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timethief on "Seeking widget to display recent and/or favorite posts"

timethief — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:58:25 +0000

You're welcome and best wishes.

keithompson on "Seeking widget to display recent and/or favorite posts"

keithompson — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:56:46 +0000

Thanks for the info. I'll follow your suggestion.

timethief on "Seeking widget to display recent and/or favorite posts"

timethief — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:50:51 +0000

Thank you. That's what I thought. firsthundredyears.com Is hosted by HostGator ie. it's WordPress.ORG install and you are posting to the wrong support forum. Wee cannot help you here with any site not being free hosted by WordPress.COM. If you don't have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

keithompson on "Seeking widget to display recent and/or favorite posts"

keithompson — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:47:31 +0000

http://www.firsthundredyears.com/

timethief on "Seeking widget to display recent and/or favorite posts"

timethief — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:33:34 +0000

Please provide the URL anyway as if it's private we Volunteers cannot see the content but we can see whether or not it is a free hosted WordPress.com blog as opposed to a WordPress.ORG install.

Comparison here > WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

keithompson on "Seeking widget to display recent and/or favorite posts"

keithompson — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:22:45 +0000

Well, the thing is, my WP blog is not yet live, because I'm still creating content, and also because the aforementioned feature (Recent Popular Posts) isn't yet functional.

timethief on "Seeking widget to display recent and/or favorite posts"

timethief — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:12:14 +0000

We cannot even begin to help until you post an active link starting with http:// to the exact blog you refer to.

keithompson on "Seeking widget to display recent and/or favorite posts"

keithompson — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:09:26 +0000

I have created a 2-column WP blog; not yet live. My posts will appear in the left-side column. The right side column is called Recent Popular Posts. There are many WP widgets available for this feature. Most of them, however, seem configured t display (automatically) a given number (x) of the most recent posts. That's not what I want, because it would simply duplicate the x-number of posts my left column. No, what I want is a widget that will allow me to select which of all my posts will appear in my Recent Popular Posts column. For instance, say I create 5 posts, with these titles: One, Two, Three, Four, Five. Say I want Three and Five to appear as the newest posts in my Recent Popular Posts column. OK, so, I need a widget (or plug-in, etc.) that will enable me, say, to check a box on posts Three and Five that causes those posts to appear in Recent Popular Posts. (Note: the widget needs to be customizable so I can choose, say, the title + first line or two of post + thumbnail — rather than having the entire texts of Three and Five appear in Recent Popular Posts.) Later, if I want to remove those posts from Recent Popular Posts, I would be able to simply unselect them, and also able to select other of my posts to go into Recent Popular Posts. Any ideas?

nicepaul on "How do I get an archive page, similar to my 404 page"

nicepaul — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:43:02 +0000

Thank you.

I had an archive page before switching themes but it was empty in my new theme, so I didn't think it would be as simple as this. (and didn't think to look for a shortcode myself because I must have done it a different way before).

1tess on "How do I get an archive page, similar to my 404 page"

1tess — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:47:40 +0000

You can use the archives shortcode on a page for an index of your posts:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/

nicepaul on "How do I get an archive page, similar to my 404 page"

nicepaul — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:40:52 +0000

Nobody?

Is it not possible?

nicepaul on "How do I get an archive page, similar to my 404 page"

nicepaul — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:05:37 +0000

I've just switched to the "Publish" WP.com theme, and I can't find where to switch on an archive page listing the titles of all posts.

When I went looking for it at /archive, or /blog etc, I find that the 404 page has almost exactly what I'm looking for on it! (although it only shows the most recent posts)

How can I create an archive page? I'm sure the previous theme I used ("Crisp") had a page template type called archive. "Publish" doesn't have this as far as I can see, but it would be incredibly frustrating if what I need is only available on the 404 error page!

Any ideas?

thanks,
Paul

http://nicepaul.com/

akisaokay on "Visibility feature in Recent Posts widget not working"

akisaokay — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:24:35 +0000

Sounds like too much trouble, though I'm happy to have the information. Thanks for your help!

justpi on "Visibility feature in Recent Posts widget not working"

justpi — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:23:01 +0000

Right: no automated way to do this.
The only way would be to remove the Recent posts widget, create a custom menu in Appearance > Menus, add the posts you want, add a Custom Menu widget to your sidebar, make it display the custom menu you created, and update the menu manually each time you publish a regular post.

akisaokay on "Visibility feature in Recent Posts widget not working"

akisaokay — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:18:40 +0000

That makes sense.

So back to the original objective, there's no way to screen posts out of the list in any kind of automated way then, right?

justpi on "Visibility feature in Recent Posts widget not working"

justpi — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:16:18 +0000

What you're missing is that the visibility settings don't determine what will show in the widget, they determine whether the widget will show on a certain page: when you select Hide/Brief, you say that the widget won't show when you view that category page. Check for yourself:
http://akisaokay.wordpress.com/category/brief/

akisaokay on "Visibility feature in Recent Posts widget not working"

akisaokay — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:56:40 +0000

I recently adopted a new theme on my wordpress.com blog (http://akisaokay.wordpress.com) to allow for multiple post formats, and now would like only for Standard format posts to be included in my Recent Posts sidebar widget. While there's no format selection option, It looks like the widget allows for exclusion based on category, so I created a category for non-Standard posts ("Brief") and set the widget to hide posts in that category. And yet, they persist in showing up. When I tried the opposite approach and set it to show posts in every other category, the widget disappeared from the sidebar altogether.

What am I missing here? Any other suggestions?

feastingintheknow on "Able theme - how to insert bullet points for Recent Posts"

feastingintheknow — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 05:35:45 +0000

Hello,
Could you please teach me how to insert bullet points in my Recent Posts widget? Hopefully without relying on the premium customised function. At the moment, my blog post titles all seem continuous and hard to distinguish from each other in the list. You could say I am computer-illiterate and I know zilch about coding, so thank you in advance for your patience.
Kind regards,
Feasting in the Know

supportbot on "Adding posts to a static page"

supportbot — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:47:00 +0000

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v8photo on "Adding posts to a static page"

v8photo — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:46:59 +0000

I have looked all over this site for an answer I can use. That being said there seems to be a lot of solutions, but I am such a novice at this that most of it goes over my head......

I want to add recent posts to my static home page. under the section that says "Upcoming Events" Website in question
Someone on one of the forums suggested using the following code information.:
"The easiest way to do this is adding to your static page a get_posts call.
Here's one example of a minimal Loop of that kind :
<?php
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&category=1');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>"

[Please use the code buttons when posting code here]

The problem is I dont know where to put this code to show up on my page where I want it.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Thank you.

Richard

knixieblack on "changeing date format in recent posts widget"

knixieblack — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:16:23 +0000

Bummer!! Thanks for the reply. I have another issue posted here, if you have any help :)
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/sidebar-in-inove-theme?replies=3

timethief on "changeing date format in recent posts widget"

timethief — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:15:20 +0000

No you cannot.

knixieblack on "changeing date format in recent posts widget"

knixieblack — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:11:11 +0000

In my sidebar I have a 'Recent Posts' widget. There is an option to show the date or not. If I have it showing how can I change the date format?

justpi on "Links in sidebar - problems"

justpi — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:39:48 +0000

Appearance > Theme Options > Link Color.

kristieopgraafhuyn on "Links in sidebar - problems"

kristieopgraafhuyn — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:23:47 +0000

Hi there,

for my wordpress I'm using the Twenty Eleven theme, and in my sidebar only two widgets; 'recent posts' & 'archives'. These two titles are both visible in gray and so are the summarize - dots. But the links to my posts or month I posted in are not visible. When you highlight the page you see them, but that's not how it should be. This also counts for the 'posted on' and 'posted in' by... links at the top and end of ech post. Tried to change font in HTML; didn't work. I don't know how to fix it or where.

Please help! Thanks,
Kristie

designsimply on "How to put the recent posts widget at the bottom of my home page"

designsimply — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:49:44 +0000

The Twenty Twelve demo at http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/ uses a static front page, a page template, and widgets. Here's how to set it up on your own blog:

1. Setup a static front page:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

2. Go to Pages, open the page you set as the front page for editing, and set it to use the "Front Page Template":
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/

3. Go to Appearance → Widgets, and add widgets to the "First Front Page Widget Area" and "Second Front Page Widget Area" areas on the right.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/

alyssarleneevents on "How to put the recent posts widget at the bottom of my home page"

alyssarleneevents — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:40:40 +0000

I downloaded the twenty twelve theme and I want to put the recent posts widget at the bottom of the home page (like it is set up in the demo). How do I do this?

supportbot on "Why my “Recent Post Permalinks getting change in second Blog page?"

supportbot — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:40:46 +0000

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anahit2011 on "Why my “Recent Post Permalinks getting change in second Blog page?"

anahit2011 — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:40:45 +0000

Hi All,

I have a simple list of Recent Posts as permalink in the sidebar of my Blog page. They look fine in my recent Blog page, BUT when I go to second page of my blog, they get change!! By other word , these recent post permalinks are always similar with the posts on that blog page!!! How can I fix that issue? Any idea?

Here is my Code for recent post permalink :
<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query('showposts=5'.'&paged='.$paged);
?>
<?php while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

timethief on "replicate display of recent posts - "The Columnist" blog"

timethief — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:45:00 +0000

A shame we can't edit HTML directly like we can CSS, but oh well.

A shame are you kidding? Allowing bloggers to edit templates and themes on a multi-user blogging platform like this one where all blogs wearing the same theme are using the same underlying template is not possible.