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Make sure you get the updated version of this Plugin and you can get help for specific codes within the new version from the Plugin author as this article reflects the older version. I’ll be updating it soon.

It’s showing the date of the post then the title of the post, how do I get it to not show the date, but to show just the title?

Thanks for the help. The new version of Customizable Post Listings has an administration panel interface, which makes it easier for handling the “typical” post listing features, but when you want a more specific issue, you have to dig into the code. Please let him know about this and give him your feedback. He’s working hard to make this incredibly sophisticated and flexible Plugin easier to use.

Using the default order of the plugin for the function:


function c2c_get_recent_posts( $num_posts = 5,
$format = "%post_date%: %post_URL%",
$categories = '',
$orderby = 'date',
$order = 'DESC',
$offset = 0,
$date_format = 'm/d/Y',
$authors = '',
$post_type = 'post',
$post_status = 'publish',
$nclude_passworded_posts = false,


I’ve found that instead of the (”", “”, “” in both the plugin author and Lorelle’s example, I had to construct the steps literally. In other words, I had to fill in the literal defaults in place of “” until I was able to obtain the desired criteria.

After the ...", I had to put a comma, a space, then '' for $category, then another comma and space and then 'date' for $orderby and so on. Afterwards, things displayed properly.

So in the case where I wanted to display multiple authors (except for me), I did this…


<?php c2c_get_recent_posts(10, "%post_date%: %post_URL%", '', 'date', 'DESC', 0, 'm/d/Y', '3 4 5 6 7 8'); ?>


The last series of single-quotes from 3-8 are the author ID’s, which is required for the code to work.

Perhaps a bit on the convoluted side, but it does have the desired effect.

Hope this helps, and hope that the author will make it less cumbersome for us mere mortals.
V.

You will need to contact the Plugin author as there have been huge changes in how this Plugin works and this document is being worked on to be updated accordingly.

What happens is the title of the post is displayed but not the description. I am lost

I tried this 2 variation (with and without the quotes):

Recent Posts by Alex Siverson
<?php c2c_get_recent_posts(50, “%post_URL%”, “”, “”, “”, “”, 58); ?>

Recent Posts by Alex Siverson
<?php c2c_get_recent_posts(50, “%post_URL%”, “”, “”, “”, “”, “114″); ?>

The list doesn’t appear:
http://casadogalo.com/terdgdf/

What am I doing wrong?

Cheers,

Diego

I was getting confused because I read that the plugin was no longer being supported etc, but then there was a whole new version out so I wasnt quite sure what was going on. Im going to have another look over there and another go at it, Thanks again..

Martin