Not Geeky!

If you want to customize your Recent Post listing, one of the most popular Plug ins, is the c2c_get_recent_posts php function. However, of all the plug-ins that I’ve tried so far this is definitely not easiest one to use, that is if you use it with WordPress 2.7. (To be a bit more specific: I want to be able to show the 5 most recent posts (not pages) , with a date (format mmm-yy) and some text of the post)

I first started making the stupid mistake of forgetting to use some kind of plug-in to execute code in text widgets. So, when I had figured this out I installed Exec-PHP which made big improvement. (Why is this not a standard WordPress feature?)

However, the next problem was it was showing Pages as Posts so to speak.  Documentation says there should be an option to filter out the pages. However, this doesn’t seem to work with 2.7. So I tried to filter by specifying the Category. Then I found that you needed the category ID, which isn’t showing on any of the admin pages. However editing the Category of your choice gives it away: the url shows the Category ID and if that’s not good enough there always is another plug-in. Unfortunately this functionality is also broken with WordPress 2.7.

Last but not least I wanted to display the beginning of a post, say the first 5 to 10 words of the text. According to the documentation you’re supposed to use the excerpt function. Unfortunately it’s showing here the same text (of the first posting) with each post.

What does seem to work though is filtering by user. Once you’ve figured out which user has which ID you have at least some kind of filtering. I do hope a fix will be released soon. Scott, are you there? Please? Pretty, pretty please?

Hopefully I can give you an update soon…

[Update]
Shame on me!
Today I looked into the problem again. All of a sudden I discovered that I was using version 1.1. My admin panel told me there was a 1.5 available. I downloaded it. However things only got worse. I couldn’t see any postings anymore. Then I discovered that Scott had already released a version 3.0. But this version is NOT shown if you make use of the standard Plugin browser, you have to go to Scotts homepage!!

SO MAKE SURE YOU INSTALL VERSION 3.0! (if you’re using WP 2.7)

[Update 2]
Now, just one more thing: Date format in another language (Dutch). I’ve heard of the setlocale function but I can’t get it to work….

Yes this works really well, thanks Barry!

Also have a look here. For complete Dutchification…

Cheers,

Edwin

I have been playing these 2 cd’s in my car for ages now.

If you buy any of these songs at Amazon you’ll get them at 256 kbps which is slightly better than you would get them from the Itunes store.

O yeah, the title says experiment. I just wanted to test a see how easy it is to add this kind of Amazon Associates stuff. I would say just as easy as adding Google Ads to your page. Main benefit is though that this is content wise way more interesting.

My personal fav at the moment is the Strange Museum (2nd album).

And yours?

Cheers,

Edwin

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo

Cheers,
Edwin

Excellent: Lewis Hamilton!
Well OK it might be a viral from Vodaphone, but at least it’s great fun to watch.

Can’t always be serious, now can we?

Cheers,

Edwin

“Why do my permalinks not work?” I asked myself in one of my first postings, actually just after I had figured out what they were.  Somehow the problem got solved and I forgot all about it. The other day I got bussy on another website, set the permalink settings, and the very same problem occurred. Vloek!

As it appears, it’s all about the htaccess file.

It really needs the line:
RewriteEngine On

I copied the htAccess file from a proper working installation (root directory of your installation), and yes, a bit later it was working!

Proper functioning htaccess file!

Cheers

Edwin