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How to Create Asides in WordPress 2.3 or up

26 September 2007 1,051 views 6 Comments

A few themes I’ve been testing out have been failing when it comes to creating asides in the sidebar.

I wanted to put my asides in the sidebar in WordPress 2.3 and started doing some snooping through the new database structure… mainly the two tables wp_terms and wp_term_taxonomy.

You can copy and paste the following code into your sidebar (above or below the if widgetized fuction).

<li><h2>Asides</h2>
<ul>
<?php
$tagid = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT term_id FROM wp_terms WHERE slug = 'asides'");
$get_asides = new WP_Query('cat=' .$tagid. '&showposts=5&orderby=post_date&order=desc');
while ($get_asides->have_posts()) : $get_asides->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
</li>

The previous code basically extracts the numbered id from the category named “asides”, puts that id number into a loop that only includes 1 category (by id)… then displays just the title of that “Aside”.

I will be writing a small widgetized plugin for this when I get home this afternoon. The plans for the plugin are to offer a few options for customizing the way asides are shown.


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6 Comments »

  • ZMAng said:

    Hi. Great post mate. Just wanted to ask how you’ll be getting the asides to work with tags. The “cat” parameter doesn’t seem to work with tags. Is it just me?

    # 28 September 2007 at 11:33 am
  • Mark Penix (author) said:

    @ZMAng - are you using WP 2.3? I’m using it on this blog and the exact same code…

    # 28 September 2007 at 12:06 pm
  • J-Mill said:

    I really like what you have here. I think I’ll be adding your blog to my blog roll.
    J

    # 28 September 2007 at 2:02 pm
  • ZMAng said:

    Yeap, I am. Hmm, that’s weird. Thanks though.

    # 28 September 2007 at 4:30 pm
  • Mark Penix (author) said:

    @ZMAng, I missed what you were saying last time… Tags is a little bit different than WP categories… I’m looking into it and I’ll email you when I find out how to do it.

    @jmill, glad you like it! I appreciate the link as well… anything you’d like to see around here?

    # 28 September 2007 at 7:35 pm
  • Actualizado a Wordpress 2.3.1 : EREBE said:

    [...] habilitar los asides esta vez utilicé el hack descrito en Creating Asides in Wordpress 2.3 que funciona a la perfección, junto con una modificación en el loop para evitar que aparezca el [...]

    # 3 November 2007 at 2:29 pm

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