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How can I show second most recent post in sidebar, if most recent post is open in the browser?

I am working on an online magazine in WordPress PHP. I created a custom post type (article) with 4 available custom categories. In the sidebar I want to show the most recent post of all the 4 ...
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How to obtain the recent posts without their content in an efficient way?

It would be great to make a single DB request but I don't know how to do that either. I have this code and it works but I want to change it to be more efficient: $cs = get_categories(array( '...
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How do I get the content excerpt of the recent post?

Hi I am needing some help trying to add the recent post excerpt to the bottom left div of my webpage. below is the piece of code that I'm having problems with in-between the p tags. I can display the ...
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How do I add recent posts to the menu?

How to add recents posts to the menu? Entries with pictures. "Menu-item-object-custom" items in a div container? What I have now is: header.php wp_nav_menu( array( '...
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Editing HTML structure of Gutenberg layout recent post?

I used gutenberg layout method with wordpress editor to call recent posts. Wordpress automatically generated this HTML structure. <ul class="wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-...
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Recent posts on homepage: different thumbnail based on logged in status and post category

This works well on archive.php, but not working on the homepage. For some reason, the first statement doesn't get applied: if a post is in Members category and user is not logged in, it's supposed to ...
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How to check if the current page is at a specified path in the URL?

I have a page marked as the Posts page that lists most recent blog posts. It is at path /blog. I want to know when the user is on this page so that I can display a list of categories of blog posts at ...
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Display Most Recent Post Widget Title On Page

I want to display the Recent Posts Widget title on a page, however I could not find a solution yet. I dont want to display the recent posts on the page only the title of the most recent posts widget, ...
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WP Bakery Load More Button loads the same posts

I'm trying to feed posts in my blog page with a WP bakery widget. I have 8 posts published, but when I hit load more button it loads first 3 posts instead of those in the end. Attaching screenshots, ...
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Display the date before the post title in recent posts widget

In the recent posts widget I have the post link first, and the post date second item, How can I change, to display the date in front of the post title? Thank you. register_sidebar( array( '...
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How to Link to Most Recent Custom Post of Same Term

Title says it all. I'm trying to link to the most recent post of a custom post type, but only within the same term. Currently my code successfully echos the correct term ID but doesn't show a link ...
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The styles in the recent posts widgets plugin not working

I am trying to add a wordpress recent posts widget plugin in a theme but somehow even after adding the same class the styles ae not reflecting in the front end i tried to enqueue style in the plugin ...
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How do I exclude recent post from recent post php widget

I have this code, and I tried adding in post__not_in as suggested by another post I found on this website, and it didn't break anything but didn't work either. I also tried different examples. Here's ...
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widget_posts_args not using the number of posts in widget

So I'm using the widget_posts_args filter to pull in my custom post type posts inside the core 'Recent Posts' widget. Here is the code: add_filter('widget_posts_args', function() { $params['...
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Custom recent-posts shortcode's thumbnail image not in line with rest of code

I'm making a custom recent-posts shortcode and I have a problem with the thumbnail image, it always shows it above everything else (permalink, title, etc...) even though I put it after in the code, is ...
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Linking to the most recent post in my podcast category

I am attempting to pulloff what the author did here: How can I link to the most recent post in a category? However, after updating my functions.php file in my child theme I can not get it to load the ...
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WordPress recent post

I have the static website template on the following domain : example.com and I have wordpress site in the sub domain : sub.example.com I want a code to get the latest post ( just post title ) from ...
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How to output only blockquotes content from recent posts in a widget?

I created a simple widget that displays recent post titles. How can I only display the content that is between < blockquote >< /blockquote > from recent posts? For example, all my posts have a ...
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2 column recent post query not respecting float right [closed]

I am trying to display recent posts where I have one on the left showing the image, title, excerpt and author info and on the right, just the title, date and author information. I want it to show the ...
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Posts Per Page with a button to add more Posts

I have $recent_posts array with a 'posts_per_page' that look like thah: <?php $num_per_page = 3; $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(array( 'posts_per_page' => $num_per_page, '...
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How to display recent / random posts by its category

trying to display random posts from each category that my custom post belongs to (it is related to 2 categories). I am trying to get post categories by id. I have tried to put category ID manually but ...
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menu item to display the most recent post

I spent most of the day reviewing past questions and answers and have not found anything that addresses what I am trying to do. Maybe I didn't word my search correctly. Lets say I have a category of ...
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Recent posts with different class name for each post and a scrollbar?

So far i found a widget ("Ultimate Posts Widget") with different class name for each post but it has no scroll bar.. any other widget suggestions ?
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Use wp_get_recent_posts with search term

I have a function that uses wp_get_recent_posts() I need to use this same function on my search page but am having problems adding the search parameter to the $args array. Does anyone know if this ...
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Is it possible to show thumbnails along with recent post from a wordpress blog on static website's homepage?

Please help me to figure this out that I want to show thumbnails along with recent post from a wordpress blog on static website's homepage. Following code are working fine but I need to show one ...
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If numberposts = -1 offset won't work

I have an issue with a shortcode I have built. The short code pulls the most recent posts based off of certain parameters. below are the parameters extract( shortcode_atts( array ( 'numberposts' ...
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Proper way to display latest 5 posts grouped by post type?

i need to display the latest 5 posts of each post type, something like: Latest BMW Posts: Post title BMW 1 Post title BMW 2 Latest Audi Posts: Post title Audi 1 Post title Audi 2 And so on. It ...
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How to display recent posts added in several custom post types

So I have several custom post types on my site and would like to have a place on my home page that will show the most recent 6 posts from 3 different custom post types. I have looked at the setup on ...
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'Recent Posts' links open in new window, without copying the 'WP_Widget_Recent_Posts' class

I have a requirement to have links on the 'recent posts' widget open in a new window (It's not something I would implement given the choice, but I've been asked to do it). I've found out that to ...
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Display recent post by tag

I have 6 related posts by tag in every post. But some tags have only 2 or 3 posts. So in these posts, related posts section shows only 2 or 3 post. I want to complete related posts (if not 6) with ...
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Change recent posts widget title

How can i change the recent post widget title programmatically? I use this code in my footer.php to add recent posts widget. <?php the_widget( 'WP_Widget_Recent_Posts' ); ?>
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Display css ONLY on most recent post of specific category?

The below is just a scenario to provide context so you understand what im trying to accomplish, However please keep your answers related to the title if possible and a css solution/function. I have ...
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How to display Most Recently Read 10 Posts by a logged in user in wordpress

I'm wordpress newbie and working on a website where users can register and maintain their profile. One of the main function of the logged in users is displaying their most RECENTLY READ 20 or 10 ...
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How to start with post number x?

I have two areas where I fetch the most recent entries. In the first area, I want to get the first 10 posts. In the second area, I want to fetch the posts starting at post number 11.... I have this: ...
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How to filter wp_get_recent_posts() to only posts that have thumbnails?

I made a script that shows recent posts. But here's the problem, I want to show only posts that have thumbnails, and I want to show at least 10 posts if there are that many without thumbnails. So the ...
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Sort / display recent posts by publish date

I recently renovated some sites and made many small (usually typos) corrections to several posts. That of course changed the last update date, so that now, if I display recent posts in a widget, they ...
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How to display recent posts on home page with title, post date, author and featured image?

I am looking to display some undecided number of recent posts (no more than 5) on my home page banner. For each post, I would like to display the title, post date, author and a featured images as ...
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Two posts are loaded instead of one?

I am trying to add a read posts function to my Wordpress website. To achieve this, I create a cookie on which I store all the IDs of read posts. Every time a post is loaded, the following function is ...
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Add hero image to home page (blog format) via the dashboard

I am looking to add a hero image to my site's home page (blog format) via the dashboard. I have successfully used Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to add hero images to static pages and posts. However I'...
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Showing wordpress latest post thumbnails in slider with auto increment

I would like to show latest posts with its thumbnails only in slider. But my first figure element has a class. Can I apply a class to first thumbnail as it is in html structure below? And then Can I ...
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Recent Posts widget without Title

I want to add "Recent Posts" widget in a sidebar without a title but every time I add it, it shows "Recent Posts" text as title. How do I have it without title? I don't want to use any plugin for this....
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date_query problem

I'd like to get the closest post to today's post; yes, I checked and search this topic and found the code working for me: date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Warsaw"); setlocale(LC_ALL, en_GB); $year = ...
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Best way to add image to recent posts widget?

I want to add an image/thumbnail to the Wordpress recent posts widget. This is the only related question that I've seen and it uses filters and seems to be a bit round-about. I don't want to install ...
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Modifying recent post widget to include icons for post titles

I have downloaded a plugin from the wordpress repository which allows adding font icons to the titles of posts, you can select a different icon for individual posts according to preference. Now, the ...
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How to filter content by language with WPGlobus

I am new in PHP and I cannot find the way or the programming logic to do this filter. I have the following code but I do not know how to filter it, Can anyone help me with the code? <?php ...
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Display Custom Post Type in Recent Posts

I have the following problem: I have created a custom post type matratze and currently besides the custom posts no other posts exist. Hence, nothing is being displayed under the recent posts. The ...
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How to add thumbnails from recent posts to owl-carousel in wordpress automatically?

This is the site that I am working with. I need to make the green images into recent post thumbnails, to be able to have a content writer/author (non developer) designate a thumbnail to display in the ...
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Single-post preview repeats thumbnails in Jupiter Recent Posts widget

I'm using the Jupiter theme version 5.1.8 with WordPress version 4.6. When I preview a single post, the thumbnails displayed by the Jupiter theme's Recent Posts widget are all repeats of the current ...
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Recent Posts Widget URL / Domain change

we use the "Recent Posts Widget" within our page footer. After we changed the site URL from development to live the links of the "Recent Posts Widget" didn't change. First we used the plugin "Search &...
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Add thumbnail to recent posts widget using filters

I want to add thumbnail to WordPress default recent posts widget, and I want to do it using any available filter. Is there any filter know to this subject/topic
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