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    Plugin: Customizable Post Listings
    <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/>


[Notes <#notes>] | [Installation <#installation>] | [Functions
<#functions>] | [Examples <#examples>] | [Acknowledgements <#acknowledge>]
Name:
Customizable Post Listings
Author:
Scott Reilly
Version:
1.1
Last updated:
27 September 2004
Download:
[ zip </wp-plugins/customizable-post-listings.zip> ] | [ view source
(.phps) </wp-plugins/customizable-post-listings.phps> ]
Description:

Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts,
Random Posts, and other post listings using the post information of your
choosing in an easily customizable manner. You can narrow post searches
by specifying categories and/or authors, among other things.

Notes:

List of percent substitution tags supported:


        %comments_count%  // Number of comments for post
        %comments_fancy%  // Fancy reporting of comments: (see
        get_recent_tagmap())
        %comments_url%   // URL to top of comments section for post
        %comments_URL%  // Post title linked to the top of the comments
        section on post's permalink page
        %last_comment_date%  // Date of last comment for post
        %last_comment_id%  // ID for last comment for post
        %last_comment_URL%  // URL to most recent comment for post
        %last_commenter%  // Author of last comment for post
        %last_commenter_URL // Linked (if author URL provided) of author
        of last comment for post
        %post_author%  // Author for post
        %post_author_count%  // Number of posts made by post author
        %post_author_posts%  // Link to page of all of post author's posts
        %post_author_url%    // Linked (if URL provided) name of post author
        %post_content%  // Full content of the post
        %post_date%    // Date for post
        %post_excerpt%  // Excerpt for post
        %post_excerpt_short% // Customizably shorter excerpt, suitable
        for sidebar usage
        %post_id%    // ID for post
        %post_modified%  // Last modified date for post
        %post_title%    // Title for post
        %post_url%    // URL for post
        %post_URL%    // Post title linked to post's permalink page

Installation:

   1. Download the file customizable-post-listings.zip
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/customizable-post-listings.zip>
      and unzip it into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
      -OR-
      Copy and paste the the code ( customizable-post-listings.phps
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/customizable-post-listings.phps>
      ) into a file called customizable-post-listings.php, and put that
      file into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. /Please ensure you
      do not introduce any spaces or other characters before the <?php
      or after the ?>/
   2. Optional: Change configuration options in the file to your liking.
      In-code comments should help you there.
   3. Activate the plugin from your WordPress admin 'Plugins' page.
   4. Include one or more of the templates defined below into a template
      file (most likely sidebar.php)

Functions:


        function c2c_get_recent_posts ($num_posts = 5,
          $format = "<li>%post_date%: %post_URL%</li>",
          $categories = '',
          $orderby = 'date',
          $order = 'DESC',
          $offset = 0,
          $date_format = 'm/d/Y',
          $authors = '',
          $include_passworded_posts = false)


        function c2c_get_random_posts($num_posts = 5,
                $format = "<li>%post_date%: %post_URL%</li>",
                $categories = '',
                $order = 'DESC',
                $offset = 0,
                $date_format = 'm/d/Y',
                $authors = '',
                $include_passworded_posts = false)


        function c2c_get_recently_commented ($num_posts = 5,
          $format = "<li>%comments_URL%<br />%last_comment_date%<br
        />%comments_fancy%</li>",
          $categories = '',
          $order = 'DESC',
          $offset = 0,
          $date_format = 'm/d/Y h:i a',
          $authors = '',
          $include_passworded_posts = false)


        function c2c_get_recently_modified ($num_posts = 5,
          $format = "<li>%post_URL%<br />Updated: %post_modified%</li>",
          $categories = '',
          $order = 'DESC',
          $offset = 0,
          $date_format = 'm/d/Y',
          $authors = '',
          $include_passworded_posts = false)

    * $num_posts : The number of posts to return; default is 5
    * $format : A string that uses percent substitution tags to define
      the data you want displayed for each listing and how you want it
      displayed;set it to '' (two single-quotes) to return an array of
      the requested post objects without outputting anything.
    * $categories : A space separated list of category IDs to match
      against; leave empty to consider posts from any category
    * $order : The order with which the post listing should be sorted,
      either 'ASC' (for ascending) or 'DESC' (for descending); default
      is 'DESC'
    * $offset : The number of posts to skip; default is 0
    * $date_format : Date format string, PHP-style, if different from
      the blog's default date-format string
    * $authors : A space separated list of author IDs to match against;
      leave empty to consider posts from any blog author
    * $include_passworded_posts : A boolean value, either 'true' or
      'false', indicating if passworded posts should be considered in
      the post search

Tips & Examples:

The "Recent" listings on the sidebar of this site all use this plugin.

The simplest examples would be the following (for brevity's sake, in the
examples I'm going to specify 3 as the number of posts I want returned):


        <ul>
           Recent Posts
          <?php c2c_get_recent_posts(3); ?>
        </ul>

Would output something like:

    * Recent Posts 08/03/2004: Patch: Dealing with multiple <!–more–>
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/03/patch-dealing-with-multiple-more/>
    * 08/03/2004: Patch: Balancing pre-'more' tags
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/03/patch-balancing-pre-more-tags/>
    * 08/03/2004: Patch: Fixing balanceTags()
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/03/fixing-balancetags/>

------------------------------------------------------------------------


        <ul>Recently Commented
           <?php c2c_get_recently_commented(3); ?>
        </ul>

Would output something like:

    * Recently Commented Plugin: Category Image(s)
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/27/plugin-category-images/#comments>
      08/23/2004 10:25 am
      14 Comments
    * Plugin: Get Custom Field Values
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/30/plugin-get-custom/#comments>
      08/22/2004 04:35 pm
      18 Comments
    * Plugin: wpPHPMailer
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/28/plugin-wpphpmailer/#comments>
      08/16/2004 01:15 am
      11 Comments

------------------------------------------------------------------------


        <ul>Recently Updated
           <?php c2c_get_recently_modified(3); ?>
        </ul>

Would output something like:

    * Recently Updated Plugin: Get Custom Field Values
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/30/plugin-get-custom/>
      Updated: 08/22/2004
    * Plugin: wpPHPMailer
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/28/plugin-wpphpmailer/>
      Updated: 08/17/2004
    * Plugin: Hide or Cut Post Text
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/07/25/plugin-hide-or-cut-post-text/>
      Updated: 08/17/2004

------------------------------------------------------------------------

But what you may really want is to run the Recent Posts/Recently
Commented Posts/Recently Updated Posts/Random Posts calls and customize
the listing output. That's where the percent substitution tags come into
play. The second argument to each of the three functions above is the
$format argument. $format is a string that represents how each post
found by the function should be output. Any percent tags (as listed and
defined above) will be replaced with the appropriate data.

So, let's say you want a list of recent posts, to include the post
author's name linked to the archive of all of that author's posts, plus
a short excerpt of the post. And let's say you only want posts from
category '34′. You'd do this:


        <ul>
        <?php c2c_get_recent_posts(3, "<li>%post_date%: %post_URL%<br
        />by: %post_author_posts%<br />%post_excerpt_short%</li>", "34"); ?>
        </ul>

Which would output something like:

    * 07/25/2004: Plugin: Hide or Cut Post Text
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/07/25/plugin-hide-or-cut-post-text/>
      by: Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/author/site-admin/>
      I'm pleased to announce the release…
    * 07/08/2004: Plugin: Random File
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/07/08/plugin-random-file/>
      by: Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/author/site-admin/>
      I just finished the final touches…
    * 07/08/2004: Plugin: Auto-hyperlink URLs
      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/07/08/plugin-auto-hyperlink-urls/>
      by: Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/author/site-admin/>
      Finally, I managed to tackle a…

Release Log:

    * 27 Sep 2004 : v1.2 –
          o Added the ability to get random posts, and added the
            convenience function |c2c_get_random_posts()| to get them
          o Functions will now consider sticky posts (those in which
            'post_status' gets set to 'sticky') in addition to published
            posts
          o Changed license from BSD-new to MIT
    * 05 Sep 2004 : v1.02 — Bugfix to immediately return if no posts
      match criteria
    * 03 Sep 2004 : v1.01 — Bugfix for when |$authors| has more than one
      author
    * 27 Aug 2004 : v1.0 — Released to the public

Copyright & Disclaimer:

Copyright (c) 2004 by Scott Reilly (aka coffee2code)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Acknowledgements:
N/A


      229 Responses to “Plugin: Customizable Post Listings”

   1.
      Jonas replied on August 31st, 2004 at 6:30 AM EST <#comment-142>

      This looks very promising ! I already started using it to generate
      title lists. Where would I toggle a "delimit to last 7 days"
      function , similar to this Mysql string
      " between date_add(current_date, interval -7 day)
      and date_add(current_date, interval 1 day) " ? All hints are
      warmly welcomed ! Best Regards
      Jonas / Germany

   2.
      bookmarks
      <http://www.hauntedpalace.net/bookmarks/index.php/archives/2004/08/31/10.54.27/>
      replied on August 31st, 2004 at 10:00 AM EST <#comment-143>

      **
      customizable post listings plugin

   3.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on August 31st, 2004 at
      6:20 PM EST <#comment-144>

      *Jonas:* Well, as it stands now the plugin doesn't directly
      support specifying a date range. I'll consider such a feature for
      a future version. I'm open to suggestions, though.

   4.
      Ian <http://www.the-way-to-the-centre.org.uk> replied on September
      2nd, 2004 at 4:51 AM EST <#comment-145>

      Is there a quick way to exclude a single category, or will I have
      to list all the categories IDs that I want to show? Either way it
      is just about what I am looking for.

   5.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 2nd, 2004
      at 8:11 AM EST <#comment-146>

      Category exclusions is trickier business, but I have a plan in
      mind on how to go about doing it. Should be part of the next
      release for this plugin, but I can't quote you a date on that. For
      now, yeah, you'd have to explicitly list all the categories you want.

   6.
      Trevor <http://oreneta.com/baldie/blog> replied on September 3rd,
      2004 at 7:58 AM EST <#comment-149>

      Everything seems to work as described except when I try to use
      $authors, which produces the following error:

      Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
      /blah/blah/blah/wp-content/plugins/customizable-post-listings.php
      on line 76

      |Database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax near ')
      GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 1, 5'
      at line 1]
      SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts WHERE wp_posts.post_date <=
      '2004-09-03 14:49:04' AND wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' AND
      wp_posts.post_password = '' AND ( ) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY
      wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 1, 5|

   7.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 3rd, 2004
      at 8:27 AM EST <#comment-151>

      Found the problem. Try grabbing the plugin again, version 1.01,
      and let me know if that one works for you. Thanks for the problem
      report!

   8.
      Trevor <http://oreneta.com/baldie/blog> replied on September 3rd,
      2004 at 9:13 AM EST <#comment-152>

      Thanks, but doesn't seem to do the trick. Tried 1.01 and, using
      (1, "%post_URL%
      %post_excerpt_short%", "", "date", "DESC", 0, "m/d/Y", "1″,
      false), now get:

      Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
      /blah/blah/blah/wp-content/plugins/customizable-post-listings.php
      on line 76

      |Database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax near ')
      GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 1'
      at line 1]
      SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts WHERE wp_posts.post_date <=
      '2004-09-03 16:05:05' AND wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' AND
      wp_posts.post_password = '' AND ( ) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY
      wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 1
      Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
      //blah/blah//wp-content/plugins/customizable-post-listings.php on
      line 140|

   9.
      Trevor <http://oreneta.com/baldie/blog> replied on September 3rd,
      2004 at 9:18 AM EST <#comment-153>

      Sorry, gives foreach() error on line 140 as well as 76

  10.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 3rd, 2004
      at 5:11 PM EST <#comment-154>

      Hmm, it seems to work for me trying what you indicated. It's
      almost as if the function isn't seeing the value of $authors. (The
      second bug being reported on line 140 is a result of the first
      bug, and trivial to fix.) You are calling the
      |c2c_get_recent_posts()| function, or one of the other two? Would
      you be up for me suggesting some debugging suggestions (or I could
      send you some debugging versions of the plugin) to try to track
      down the problem?

  11.
      Trevor <http://oreneta.com/baldie/blog> replied on September 3rd,
      2004 at 5:50 PM EST <#comment-155>

      Yep, using c2c_get_recent_posts(). Re debugging: glad to do
      whatever you think might help

  12.
      mikey replied on September 4th, 2004 at 2:01 AM EST <#comment-156>

      I am using the sticky posts hack and due to this I get this error
      for the comment part.

      *Warning*: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
      *c:\sites\single1\easydoesit\webroot\wp-content\plugins\customizable-post-listings.php*
      on line *140*

      I'm sure Ill get this when my lates post becomes a sticky too.
      Do you have a way to get around this because I really want this
      plugin on my site.

  13.
      mikey replied on September 4th, 2004 at 6:58 PM EST <#comment-158>

      OK so I figured it out.

      You have the line:
      |$sql .= "WHERE $tableposts.post_date <= '$now' AND
      $tableposts.post_status = 'publish' ";|

      which of course insures that it only looks for published posts but
      I have a value that is 'sticky' in my post_status field.

      I changed the line to:
      |$sql .= "WHERE $tableposts.post_date <= '$now' AND
      $tableposts.post_status != 'draft' AND $tableposts.post_status !=
      'static' AND $tableposts.post_status != 'private'";|

      so that it would look at the 'publish' and 'sticky' posts.

      I originally tried:
      |$sql .= "WHERE $tableposts.post_date <= '$now' AND
      $tableposts.post_status = 'publish' OR $tableposts.post_status =
      'sticky' ";|

      but this caused wacky extra not commented posts. I don't know why
      as I'm not a programmer.

      Anyways thats how I fixed it.

  14.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 5th, 2004
      at 9:59 AM EST <#comment-159>

      First off, I have updated the plugin with a slight tweak, so it is
      now up to version 1.02.

      *Trevor:* If you are comfortable with modifying the plugin code
      for debugging purposes, obtain the latest and where you see this line:


              $auths = explode(' ', $authors);

      Add a line before and two after it so it looks like this:


              echo "authors = ($authors)<br />";
              $auths = explode(' ', $authors);
              echo "auths ( "; print_r($auths); echo " )<br />";
              echo "is_array? (".is_array($auths).")<br />";

      Let me know what it says for your site.

  15.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 5th, 2004
      at 10:10 AM EST <#comment-160>

      *mikey:* What you tried initially would probably have worked if
      you added parentheses like so:


              $sql .= "WHERE $tableposts.post_date <= '$now' AND (
              $tableposts.post_status = 'publish' OR
              $tableposts.post_status = 'sticky' ) ";

      I am considering the addition of this change to the plugin. Thanks
      for reporting the issue and finding the fix!

  16.
      Trevor <http://oreneta.com/baldie/blog> replied on September 6th,
      2004 at 12:19 PM EST <#comment-162>

      Thanks Scott. Now there is no error message and, with author ID=1
      selected, posts for all authors are displayed, prefixed by:

      authors = (1)
      auths ( Array ( [0] => 1 ) )
      is_array? (1)

  17.
      beth <http://www.woolgathering.org.uk/soi2004/> replied on
      September 9th, 2004 at 6:30 AM EST <#comment-175>

      Please excuse me if I am being totally dumb here but is there a
      way that I can fix the dates into a UK format? I have my blog set
      to display dates in the way that we are used to nd I would like my
      recent lists to display day before month if at all possible

      Thanks
      Beth

  18.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 9th, 2004
      at 9:04 AM EST <#comment-177>

      *Beth:* You can send the date format as one of the arguments to
      the function. The date format you want, i.e. 31/08/2004 (Aug 31,
      2004), is achieved through the date format of 'd/m/Y'. You would
      use that like so:


              <?php c2c_get_recent_posts (5, "<li>%post_date%:
              %post_URL%</li>", '', 'date', 'DESC',  0, 'd/m/Y'); ?>

      (you have to explicitly define all the arguments before the
      |$date_format| argument)

      Or, alternatively, you could change the default value for the
      |$date_format| argument for each of the three functions by
      modifying the plugin file. Which, if you do, you should make note
      of so that in the event you upgrade the plugin you know what you
      need to change again (since upgrading will overwrite the plugin
      file).

  19.
      Josh Jarmin <http://www.radiantrock.com/blog/> replied on
      September 11th, 2004 at 12:35 AM EST <#comment-181>

      Is there a way to limit the posts and the excerpts to a certain
      number of words? I would like to use this but I am looking for
      this feature. Thanks!

  20.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 11th, 2004
      at 1:17 AM EST <#comment-182>

      *Josh:* Yes, but you have to change a value within the plugin file
      itself. Look for these lines in the function c2c_get_recent_tagmap():

      |
      //-- Some things you might want to configure ---–
      $excerpt_words = 6;  // Number of words to use for
      %post_excerpt_short%
      $excerpt_length = 50;   // Number of characters to use for
      %post_excerpt_short%, only used if $excerpt_words is 0
      |

      Modify those to your liking. Keep in mind that in the format
      string you'll want to use %post_excerpt_short%, which will honor
      the above settings, as opposed to %post_excerpt% which is the
      user- or WP- generated excerpt.

      Like the code commenting says, if you want to limit by number of
      words, change the value of |$excerpt_words| to something else if
      the default of 6 doesn't suit you. Or it you want the excerpt to
      be limited by number of characters, change |$excerpt_words| to 0
      and change the value of |$excerpt_length|.

      Does that accomplish what you need?

  21.
      Trevor <http://oreneta.com/baldie/blog> replied on September 11th,
      2004 at 7:12 AM EST <#comment-183>

      Scott, any further suggestions re the feedback I gave on Monday?

  22.
      poper replied on September 15th, 2004 at 12:12 PM EST <#comment-184>

      Hi, Scott, another great plugin.
      I wonder if it's possible to use a substitution tag in order to
      show the name of the category the post belong to, I mean, an
      output similar to this:
      * Personal: post_title …
      * Software: post titlel
      etc

      Thanks

  23.
      Trevor <http://oreneta.com/baldie/blog> replied on September 15th,
      2004 at 1:47 PM EST <#comment-186>

      OK, the author selector seems to work as long as ID doesn't equal
      1. Wonder why that is…

  24.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 16th, 2004
      at 12:53 AM EST <#comment-188>

      *Trevor:* Sorry to have taken so long to follow up with you. On a
      test blog I tried to recreate your problem but have so far been
      unsuccessful. I had a second author (with the most recent overall
      post), and when I indicated I only wanted posts for author '1′,
      the post for author '2′ got skipped. If I didn't specify an
      author, all posts were considered. And after examing the code, I
      can't see a reason why it wouldn't work like it's supposed to.
      I'll keep looking at it, but so far I'm coming up empty on it.

      *poper:* I'll add some sort of category substitution tag in the
      next release.

  25.
      Matt <http://tanctop.co.uk> replied on September 16th, 2004 at
      4:13 PM EST <#comment-189>

      is there anyway I could get this to grab a random post from a
      category instead of the latest post?

  26.
      Beth replied on September 17th, 2004 at 5:14 AM EST <#comment-190>

      Thanks Scott. The date problem was easily fixed when I was feeling
      more alert. Sorry to have been stupid about it - blame Plugin
      Overload. :-)

      I list all the recent days posts on my blog so really would like
      the Recent list to list the previous n posts on days!=today.

      Can that be done?

      Thanks

      Beth

  27.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 17th, 2004
      at 7:28 PM EST <#comment-191>

      *Matt:* Thanks for the suggestion. I will include the ability to
      get random posts in the next release, which should be within the
      next few days.

      *Beth:* Currently the plugin only supports skipping N posts and
      not posts from the last N days (where for your scenario N would be
      1). Unless, of course, you only posted a certain number of posts
      per day or something. Otherwise, I'll contemplate a way to honor
      the request, though no guarentees.

  28.
      tom <http://4angle.com/tom> replied on September 18th, 2004 at
      10:54 AM EST <#comment-193>

      great plugin scott, i'm just going to implement it on a site.

      using the most recent posts function, is there an easy way of only
      printing the date once, so you get a date, followed by all of the
      posts under that date, without printing another date until all of
      the posts for that date have been printed, and it is on to another
      date? eg:

      19/10/2004:
      Random Post 1
      Random Post 2
      Random Post 3

      18/10/2004:
      Random Post 4
      Random Post 5 etc. ?

  29.
      littleman09z <http://littleman09z.net> replied on September 18th,
      2004 at 6:05 PM EST <#comment-194>

      Hey, I just installed your plugin(nice!) there was only one
      problem…I put in the recenty posts ,recently commented, and
      recently updated.
      The recent posts and recently commented worked fun but recently
      updated did not work at all and said function not found( i think)
      i browsed through the comments here and didnt see anything.. so i
      decided to go view your code..thinkin that it cant be that
      bad..and i found that you didnt have
      |  
      <ul>Recently Updated
      <?php <em>c2c_get_recently_updated</em>(3); ?>
      </ul>
      |
      as a variable…and i saw one that said / modified / instead of /
      updated / so i changed updated to modifiend so it looked like
      |
      <ul>Recently Updated
         <?php c2c_get_recently_modified(3); ?>
      </ul>
      |
      instead and it worked fine!

  30.
      Beth replied on September 19th, 2004 at 8:52 AM EST <#comment-197>

      Thank you Scott.

      I've been looking at the code to see if I can modify it to meet a
      request from my users but a dunce like me needs significantly more
      comments in the code before attempting such ambition.

      My users would like a single list of recently updated/added
      material so that new posts, edited posts, AND commented posts all
      appear in the one list. I'm trying to make get_recently_modified
      to do the trick for me and failing miserably. I *think* what my
      users want to see is a single list that would give:

      Post Subject with link, Number of Comments - may be zero if new
      post - with link to most recent comment, and Author/Date/Time of
      the post/comment most recently added or edited.

      I said I would try but it seems beyond me. Can you offer any
      pointers on where to modify the code in order to get a single list?

      Thanks

  31.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 19th, 2004
      at 9:43 AM EST <#comment-198>

      *tom:* I'll consider your suggestion. There would be a number of
      changes necessary to accomplish what you ask, and I'm trying to be
      mindful of maintaining a balance of ease-of-use and complexity.

      *littleman09z:* Oops, thanks for that catch. You're right, the
      examples section referred to the non-existant
      |c2c_get_recently_updated|. As you figured out, the function I
      meant to write (and have now fixed) was |c2c_get_recently_modified|.

      *Beth:* Take a look at the sidebar and you'll see a "For Beth"
      section (this'll be temporary). It is a recently_modified listing
      that includes information about each listed post's most recent
      comment/commenter. Granted, it should be more pleasing about
      reporting non-existent comments. The command to get that list was:

      |<?php c2c_get_recently_modified(5,'<li>%post_URL%
      (%comments_count%)<br />Last comment: %last_commenter% at <a
      href="%last_comment_url%" title="Read the
      comment">%last_comment_date%</a></li>'); ?>|

      I could probably add a percent-substitution tag to repesent a link
      of the last_commenter's name linked to the comment, and a link of
      the last comment date to the last comment.

      A greater degree of difficulty is added if you want to order the
      listing based on both the recently-commented dates and
      recently-modified dates (new posts are considered as being
      recently modified).

  32.
      Brian Rose <http://www.heimidal.net/> replied on September 20th,
      2004 at 12:33 AM EST <#comment-201>

      Excellent plugin! I hit one little snag while installing that,
      hopefully, will have a quick solution:

      I need to exlcude category nine (as it is my miniblog) from the
      'Recent Entries' section of my new design. I'm using the following
      bit of code:

      |&lt;?php c2c_get_recent_posts(4,
      "&lt;dd&gt;%post_URL%&lt;/dd&gt;\n", '1,3,4,5,6,7,8', 'date',
      'DESC', 1); ?&gt;|

      It seems that, in doing so, the posts no longer sort by date -
      they sort by category, then date. Most of my entries are in
      categories one and eight and those in category eight are not even
      being included in the sort.

      Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

  33.
      Timothy B <http://www.greendigit.com> replied on September 22nd,
      2004 at 12:18 AM EST <#comment-218>

      Thanks for a groovy code!! It took a little fiddling but I was
      able to use it to post the most recent posts in my "Take Action!"
      Category on the site. There was a problem at first when I tried to
      make a post be sticky using another script ( I wasn't able to make
      a post sticky AND show up under the most recently posted in a
      particular category..) but I will take what I can get! Thanks
      again! =)

  34.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on September 27th, 2004
      at 12:28 AM EST <#comment-235>

      *Plugin updated to v1.1*

      This release features these changes:

      * Added the ability to get random posts, and added the convenience
      function |c2c_get_random_posts()| to get them
      * Functions will now consider sticky posts (those in which
      'post_status' gets set to 'sticky') in addition to published posts
      * Changed license from BSD-new to MIT

  35.
      Tyrone <http://www.weddingvendors.com/> replied on September 27th,
      2004 at 6:30 PM EST <#comment-236>

      The plugin appears to fumble with ampersands in the permalink's
      title tag For instance, if the post title is "Jack & Jill" the
      link title will show |Jack &amp;amp; Jill|. This results in
      problems with all html entities, especially the more likely to be
      used single quotes & double quotes.

      I read in the wordpress forums that previous versions of wordpress
      had these problems, while version 1.2 mingus and up do not.

      I edited version 1.1 of your plugin on line 262 changing this:
      |title="View post '.htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($title)).'"|

      to this:
      |title="View post '.$title.'"|

      This appears to have solved the problem. The html character
      entities are now being encoded properly into their hex equivalents
      minus the ampersand problem. I hope the htmlspecialchars section
      didn't have any further particular significance I'm unaware of?

      It's a minor problem solved, which makes this an invaluable
      plugin. I was using a get recent posts "hack" found in the
      wordpress wiki, but it performed a query for each post retrieved,
      so if I wanted to retrieve the last 15 posts (offset by 5) it
      would perform 15 queries. Your version is much faster and only
      executes a single query.

  36.
      Tyrone <http://www.weddingvendors.com/> replied on September 27th,
      2004 at 9:11 PM EST <#comment-237>

      Scott, I have an suggestion for a feature regarding
      *c2c_get_recent_posts*. Let's say I'm viewing the single/permalink
      page of a "recent" entry and I'm showing the last 5 recent entries
      in the sidebar. It would be nice if the recent entries list
      excluded the permalink page I'm currently viewing from the list.
      It's unnecessary to display that particular recent entry link it
      if I'm currently on that page. Just something to think about.

  37.
      Lawrence <http://www.taibros.net> replied on October 8th, 2004 at
      11:40 AM EST <#comment-242>

      Hi, how can I edit this plugin to get a list of most read posts
      (popular posts).

  38.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on October 10th, 2004
      at 9:56 AM EST <#comment-246>

      *Tyrone:* Thanks for pointing out the issue regarding the use of
      |htmlspecialchars()|. I'll go back and review why I put it there
      in the first place and verify that it needs taking out. Also,
      thanks for your other suggestion; I'll give it some consideration.

      *Lawrence:* WordPress doesn't keep track of when/how often posts
      get read, so that information isn't readily available to this
      plugin. There are plugins that allow you to keep track of that
      information. I'm not familiar with how they're designed. Unless
      they are designed in a very specific way (by adding visitor counts
      to a new column in the wp_posts table) it is unlikely you can use
      this plugin without modification to take advantage of that data.
      Otherwise, you'll either have to use another plugin for all your
      "most popular posts" needs, or modify this plugin to take
      advantage of the info the other plugin has recorded.

  39.
      Nikki <http://buttershug.com> replied on October 11th, 2004 at
      9:29 AM EST <#comment-248>

      I'm running a photolog, and wanted the previous 4 entries as
      thumbnails just below. I downloaded your plugin, set the offset to
      1 in the file and then used this:

      |<?php c2c_get_recent_posts(4,'<a href="%post_url%"
      title="%post_title%">%post_excerpt%</a>'); ?>|

      Thank you an incredible amount. This SO rocks.
      Why didn't I find it sooner?!

  40.
      fernando_graphicos <http://fernando.dubtribe.com> replied on
      October 11th, 2004 at 2:54 PM EST <#comment-249>

      wow…

      thank you for this killer update to your already very useful plugins.

      when you said you "might look into it…" i crossed my fingers, but
      i bet nobody expected such a comprehensive, well documented, update.

      awesome.

      thank you.

  41.
      william replied on October 13th, 2004 at 1:15 PM EST <#comment-251>

      Thanks for the great work… it's a rock'n plugin.

  42.
      amory replied on October 17th, 2004 at 12:21 AM EST <#comment-255>

      i'm having trouble displaying the recent posts from a certain
      category. the code i've tried:

      |
      <?php c2c_get_recent_posts(5, "photography"); ?>
      <?php c2c_get_recent_posts(5, 'photography'); ?>
      <?php c2c_get_recent_posts(5, photography); ?>
      |

      photography is a category and there are sufficient posts in it…

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      I have begun to use the coffee2code.com plugin Customizable Post
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      want it to do at this stage and it easy to use.

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  47.
      Paul Hoch <http://www.thehochhouse.com/wp/> replied on October
      23rd, 2004 at 9:21 PM EST <#comment-268>

      It might be interesting to add the ability to get the active
      plugins. I've been messing around a bit and I'm just not good
      enough to make it work. It seems to me that the only table that
      contains that info is wp_options under 'active_plugins' but I
      don't know if it's possible to get more info about the plugin
      itself - url, author, etc from the sqldb. Even so, it would be
      cool to add the ability to show which plugins are active.

      Thanks for the great tool!

  48.
      Stefan Liden <http://www.bluespaceimages.com> replied on October
      26th, 2004 at 7:32 AM EST <#comment-269>

      Wonderful plugin!
      Do you know if there is a way to display thumbnail previews that
      were added through the Exhibit Engine plugin when showing content?

      Thank you for a great plugin.

  49.
      oculos <http://maneblog.mgate.com.br> replied on October 26th,
      2004 at 9:57 AM EST <#comment-270>

      Hello Scott!

      Wow, wonderful plugin! Thanks a lot!

      I wonder if it could be implemented a %comment_excerpt_short% tag!
      It would be nice to display the beggining of the comments on the
      side bar!

      Keep on the great work!!

      Cheers,

      oculos

  50.
      Tin replied on October 27th, 2004 at 3:15 PM EST <#comment-275>

      hi scott!

      a few months ago i asked for something like this. now you've made
      this! it works great! thanks for all your efforts.

      i have one question. it seems that your plugin is the only one i
      know of its kind that can pull up all of the entries by one
      author. do you know how i can embed this into the loop? for
      example, i have a photoblog of multiple authors on my site. the
      photographer (or author) of each post is included at the end of
      each entry (within the loop). is it possible to make it so that if
      i click on the author's name, it brings up all the entries by that
      author and filter out all the other authors? wordpress has a
      author_post_link, but that only brings up the most recent entries.

  51.
      Gede Wijaya <http://jaya.duniasemu.org> replied on November 2nd,
      2004 at 10:41 AM EST <#comment-278>

      Great plugin. Thank you very much!

      But I have some problem. With function:
      |<?php c2c_get_recent_posts(10,"<li><span
      class="recent-post-date">%post_date%</span>: %post_URL%<br />by:
      %post_author_posts%</li>",'','date','DESC','10','d F Y',''); ?>|

      In database table wp_users, the authors that didn't have
      "user_nicename" column, will not show up their URL. Instead, will
      show something like:
      http://some.site.com/berita/arsip/author// for, example, user with
      ID =7

      How do geet I show those author that didn't have nice name? is it
      my blog configuration?

  52.
      Mi <http://blog.hakuro.net> replied on November 5th, 2004 at 1:46
      AM EST <#comment-281>

      I don't know if anyone else have had this problem with the recent
      version, but it screws up the header informations in wp-login.php
      saying that the headers were already sent by the plugin. Any say
      on this?

  53.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on November 5th, 2004
      at 12:12 PM EST <#comment-282>

      Excellent plugin. I had written my own to do similar things, but
      with some added functionality. I've since modified yours to add
      the functionality I desired. You are welcome to roll these mods in
      if you wish.

      * Added support for excluding categories. As in the rest of
      WordPress, simply provide a list of negative categories separated
      by commas (e.g. '-27,-28′) for the $categories parameter.
      * Added support for listing of post categories as well as links to
      category archives (with customizable delimiter).
      * Added support for links to comments section for fancy comments.

      Hopefully someone will find it useful. To see them in action, hit
      the website link above: the sidebar displays the 5 most recent
      entries that aren't in my 'Asides' or 'Currently' categories and
      the bottom of the index uses new category links and fancy comment
      links.

      Here's a link
      <http://www.coldforged.org/cf-customizable-post-listings.zip> to
      the updated code.

      Thanks again for the good code to add on to.

  54.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on November 5th, 2004
      at 12:23 PM EST <#comment-283>

      Of course, error in original code in the titles of the comment
      links. Here's the updated code
      <http://www.coldforged.org/cf-customizable-post-listings-1.zip>.

  55.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on November 5th, 2004
      at 12:34 PM EST <#comment-284>

      First off, thanks everyone for the kind words. Now on to the answers:

      *amory*: There are two things you would need to address in the
      examples you provided. The second argument lets the plugin know
      how to output the text from the posts once it has found them (i.e.
      did you want to show the post's date, content, excerpt, etc). The
      third argument is where you specify the category(ies). But instead
      of using the category name you have to use the category id (you
      can find the category id in the "categories" page of the admin
      section of your blog). Assuming photography had an id of 3, here
      is an example to list the post titles of the 5 most recent posts
      in the photography category:
      |<ul><?php c2c_get_recent_posts(5, "<li>%post_URL%</li>", '5'); ?>|

      *Paul Hoch*: You might want to check out the Plugins Used
      <http://www.andrewsw.com/wiki/moin.cgi/pluginsUsedPlugin> plugin,
      which allows you to display info about the plugins driving your blog.

      *Stefan Liden*: I haven't looked at Exhibit Engine so I can't say
      what is involved in adding thumbnails from it as a percent
      substitution string, but I'll keep it in mind for possible future
      inclusion.

      *oculos*: Great suggestion! I'll see about including it in the
      next version of the plugin.

      *Tin*: I'll have to take a look at the WP code to see if there are
      already provisions to do what you want. My guess is that WP allows
      for what you want.

      *Gede Wijaya*: I'll have to look into your issue farther. As far
      as I know, the user_nicename database field is supposed to be
      auto-generated by WP. If it isn't, I'll have to take it into
      account in a subsequent release of this plugin.

      *Mi*: Getting errors about header information already being sent
      is usually a result of the plugin file having a space or other
      characters before the |<?php| at the start of the file or after
      the |?>| at the end of the file.

  56.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on November 5th, 2004
      at 12:49 PM EST <#comment-285>

      *ColdForged*: Thanks for the code contribution! I haven't had a
      chance to look at the code yet, but it sounds like you've
      addressed some of the areas I've targeted for future releases.
      I'll definitely credit you for whatever code I use.

      I'm curious to see how you did category exclusions; it's been
      awhile, but I recall there seeming to be something tricky about
      it… maybe it was my SQL skillz weren't good enough to construct a
      single query to simultaneously handle category inclusions and
      exclusions.

  57.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on November 5th, 2004
      at 12:54 PM EST <#comment-286>

      You're welcome. Take a gander… I essentially reused the ideas from
      the WordPress exclusion code.

      I'm still working on things… this is a very fresh project (this
      morning) as I add functionality like the Asides to my site. Hence,
      it's sort of a moving target. I've already added another
      replacement (%comment_number_url%) and I'm now returned the actual
      number of posts returned so that people that need to know that can
      get that information easily.

      Again, nice plugin… saved me some work!

  58.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on November 5th, 2004
      at 1:09 PM EST <#comment-287>

      Another thing you may want to think about… the way you're handling
      %post_content% using the "apply_filters" causes the content to
      always be surrounded by paragraph tags. If you instead use:

      |$new = wptexturize($post->post_content);|

      It'll apply the filters but not surround it in paragraph tags. The
      tags are problematic in an "asides" situation where you want the
      content inline. Just a thought.

  59.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on November 5th, 2004
      at 4:54 PM EST <#comment-291>

      Latest additions available here
      <http://www.coldforged.org/cf-customizable-post-listings-2.zip>.

  60.
      paul replied on November 7th, 2004 at 10:47 AM EST <#comment-293>

      Hi, I love your plug in, but am having a slight problem.

      I am trying to display most recent posts (without dates), most
      recent comments & most commented. In your blog these all seem to
      lay out consistently, i.e. there is the same amount of space
      between the title 'most recent posts' and the content below it, as
      there is between 'links' and the stuff below it. On mine this does
      not happen - there is no space beneath 'most recent posts' etc.

      Also, while everything looks consistent in internet explorer, in
      every other browser, the title text i.e. 'most recent posts'
      displays in a different font, at a different size, in a different
      colour and the text below it keeps the style sheet style, but
      displays without the same indent.

      Any suggestions???

  61.
      Mi <http://blog.hakuro.net> replied on November 8th, 2004 at 5:09
      AM EST <#comment-294>

      Thanks, Scott! I didn't realize I had whitespace. It's working
      like a charm now~

  62.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on November 8th, 2004
      at 2:45 PM EST <#comment-295>

          I'm curious to see how you did category exclusions…

      To be honest, I only tested it with a single exclusion. When I
      went to add the second exclusion is when the problems cropped up :) .

      Updated to handled multiple exclusions. Note that to really
      support multiple exclusions at the core "loop" level, the core
      code has to change too. The file "classes.php" has the handling
      for constructing the appropriate select statement, and that has to
      be tweaked a bit.

      I had to do this because — as of today — I have two categories
      that are meant to be "out of the loop": the asides and a
      "currently reading" category. As of now the code handles it fine.
      You can see it in action at my homepage
      <http://www.coldforged.org>: the currently reading section in the
      sidebar, the "Last Five Entries" in the sidebar, the "asides"
      sections between main posts and the "More Recent Entries" at the
      bottom of the main page all use the c2c…() function with
      inclusions and exclusions.

      Latest code with working exclusions is here
      <http://www.coldforged.org/cf-customizable-post-listings-3.zip>.

  63.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on November 8th, 2004
      at 2:48 PM EST <#comment-296>

      Paul,

      Any way you could provide a link?

      This almost certainly sounds like a CSS issue. This plugin merely
      outputs the information extracted from the database in whatever
      format you specify. It's up to your CSS to style it appropriately.

  64.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on November 15th, 2004
      at 6:20 PM EST <#comment-298>

      Well, another day another version :D . This time I've added
      support for keeping track of the number of times a post is viewed,
      sorting by that column (for "Most Popular Posts" kind of lists),
      and displaying the count of pageviews. This one requires a
      modification of the WordPress posts table to add a field to keep
      track of the number of views. Details on installation can be found
      in this post
      <http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2004/11/15/wordpress-asides-coldforged-style/>.


      The current version of the code can be found here
      <http://www.coldforged.org/cf-customizable-post-listings-4.zip>.

  65.
      Oleg Tukh <http://www.tukh.com/blog> replied on December 6th, 2004
      at 1:13 PM EST <#comment-315>

      Thank you Scott!! This is an excellent plugin. I used it to show
      the most recent posts on my website, which is in a different
      directory than my blog. Nicely done!

  66.
      Aunty Spam <http://www.aunty-spam.com> replied on December 14th,
      2004 at 2:55 AM EST <#comment-323>

      Dear Scott,

      Thi sis a *wonderful*, and wonderfully useful, plug-in. And no buts.

      Kissy kissy,

      Aunty

  67.
      Ryan W. replied on December 20th, 2004 at 3:47 PM EST <#comment-330>

      I would like to use c2c_get_recent_posts on two different pages
      for two different sets of categories and two different offset
      values. It seems I'm not able to do this because the config is
      done in the plugin itself, rather than by passing arguments in the
      page. It looks like the only argument you allow for within the
      page itself is the number of entries. Would be great if things
      were handled in an array on the page itself like… |[?php
      c2c_get_recently_modified(num_posts=5&
      categories=21,23,34&offset=2); ?]|

      That way this could be used in a lot of different ways on
      different pages. Or maybe that's already possible and I'm missing
      something? Thank you…

  68.
      Ryan W. replied on December 20th, 2004 at 3:55 PM EST <#comment-331>

      ps - looks like get_posts actually does what I asked for above,
      and is somewhat similar to coffee2code's plug on this page, though
      it's without some of this plugin's features. just fyi…
      http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=get_posts

  69.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on December 20th, 2004
      at 4:28 PM EST <#comment-332>

      *ColdForged*: I /still/ haven't had the time to meaningfully look
      at your contributions, but will do so soon. Thanks again!

      *Ryan*: I think you are overlooking in the instructions the other
      arguments to the various Customizable Post Listings functions.
      What you ask for (listing only posts in certain categories and
      using an offset) are supported, among other things (i.e. only
      gettings posts posted by certain author(s), customizing the output
      string, etc). Note that I define the arguments one to a line in
      the instructions above, like so:

      |function c2c_get_recent_posts ($num_posts = 5,
      $format = "<li>%post_date%: %post_URL%</li>",
      $categories = '',
      $orderby = 'date',
      $order = 'DESC',
      $offset = 0,
      $date_format = 'm/d/Y',
      $authors = '',
      $include_passworded_posts = false)|

  70.
      Ryan W. replied on December 20th, 2004 at 4:30 PM EST <#comment-333>

      pps - Actually, it looks like get_posts won't do what I want,
      because it doesn't provide a way to filter posts by category. I
      hope WP developers will come up with a solution for a future
      release that expands the functionality of get_posts by
      incorporating features of the customizable-post-listings &
      showcategories plugins.

  71.
      Ryan W. replied on December 20th, 2004 at 4:31 PM EST <#comment-334>

      Scott… I think I get it now, re: your comment #69 above. Looks
      like this plugin already does what I want… thanks much!!

  72.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on December 20th, 2004
      at 4:39 PM EST <#comment-335>

      More specifically, here is the call you'd do based on your example:

      |<?php c2c_get_recently_modified(5, "<li>%post_URL%<br />Updated:
      %post_modified%</li>", "21 23 34", "DESC", 2); ?>|

      Hope that helps!

  73.
      snuf.dk » En uge+ med WordPress
      <http://www.snuf.dk/index.php?p=595> replied on December 21st,
      2004 at 8:05 AM EST <#comment-338>

      […] ødvendigt. Pågældende plug-in m.fl. kan findes her. Jeg har
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      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/>,
      nemlig det […]

  74.
      Ryan W. replied on December 21st, 2004 at 4:05 PM EST <#comment-340>

      Is this plugin compatible with the use of [!–more–] to divide
      teaser text, as discussed at
      http://wordpress.org/docs/reference/post/

  75.
      Ryan W. replied on December 21st, 2004 at 5:15 PM EST <#comment-341>

      ps - Upon further review I don't think I like the whole idea
      behind [!–more–] because it's too jarring to the user to land on
      another page halfway down the page. So I don't think I'll use
      [!–more–]

      What I really want to do is display %post_content% if no excerpt
      is present in the db. But if an excerpt is present in the db —
      because an author filled out that part of the post form — then I
      want to display %post_excerpt% and %post_url%

      That's asking a lot. I'm guessing I won't be able to run PHP
      within $format to check if a db field is empty.

      Actually, though, [!–more–] would be a good solution if it just
      landed the user on the permalink, at the top of the page, and I'm
      guessing that's something I could do with a hack… or maybe within
      the parameters for the_content()

      Hmm… I guess my question about compatiblity with [!–more–] remains
      an issue… I can't get [!–more–] to work with this plugin.

  76.
      Ryan W. replied on December 21st, 2004 at 5:44 PM EST <#comment-342>

      pps - Now I see how I can run some PHP to display excerpt or
      content based on conditions… I just have to do something like:

      $string = [ ...sundry formatting and code... ];
      c2c_get_recent_posts (9999, "$string", '10', 'date', 'DESC', 2, 'F
      Y', '', false); ?>

      all is well!

  77.
      Ryan W. replied on December 21st, 2004 at 7:37 PM EST <#comment-343>

      Here's the code I omitted from the comment above:

      [?php
      if [ some conditional thingy here ] {
      $formatting = [ sundry code and formatting right here ];
      } else {
      $formatting = [ sundry code and formatting right here ];
      }
      c2c_get_recent_posts (9999, "$formatting", '10′, 'date', 'DESC',
      2, 'F Y', '', false); ?]

      So you can see there's an effort there to perform some tests and
      provide something different for the second parameter in
      c2c_get_recent_posts depending on conditions. But I'm not having
      success because the code above is executed outside the context of
      c2c_get_recent_posts(), so if I want to test whether there's an
      excerpt for a particular post, that doesn't really work.

      So I'm kind of back to square one, wondering if [!–more–] is the
      answer, and, if so, whether there's any way to use it with this
      plugin. Another possible solution would be if
      customizable-post-listings performed a test for the excerpt and
      then passed some value to my PHP page that I can use to toggle
      things in the format parameter.

      Or, if there was an additional percent tag like
      %post_excerpt_or_content% that would display excerpt if one is
      present in the db or content if no excerpt is present. Even if
      that kind of percent tag were available there 's still a need for
      other contingencies such as: What if I want to do [a
      href="%post_url"]%post_excerpt_or_content%[/a]
      if there's an excerpt but omit the link anchor if there's no
      excerpt (because then I wouldn't be linking to another page for
      the rest of the post.)

      My problem, just to clarify, is that I want to display excerpt +
      permalink for longer posts, and the entire content (and no
      permalink) for shorter posts. In other words, if my post is three
      sentences long, it doesn't make sense to provide a one sentence
      excerpt and a link to my three-sentence post. But for longer
      posts, I want to use the excerpt/link approach. From the
      content-author perspective, it would be nice to leave the excerpt
      field blank as my way of indicating that the entire post body
      should be displayed on the index — hence my desire to test for the
      presence of an excerpt in the db. But the next best thing would be
      to use something like [!–more–] when I want excerpt + link… if no
      [!–more–] is found in the post, then full content should be
      displayed and no link or link text.

  78.
      Ryan W. replied on December 25th, 2004 at 4:38 PM EST <#comment-347>

      OK, I don't mean to turn this page into my personal journal, but
      here's how to test for an excerpt, for what it's worth… put this
      function in template-functions-post.php:

      function get_excerpt_status() { // don't forget to mark your hack
      global $id, $post;
      global $test_for_excerpt;
      $output = '';
      $output = trim(stripslashes($post->post_excerpt));
      if ($output != '') {
      $test_for_excerpt = 'pos'; // no excerpt
      } else {
      $test_for_excerpt = 'neg'; // there's an excerpt
      }
      }

      …then on your web page you can do something like this…

      [?php
      get_excerpt_status();
      if ($test_for_excerpt == 'pos') {
      $formatting = blahblahblah;
      } else {
      $formatting = blahblahblah;
      }
      c2c_get_recent_posts (9999, "$formatting", '10′, 'date', 'DESC',
      2, 'F Y', '', false);
      ?]

  79.
      Ryan W. replied on December 25th, 2004 at 6:51 PM EST <#comment-348>

      ugghh. nevermind the above post!! that code doesn't work because
      get_excerpt_status() doesn't work outside the loop.

  80.
      dozer <http://www.coolthaihouse.com> replied on December 26th,
      2004 at 8:34 AM EST <#comment-350>

      This is a great plug in which I've been using for a while for my
      'most recent comments' sidebar section. Everything works as
      advertised, but I'm having a problem which by reading comments of
      others I think may not have come up yet, but I can't image why —
      or maybe I just missed it.

      On my site I restrict comments to registered users and have a few
      regular readers give me insightful comments once in a while. Every
      time I post however I normally will link back to previous articles
      — creating a pickback comment. eg. […] re going for the sealed
      temperature controlled house you might opt for something like this
      energy efficient sealed house The basement with glass to th […]

      What I want to do is to omit these pingbacks from the most
      recently commented list — since now someone who really wanted to
      see what is drawing comments will pull up a lot of posts which
      just have my own ping backs.

      Can you advise the best way to accomplish this (eliminate the
      pingbacks from the most recent comments)?

      Thanks for a great job and great hack!

  81.
      Alan Farahani replied on December 29th, 2004 at 1:29 PM EST
      <#comment-353>

      Hello Scott, I want to thank you for an incredible plugin that
      makes so many things so much simpler!

      I actually have a question (to actually anyone who knows), is
      there a way that I can display all the posts only within one given
      month? It doesn't matter whether or not it outputs code with a
      sequential ordering of months rather than just outputting one
      month per "get_recent_post".

      IE

      March 2001
      date/post
      date/post

      vs

      April 2001
      date/post
      date/post
      |<br/>|
      March 2001
      date/post
      date/post

      and so on and so forth

      Also, has anyone attempted the "%comment_excerpt_short%" tag yet?
      I would be very interested to hear of any developments!

      Sorry for the inane questions, php is most definately not a strong
      point!

      Thanks.

  82.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on December 29th, 2004
      at 7:32 PM EST <#comment-354>

      *Ryan*: I'll add a tag to the next version that indicates the
      excerpt, if present, should be shown, otherwise the post content
      will be shown. No worries about posting
      ideas/suggestions/solutions here, I appreciate the input. Hope you
      can hold out to the next release.

      *dozer*: Nice suggestion. I'll include more pingback and trackback
      stuff in the next release. In the meantime, if you wanted to try a
      hack to keep pingbacks from being seen as comments by this plugin,
      do the following in the plugin file:

      In the function c2c_get_recent_posts, at line 65 you should see this:

      |if ($add_recent_comment_to_sql) $sql .= "AND $tableposts.ID =
      $tablecomments.comment_post_ID AND $tablecomments.comment_approved
      = '1' ";|

      Change it to this:

      |if ($add_recent_comment_to_sql) $sql .= "AND $tableposts.ID =
      $tablecomments.comment_post_ID AND $tablecomments.comment_approved
      = '1' AND $tablecomments.comment_content NOT LIKE '%&lt&;pingback
      />%'";|

      Line 139 was this:

      |return $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $tablecomments WHERE
      comment_post_ID = '$post_id'");|

      Change it to this:

      |return $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $tablecomments WHERE
      comment_post_ID = '$post_id' AND comment_content NOT LIKE
      '%&lt&;pingback />%'");|

      Line 171 was this:

      |$comment = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE
      comment_post_ID = '$post->ID' AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY
      comment_date DESC LIMIT 1");|

      Change it to this:

      |$comment = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE
      comment_post_ID = '$post->ID' AND comment_approved = '1' AND
      comment_content NOT LIKE '%&lt&;pingback />%' ORDER BY
      comment_date DESC LIMIT 1");|

      So 3 lines that need changing. If that looks daunting, you can
      wait until the next release, but it really isn't that much for you
      to change if you were so inclined. The official version will have
      easy options to control whether pingbacks and trackbacks should be
      considered or not.

      *Alan*: For listing the posts by month, what you probably want is
      the Sortable Nicer Archives plugin
      <http://wordpress.org/support/10/6041>.

      As for the %comment_excerpt_short% tag, in the next release of the
      plugin I'll include a tag that does just that (though likely named
      different).

  83.
      Ryan W. <http://www.webcommunicate.net> replied on December 30th,
      2004 at 9:44 AM EST <#comment-356>

      Scott,
      I went ahead and took a stab at writing a plugin that conditions
      formatting based on whether an excerpt is present in the database.
      It also does enough of what your plugin does to solve my current
      problem, though overall it's a more limited plugin and lacks a
      system of percent tags for now, so formatting must be done in the
      plugin itself.
      If interested see here <http://www.webcommunicate.net/index.php?p=9>.
      Gracias,
      Ryan

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      <http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/08/27/plugin-customizable-post-listings/>
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      <http://www.coolthaihouse.com> replied on January 10th, 2005 at
      6:10 AM EST <#comment-379>

      Scott, thanks for the hack. I had already done something similar,
      but didn't catch all the changes, so the comment counter wasn't
      consistant. Anyway, reistalled it per your instructions and it
      works great. Now pingbacks are excluded……

  86.
      Jascha replied on January 12th, 2005 at 4:33 AM EST <#comment-381>

      I was using this plugin withd 1.5 and nightly from 2005-01-12 and
      it works great! I had used it wih 1.2 and wanted to make sure it
      worked with 1.5 before I switched. Two quick questions:

      Is there a way to have most recent static pages (as there are in 1.5)?

      I was playing with the Way Too Clean <http://ibebloggin.com/>
      template which has the 'Featured Story' block. Is there a way to
      have 'Recent Posts' exclude the last post from the list?

      Thanks!

  87.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on January 12th, 2005
      at 12:41 PM EST <#comment-388>

      *Jascha*: I'll include the ability to include static pages in the
      plugin's various functions in the next release. If you want to be
      able to do this in the meantime, you'll have to change a few lines
      in the plugin file. To minimize the number of code changes I tell
      you (if you want to pursue it), what exactly did you want to be
      able to do (just a "most recent static pages" listing)?

      As for excluding the most recent post from the list, that is
      achieved by setting the |$offset| argument to any of the plugin's
      functions. The value for offset indicates how many posts to skip.
      Set it to 1 and it'll skip the most recent post.

  88.
      Jascha replied on January 12th, 2005 at 2:47 PM EST <#comment-390>

      Yes, I was wanting to have a listing of the most recent static
      sub-pages. So for example if you had a main page called
      'Editorials' with all the actual editorials as sub-pages you could
      list them. Or just list the main pages. It was more a feature
      enhancement idea. I can wait for the next release to try it out. ;)

      I will give the |$offset| a try. Thanks for the help and plugin.

  89.
      Thomas replied on January 13th, 2005 at 2:19 PM EST <#comment-393>

      I'm having issues using the $categories tag with the $offset tag.

      Code looks a-like this:
      $format = "%post_excerpt%",
      $offset = 1,
      $categories = 2); ?>

      Error is:

      Database error: [Unknown column 'wp_testposts.post_2′ in 'order
      clause']
      SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_testposts LEFT JOIN wp_testpost2cat ON
      (wp_testposts.ID = wp_testpost2cat.post_id) WHERE
      wp_testposts.post_date <= '2005-01-13 12:59:35′ AND (
      wp_testposts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_testposts.post_status =
      'sticky' ) AND wp_testposts.post_password = '' AND (
      wp_testpost2cat.category_id = '1′ ) GROUP BY wp_testposts.ID ORDER
      BY wp_testposts.post_2 DESC LIMIT 0, 1

      My intention is to use your plugin function in a loop, so I can do
      some more specific formatting (within table cells, etc.). To do
      this, I intend on setting $num_posts to one, $categories to
      whichever category the "index" is for, and $offset to an
      incremented variable within the loop.

      Of course, I can't get this to work from the singular instance I
      have at the top.

  90.
      Thomas replied on January 13th, 2005 at 2:22 PM EST <#comment-394>

      Huh. My first post got cut off.

      I'm having issues using the $categories tag with the $offset tag.

      Code looks a-like this:|
      <?php c2c_get_recent_posts($num_posts=1,
      $format = "%post_excerpt%",
      $offset = 1,
      $categories = 2); ?>|

      Error is:
      |
      Database error: [Unknown column 'wp_testposts.post_2' in 'order
      clause']
      SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_testposts LEFT JOIN wp_testpost2cat ON
      (wp_testposts.ID = wp_testpost2cat.post_id) WHERE
      wp_testposts.post_date <= '2005-01-13 12:59:35' AND (
      wp_testposts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_testposts.post_status =
      'sticky' ) AND wp_testposts.post_password = '' AND (
      wp_testpost2cat.category_id = '1' ) GROUP BY wp_testposts.ID ORDER
      BY wp_testposts.post_2 DESC LIMIT 0, 1
      |

      My intention is to use your plugin function in a loop, so I can do
      some more specific formatting (within table cells, etc.). To do
      this, I intend on setting $num_posts to one, $categories to
      whichever category the "index" is for, and $offset to an
      incremented variable within the loop.

      Of course, I can't get this to work from the singular instance I
      have at the top.

  91.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on January 13th, 2005
      at 2:39 PM EST <#comment-395>

      *Thomas*: In order to specify the value for a function's argument,
      you must also specify the values for arguments that appear before
      that argument. You must also specify the arguments in the order
      they were defined by function.

      Here is probably what you wanted to use:

      |<?php c2c_get_recent_posts(1, "%post_excerpt%", "2", "date",
      "DESC", 1); ?>|

  92.
      Thomas replied on January 13th, 2005 at 2:52 PM EST <#comment-396>

      That did the trick. I'm gonna be whipping this internet in no time
      at all, thanks to you.

  93.
      Ryan W. <http://www.webcommunicate.net> replied on January 14th,
      2005 at 3:01 PM EST <#comment-402>

      I'm getting an error when I save posts:

      Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent
      by (output started at
      /usr/home/spitf10/www/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/customizable-post-listings.php:306)
      in /usr/home/spitf10/www/htdocs/wp-admin/post.php on line 340

      I checked to make sure there's no leading or trailing white space
      in the plugin file. I also re-copied your source from this page (v
      1.1) into the file and uploaded. When I deactive the plugin,
      problem disappears. Reactivate, it's back.

  94.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on January 15th, 2005
      at 7:11 PM EST <#comment-408>

      *Ryan*: Try downloading the zip for the plugin, unzipping that,
      and uploading the file you extracted. As far as I know, 99.9% of
      the "Cannot modify header information…" errors are a result of
      leading and/or trailing white space (or other characters).

  95.
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  96.
      Anton <http://www.lazerhappy.com> replied on January 19th, 2005 at
      12:33 PM EST <#comment-422>

      Scott, I'm using your plugin to pull up dinamic content for my
      site, but its not a blog, so I had no need for "the loop" showing
      the rest of the posts. But by removing "the loop" from index.php
      and using your functions exclusively, disables alot of functions
      such as search, post popups, and coments. Any sugestions on how to
      retain all the functionality of "the loop" without showing all the
      posts?

  97.
      Pierre Igot <http://www.cprp.ca> replied on January 21st, 2005 at
      3:38 PM EST <#comment-425>

      Great plug-in. One question, though: Is there an easy way to
      request recent posts that are in BOTH category A and category B?
      Right now, if I put two category IDs separated by a space, your
      recent_posts function returns posts that are in EITHER category A
      OR category B.

      I'd like to return only posts that are in both. Is this possible?

  98.
      Nathan <http://www.muirheadkingdom.com/blogs/nathan> replied on
      January 24th, 2005 at 11:37 PM EST <#comment-432>

      Just another request for a %comment_excerpt_short% function.
      This would be particularly useful for the author and I think
      enticing to those reading and already aware of recent post titles
      which often are present already on the page.

      Great plug in thank you!

  99.
      Mark <http://www.adventisthelp.com/blogs> replied on January 25th,
      2005 at 8:09 PM EST <#comment-433>

      I successfully installed your cool spellchecker program, and it
      kicks in, but then I get this crazy error:

      "/usr/local/share/aspell/en_US.dat can not be opened to read"

      My webhost is Pair.com, and they suggested to try 'en_US.multi'
      which I did, and got the same error.

      Any suggestions?

      Thank you very much.

      Mark Bishop

 100.
      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on January 26th, 2005
      at 7:47 PM EST <#comment-436>

      *Anton*: Your question is probably a multi-part question, with
      different answers for different parts. So it really depends on
      what exactly you are asking for. The "loop" does set global
      variables that other functions rely upon for typical "in the loop"
      sorts of activities, in which case many of those functions
      wouldn't work properly. I'm sure there are certain sorts of things
      that could be added to this plugin, or could be hacked in some
      way. Point out specific things you are looking to do and I can
      tell you how necessary the loop is for them.

      *Pierre*: I anticipate improved category support, including the
      case which you brought up, in a future version. Complex category
      handling can be tricky, so how much I implement and when is still
      up in the air.

      *Nathan*: Rest assured a comment_excerpt substitution tag will be
      included in the next release.

      *Mark*: You have the wrong plugin developer. You probably want
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org>.

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 103.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on January 31st, 2005
      at 10:50 AM EST <#comment-459>

      /
      /

          /Mark: You have the wrong plugin developer. You probably want
          ColdForged./


      Scott, you sure you don't want to provide support for my plugins
      as well? :D

 104.
      Heather <http://www.bomberella.com> replied on January 31st, 2005
      at 6:49 PM EST <#comment-462>

      Thank you so much! This is just what I wanted for my small piece
      of the Internet. Works like a charm.

 105.
      Valerie replied on February 1st, 2005 at 6:48 PM EST <#comment-464>

      I just downloaded this plugin yesterday.

      I was trying to get recently_commented to output the date of the
      last comment, the name of the commenter link to the actual
      comment, and the title of post comment is in which is permalinked.

      I don't know much php, I can kinda read it, but not enough to code
      myself. Anyway, I played and played with the configurations to get
      it to do what I wanted, but it just wouldn't do it.

      You have |%last_comment_url%| defined in your code, so I had tried
      using that, but it just spit out |%last_comment_url%| on the page.
      It turns out that in the array at the bottom of your code, you
      have |%last_comment_URL%|, instead of |%last_comment_url%|. I made
      the slight adjustment in the array list and then wrapped
      |%last_comment_url%| in link html, and put that around
      |%last_commenter%| and now it does what I want. :) Yeah.

      Oh, I also thought I'd mention that for |%last_commenter_URL%|, if
      a URL is not provided for the comment author, the author's name is
      still clickable, but is directed to the current page.

      Thanks for another awesome plugin! :)

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 107.
      Dan replied on February 10th, 2005 at 8:20 AM EST <#comment-598>

      I'm very new to this system, and this is the first plugin im
      attempting to use.

      I have problems installing it though:

      I followed the installation instructions but it does not work. I
      simply placed the function:

      |function c2c_get_recent_posts ($num_posts = 5,
      $format = "<li>%post_date%: %post_URL%</li>",
      $categories = '',
      $orderby = 'date',
      $order = 'DESC',
      $offset = 0,
      $date_format = 'm/d/Y',
      $authors = '',
      $include_passworded_posts = false)
      |

      in the index.php as it said, between

      Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';', expecting '{' in
      /home/fhlinux198/i/ifmicecouldmovemountains.com/user/htdocs/news/index.php
      on line 64. Line 64 is the: | line. If I add a '{' it bring up yet
      another error.|

      Can anyone explain what I am doing wrong?

 108.
      Dan replied on February 10th, 2005 at 8:21 AM EST <#comment-599>

      oops sorry. For some reason it didn't post this part of the message:

      Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';', expecting '{' in
      /home/fhlinux198/i/ifmicecouldmovemountains.com/user/htdocs/news/index.php
      on line 64

      That is the error i get in my index.php

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      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on February 10th, 2005
      at 10:33 AM EST <#comment-600>

      *ColdForged*: Heh; I've got my holds full with what I've got going
      here :) Incidentally, I've finally begun updating the plugin. I'm
      doing it in various stages; the interim steps are visible at
      dev.wp-plugins.org. I'll probably be able to roll in most of your
      customizations, except for the post_view_count stuff, which
      probably goes beyond the scope of this plugin. Thanks for
      contributing!

      *Valerie*: Thanks for pointing out those bugs. Their fixes will be
      in the next release.

      *Dan*: What you pasted into index.php was the code defining the
      function and not the code that calls the function. Look under the
      Tips & Examples <#examples> section for what you want to put into
      index.php. Namely, you'd want something like:

      |<?php c2c_get_recent_posts(); ?>|

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      Dan replied on February 10th, 2005 at 2:52 PM EST <#comment-601>

      I tried that, but then it says "atal error: Call to undefined
      function: c2c_get_recent_posts()"

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      Scott <http://www.coffee2code.com> replied on February 10th, 2005
      at 4:14 PM EST <#comment-602>

      *Dan*: Did you activate the plugin via the Admin's Plugins page?
      If so, where in index.php did you put this function? For that
      matter, are you using WordPress 1.2+ or 1.5?

 112.
      Dan replied on February 10th, 2005 at 4:21 PM EST <#comment-603>

      Yeah I did activate it. I am using 1.2.1…

      Should I change the version I am using?

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      Dan replied on February 11th, 2005 at 8:59 AM EST <#comment-605>

      I got it working, it was my stupidity.

      One more question: is it possible to have more than one class
      streamreader in a page? I wanted to draw the "get recent posts"
      from a different database to that of another on the page. Instead
      an error of: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class streamreader in
      /home/fhlinux198/i/ifmicecouldmovemountains.com/user/htdocs/live/wp-includes/streams.php
      on line 26

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      Streak Running Weblog » Blog Übersicht
      <http://streakrunning.de/?p=18> replied on February 17th, 2005 at
      9:03 AM EST <#comment-698>

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      coldforged.org » Blog Archive » WordPress Asides, ColdForged-style
      <http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2004/11/15/wordpress-asides-coldforged-style/>
      replied on February 18th, 2005 at 10:07 AM EST <#comment-700>

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      Ruby <http://lotusmedia.org> replied on February 21st, 2005 at
      9:53 AM EST <#comment-778>

      Thanks for another great plug-in, Scott!

      I've got this up and running at http://lotusmedia.org/ om WP 1.5
      but there's one problem.

      Where I'm using %last_comment_URL% it's displaying
      |http://lotusmedia.org/1053/02/20/2005%2008:05%20pm| but the
      permalink to the comment is actually
      |http://lotusmedia.org/1053/#comment-227|.

      Should I just manually make the link like:
      |%post_url%/#comment-%last_comment_id%| ?

 117.
      Scott replied on February 21st, 2005 at 7:31 PM EST <#comment-780>

      *Ruby*: a couple questions — there is a typo in the code… search
      for "%last_comment_URL%" (with the quotes) and replace it with
      "%last_comment_url%" (again, with the quotes). Then use the all
      lowercase version when you define your format string. Does that
      fix your problem? If not, did the scenario you mentioned work in
      1.2 but not in 1.5?

      Depending on what you're looking to do, it may already be done in
      the latest version of the plugin, which I'm hoping to finish up
      and release within the next week.

 118.
      Ian <http://the-way-to-the-centre.org.uk> replied on February
      22nd, 2005 at 8:34 AM EST <#comment-783>

      I'm trying the same thing as Nikki [comment 39]. When it is taking
      the post-excerpt, it is taking/adding paragraph tags so that they
      end up in within the link and break my vailidation. Is there
      something in WP (1.5) I can disable or maybe a workaround?

      I'm currently using |(1,'&lt;a href="%post_url%"
      title="%post_title%"&gt;%post_excerpt%&lt;/a&gt;','14','date','DESC','0','d
      F Y','');|

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      Space Ninja Blog » Blog Archive » One Down
      <http://www.spaceninja.com/blog/archives/2005/02/24/one-down/>
      replied on February 24th, 2005 at 4:03 AM EST <#comment-790>

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      can see in the sidebar), with Coffee2Code.com's Customizable Post
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      Beetle Blog » Reading List Implementation
      <http://beetle.cbtlsl.com/archives/2005/02/24/275/> replied on
      February 25th, 2005 at 1:15 AM EST <#comment-891>

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      John W replied on March 1st, 2005 at 11:17 AM EST <#comment-924>

      The docs state for $format : /"A string that uses percent
      substitution tags to define the data you want displayed for each
      listing and how you want it displayed;set it to '' (two
      single-quotes) to return an array of the requested post objects
      without outputting anything./"

      I'm using:
      $foo=c2c_get_recent_posts(1, $format='%post_content%');

      but the post_content is still being displayed. I just want it
      stored in $foo for manipulation. How can I do this?

 122.
      ColdForged <http://coldforged.org> replied on March 1st, 2005 at
      2:29 PM EST <#comment-925>

      John, you'd have to modify the plugin to return the text instead
      of echo it.

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      matopc replied on March 1st, 2005 at 5:06 PM EST <#comment-926>

      Thanks for this great plugin, Scott.
      I've installed this plugin recently and noticed that
      |%comments_count%| actually counts all comments including ones
      marked as 'spam' and stored in the database.

      So the function |c2c_comment_count| may be better if reads:
      |function c2c_comment_count ($post_id) {
        global $wpdb, $tablecomments;
        if (!isset($tablecomments)) $tablecomments = $wpdb-&gt;comments;
        return $wpdb-&gt;get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $tablecomments
      WHERE comment_post_ID = '$post_id' <strong>AND comment_approved =
      '1'</strong>");
      } //end function c2c_comment_count()|

      Thanks.

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      __Sakurazuka No Maboroshi__
      <http://www.digitalyn.net/blog/?p=1011> replied on March 3rd, 2005
      at 6:49 PM EST <#comment-1038>

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      Sean Langlands <http://www.pixelinsanity.com> replied on March
      7th, 2005 at 12:55 AM EST <#comment-1082>

      Great Plugin. Will be using this for my Sites new version. :)

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      Timo <http://www.elasticspace.com> replied on March 7th, 2005 at
      9:48 AM EST <#comment-1138>

      Any news of the updated version Scott? I'm waiting to install it
      on my site, but wondering if a new version would solve some of
      these queries…

 127.
      gleem <http://www.ebaked.com> replied on March 9th, 2005 at 8:29
      PM EST <#comment-1151>

      hey, I tried installing this and I get:

      "Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '&' or
      T_VARIABLE or T_CONST in line 33″ which is:

        $format = "%post_date%: %post_URL%",

      no matter what type of plugin I try to get a "recent post" list
      going in my side bar, I get parse errors, was hoping you can help!

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      Standing Tall » Blog Archive » WordPress プラグイン一覧追加情報
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      replied on March 10th, 2005 at 2:58 AM EST <#comment-1152>

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      Beetle Blog » Reading List Implementation
      <http://beetle.cbtlsl.com/archives/2005/02/24/reading-list-implementation/>
      replied on March 15th, 2005 at 3:18 PM EST <#comment-1298>

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 130.
      Liz replied on March 16th, 2005 at 5:56 PM EST <#comment-1351>

      Hey, you make amazing plugins! I was just wondering, is it
      possible to combine this plugin and the custom field plugin? As
      in, in the format variable of the recent posts function, can I put
      the to get the input for that recent entry's custom field into the
      recent post listing? I figure this is too good to be true and
      impossible, but I figured I'd check! If not, is there anyway to
      include an entry's custom field into the recent listing? Thanks :)

 131.
      Ash Haque <http://basketball2k.com> replied on March 17th, 2005 at
      4:03 AM EST <#comment-1365>

      Amazing job with this plugin, using it on my site right now!

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