in my child theme. I've inserted the function, applied the style to my css, but no luck.
Here is the function as it stand now. Any help would be awesome.
http://uberlawyer.com/n_controll/
<?php
// Featured Post
function featured_posts(){
$my_query = new WP_Query('tag=featured&showposts=1');
echo '<ul id="19">';
$feat_class = array();
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$feat_class = array();
// Category for the post queried
foreach ( (array) get_the_category() as $cat )
$feat_class[] = 'about-our-firm' . $cat->slug;
$feat_class = join(" ", $feat_class);
?>
<li id="featured-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="<?php echo $feat_class; ?>">
<?php
$posttitle = '<h4><a href="';
$posttitle .= get_permalink();
$posttitle .= '" title="';
$posttitle .= __('Permalink to ', 'thematic') . the_title_attribute('echo=0');
$posttitle .= '" rel="bookmark">';
$posttitle .= get_the_title();
$posttitle .= "</h4>\n";
echo $posttitle;
the_excerpt();
?>
<!-- .post -->
<?php
endwhile;
echo '';
}
add_action('thematic_above_indexloop','featured_posts');
?>
You don't have a single post with the tag FEATURED as defined here:
$my_query = new WP_Query('tag=featured&showposts=1');Since there's nothing to display it doesn't!
Glad you got it working but I did mention it :)
The featured posts will be inserted on the home page before the rest of the articles. We’ll display the latest 3 posts which are tagged ‘featured’.
Thanks for this! I am using the last bunch of code posted above (removing the main thematic loop and sitting above the content area) and it works great, --
-- except, I only want the featured posts to appear on the homepage, not the single post or standalone pages. How can this be done?
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