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Plugin Description
This widget displays posts in the category, order, and quantity of your choosing. It supports custom templates!
After installation, drag-and-drop the new “Category Widget” to a widget area, choose the categories you wish to display, and tell it the order and quantity in which you wish to display them.
Templates
The default template is just plain-ol’ HTML5, without any CSS; it’s meant to fit right into any theme without modification.
However, if you’re a theme developer and you wish to use custom markup or WP functions inside your template, here’s how to customize it:
- In the root of your theme’s directory, create a new file called
catswidget.php (or copy template.php from posts-by-cat-widget/views to your theme’s root, and rename it catswidget.php, if you’d rather use the default as a starting point).
- Craft your loop. Just make sure you use the
$posts variable, like this:if ( $posts -> have_posts() ) :
while ( $posts -> have_posts() ) :
$posts -> the_post(); ?>
// Your markup here
endwhile;
endif;
- The widget is just a simple custom loop, so you’ll have access to whatever data WP_Query has access to inside the loop.
TODO
- Perhaps we could use it to query custom post types/taxonomies, not just Posts
- Add hooks/filters
- Add ability to extend admin
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