Features of “Latest Posts by Category Archive”

• Can be used via hard-coding inside page templates;
• Can be used as a widget in your widget-ready areas;
• Can be used via shortcodes inside pages’ or posts’ content;
• Can be used either inside or outside the loop;
• Can limit the archive to certain categories, or exclude certain categories;
• Can display or hide post dates;
• Can display or hide post excerpts and adjust their length in words;
• Can set the number of listed post from 1 to ‘all’.

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I would like to show you an example to create xml playlist. So you can use this in flash mp3 player like JW Player. I have created songs table in my database. songs_id, album_id, songs_title and songs_link fields are included in this table.

In PHP file :

<?php
 header('Content-type: text/xml');
 $db_host = "localhost" ; // MySQL Host
 $db_user = "root" ;    // Database Username
 $db_password = "" ; // Database Password
 $db_name = "music" ; // Database Name

 $db_link = mysql_connect("$db_host","$db_user","$db_password");
 mysql_select_db($db_name, $db_link);

?>
 <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
 <trackList>
 <?php
 $album_id = $_GET[aid];
 $songs = "SELECT * From songs WHERE album_id='$album_id' ORDER BY song_title ASC";
 $songs_list = mysql_query( $songs, $db_link );
 $songs_total = mysql_num_rows( $songs_list );
 if( $songs_total == 0 )    {    exit;    }
 for( $f = 0; $f < $songs_total; $f++ )
 {
 $each = mysql_fetch_assoc( $songs_list );
 ?>
 <track>
 <title><?=$each['song_title']?></title>
 <location>http://www.yourdomain.com/<?=$each['song_link']?></location>
 </track>
 <?php

 } // End of loop

 ?>
 </trackList>
 </playlist>

Then you can use call this file with album id like xml.php?aid=10.

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However, this is a lot of lines in the file. If you want to put into a lot of pages, all of code you need to put into those pages. We have to take care about this. That’s while I have changed to class and functions. That’s very easy to use. I will share it back.

Firstly I have created class and function in the paganition.php file.

For usage :

require_once('pagination.php');
 $sql = 'SELECT * FROM contact';
 $page_name = "page.php";

 //  pagination($query, $adjacents, $row_per_page, $page_name)
 $pager = new pagination($sql, 3, 20, $page_name );
 $rs = $pager->paginate();

 while($each = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs))
 {
 // Your Loop Here
 echo $each[name];
 }

 // Pages Navagation
 echo $pager->pages();

So, Page links will be come like “pagename.php?page=” . If you would like to use with .htaccess some think like http://www.yourdomain.com/content/page/page_number , you can easily to change at pagination.php . Find, “?page=” and replace with “/” . Then, you can use at page name like

$page_name = "http://www.yourdomain.com/content/page";

In CSS.

div.pagination {
 padding: 3px;
 margin: 3px;
}

div.pagination a {
 padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
 margin: 2px;
 border: 1px solid #AAAADD;

 text-decoration: none; /* no underline */
 color: #000099;
}

div.pagination a:hover, div.pagination a:active {
 border: 1px solid #000099;

 color: #000;
}

div.pagination span.current {
 padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
 margin: 2px;
 border: 1px solid #000099;

 font-weight: bold;
 background-color: #000099;
 color: #FFF;
}
div.pagination span.disabled {
 padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
 margin: 2px;
 border: 1px solid #EEE;

 color: #DDD;
}

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Firstly, I have created example xml file as songs.xml like :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<currentsongs>
 <song>
 <title>Song Title One</title>
 <artist>artist name</artist>

 </song>

 <song>
 <title>Song Title Two</title>
 <artist>Sec artist name</artist>

 </song>
</currentsongs>

Then in php file :

<?php

 $objDOM = new DOMDocument();
 $objDOM->load("songs.xml"); //make sure path is correct

 $songs = $objDOM->getElementsByTagName("song");

 foreach( $songs as $value )
 {
 $title = $value->getElementsByTagName("title");
 $song_title  = $title->item(0)->nodeValue;

 $artist = $value->getElementsByTagName("artist");
 $artist_name  = $artist->item(0)->nodeValue;

 echo "$song_title - $artist_name <br>";
 }

?>

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If you want to show related post in you current post , you can use simple way to show. You just need to copy and paste under following codes into single.php file of your theme. This code will display related posts based on the current post tag(s). It must be pasted within the loop.

<?php
//for use in the loop, list 5 post titles related to first tag on current post
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
if ($tags) {
 echo 'Related Posts';
 $first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;
 $args=array(
 'tag__in' => array($first_tag),
 'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
 'showposts'=>5,
 'caller_get_posts'=>1
 );
 $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
 if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
 while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
 <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
 <?php
 endwhile;
 }
}
?>

source : How to: Show related posts without a plugin

Create WordPress Shortcode for related posts

You can use WordPress shortcode too.

To create the shortcode, simply open your functions.php file and paste the shortcode function:

function related_posts_shortcode( $atts ) {
 extract(shortcode_atts(array(
 'limit' => '5',
 ), $atts));

 global $wpdb, $post, $table_prefix;

 if ($post->ID) {
 $retval = '<ul>';
 // Get tags
 $tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
 $tagsarray = array();
 foreach ($tags as $tag) {
 $tagsarray[] = $tag->term_id;
 }
 $tagslist = implode(',', $tagsarray);

 // Do the query
 $q = "SELECT p.*, count(tr.object_id) as count
 FROM $wpdb->term_taxonomy AS tt, $wpdb->term_relationships AS tr, $wpdb->posts AS p WHERE tt.taxonomy ='post_tag' AND tt.term_taxonomy_id = tr.term_taxonomy_id AND tr.object_id  = p.ID AND tt.term_id IN ($tagslist) AND p.ID != $post->ID
 AND p.post_status = 'publish'
 AND p.post_date_gmt < NOW()
 GROUP BY tr.object_id
 ORDER BY count DESC, p.post_date_gmt DESC
 LIMIT $limit;";

 $related = $wpdb->get_results($q);
 if ( $related ) {
 foreach($related as $r) {
 $retval .= '
 <li><a title="'.wptexturize($r->post_title).'" href="'.get_permalink($r->ID).'">'.wptexturize($r->post_title).'</a></li>
';
 }
 } else {
 $retval .= '
 <li>No related posts found</li>
';
 }
 $retval .= '</ul>
';
 return $retval;
 }
 return;
}
add_shortcode('related_posts', 'related_posts_shortcode');

Once done, you can use the following shortcode in your posts to display the related content:

[related_posts]

Source : WordPress shortcode to display related posts

Show related post from same category

If you want to get related post base on category , you can simply add some code in function.php file. It displays posts depending of the category. This function have three parameters -

• $limit (int) amount of posts to display
• $catName (bool) echo category name, TRUE or FALSE
• $title (string) String for a text before all entries

/**
 * related post with category
 * @param: int $limit limit of posts
 * @param: bool $catName echo category name
 * @param: string $title string before all entries
 * Example: echo fb_cat_related_posts();
 */
if ( !function_exists('fb_get_cat_related_posts') ) {
 function fb_get_cat_related_posts( $limit = 5, $catName = TRUE, $title = '<h3>Recent Pages</h3>' ) {

 if ( !is_single() )
 return;

 $limit = (int) $limit;
 $output  = '';
 $output .= $title;

 $category = get_the_category();
 $category = (int) $category[0]->cat_ID;

 if ( $catName )
 $output .= __( 'Kategorie: ' ) . get_cat_name($category) . ' ';

 $output .= '<ul>';

 $args = array(
 'numberposts' => $limit,
 'category' => $category,
 );

 $recentposts = get_posts( $args );
 foreach($recentposts as $post) {
 setup_postdata($post);
 $output .= '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . get_the_title($post->ID) . '</a></li>';
 }

 $output .= '</ul>';

 return $output;
 }
}

Source : Related Posts on Category

Display comments and trackbacks separately

Let’s face it: When you’re reading comments on a blog post, trackbacks are annoying. It’s way better to display it separately from comments.
Open and edit the comments.php file from your theme.

Find the comment loop:

foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
 // Comments are displayed here
endforeach;

Replace it with the following:

<ul>
 <?php //Displays comments only
 foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
 <?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
 <?php if($comment_type == 'comment') { ?>
 <li>//Comment code goes here</li>
 <?php }
 endforeach;
</ul>

<ul>
 <?php //Displays trackbacks only
 foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
 <?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
 <?php if($comment_type != 'comment') { ?>
 <li><?php comment_author_link() ?></li>
 <?php }
 endforeach;
</ul>

Soruce : Jamie asked: “How can I display comments and trackbacks separately?”

List Future Posts

If you want to display list of future post what you scheduled to be publish, simply paste this code where you would like to be displayed.

<div id="zukunft">
 <div id="zukunft_header"><p>Future events</p></div>
 <?php query_posts('showposts=10&post_status=future'); ?>
 <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
 <div >
 <p class><b><?php the_title(); ?></b><?php edit_post_link('e',' (',')'); ?><br />
 <span><?php the_time('j. F Y'); ?></span></p>
 </div>
 <?php endwhile; else: ?><p>No future events scheduled.</p><?php endif; ?>
</div>

Source : How to: List future posts

Show popular posts without a plugin

If you want to show popular post in your post or side bar, you just paste following code where you would like to displayed.

<h2>Popular Posts</h2>
<ul>
<?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5");
foreach ($result as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
$postid = $post->ID;
$title = $post->post_title;
$commentcount = $post->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>

<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>" title="<?php echo $title ?>">
<?php echo $title ?></a> {<?php echo $commentcount ?>}</li>
<?php } } ?>

</ul>

Source : Create Your Own Popular Post Page

Highlight Searched Text In Search Results

If you want to highlight searched text in search resualt, you can get after following step.

Open your search.php file and find the the_title() function. Replace it with the following:

echo $title;

Now, just before the modified line, add this code:

<?php
 $title     = get_the_title();
 $keys= explode(" ",$s);
 $title     = preg_replace('/('.implode('|', $keys) .')/iu',
 '<strong>\0</strong>',
 $title);
?>

Save the search.php file and open style.css. Append the following line to it:

strong.search-excerpt { background: yellow; }

Source : Enlight searched text in search results

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