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WordPress create a custom Sidebar Posts Query

Posted on August 12, 2010 by David Orlo

I have been trying to learn how to make my own custom WordPress sidebar widgets because every theme uses their own custom layout and I prefer a specific layout which I can only acomplish by manually editing the WordPress theme sidebar PHP file. In this post I will show you how to make your own custom sidebar widget style entry with my “Recent Updates” widget as an example. First you need to navigate to your themes sidebar.php file which is located in the admin section under Appearance/Editor. Find the sidebar.php file and select it for editing. In the main window

WordPress Using rewind_posts() to show multiple Custom Queries

Posted on July 26, 2010 by David Orlo

I searched for a while on how to do this and finally think I figured it out but it still needs to be tweaked. First you need to create your custom queries, I have created 2 here which pull from different categories. I searched for a while on how to do this and finally think I figured it out but it still needs to be tweaked. First you need to create your custom queries, I have created 2 here which pull from different categories. Replace With After the loop is finished (somewhere around the endif / or equivalent) Add Then

WordPress wp_get_archives from specific category ?

Posted on July 26, 2010 by David Orlo

While trying to figure out how I could show posts from two categories but always keep one category on top I finally gave up. The best I could find was to run multiple custom queries using rewind_posts() but even this was difficult to carry from theme to theme as I changed my mind quite often. What I finally decided on was to exclude specific posts on the home page while keeping my sticky at the top and in the side bar I would query post from a specific category. First I began searching how to use wp_get_archives to show posts

WordPress – Show Posts from Specific Categories on Homepage

Posted on June 17, 2010 by David Orlo

This post will explain the proceedure to show posts only from specifc or multiple categories on your WordPress home page. Enter the Admin section of your WordPress site then go to the Appearance => Editor =>. From the right select home.php (if it exists) or index.php (if home.php does not exist). You will want to add code directly above “The Loop” I have found several ways to do this but only a few have worked for me. I will list them below. I have found this to be the most reliable way of doing this. I have revised this post