Comments on: How to add 5 full Wordpress posts on an external html page

By: venkat

venkat — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:32:50 +0000

is it possible to have a side bar(with previous posts) too.. and when clicked on them, the main post is changed..??!!!

By: jamis

jamis — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:10:17 +0000

What sort of error message are you getting?

By: JHMac

JHMac — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:05:45 +0000

Did your database log in info change with hosts? If not, is the url different now?

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:48:55 +0000

Thank you so much for this script! I was able to use it with a previous hosting provider, but unfortunately, I changed hosts and the script does not seem to work.

Please help!! – e-mail would be best

By: jamis

jamis — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:40:16 +0000

@Kevin: That issue is fixed now. I had put a "0" (shown here, selecting only the first result) where it should have been "$i" which would show each row's result.

$blog_permalink = $blog_url . mysql_result($query_result, 0, "post_name");

My apologies. Thanks for pointing that out.

By: jamis

jamis — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:40:25 +0000

@Kevin: Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll take a look at it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:00:17 +0000

Hi Jamis,

Thanks for trying to solve the permalink “issue”.
I now indeed notice that the permalink-name is shown but it seems that the same name (from the first post) is shown for all posts.

I don’t think I have done something wrong. Can you maybe check this?

Thanks a lot!

By: Chab

Chab — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:32:59 +0000

Thank you very much for this code. I can’t tell you how happy it made me.

I also used a UNION SELECT thing to bring queries from multiple tables.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:14:59 +0000

(Just added the same reply at the Previous Article mentioned at top: http://www.bluebreeze.net/blog/?p=11)

Wow, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks.

But like Darrel (September 8th, 2008 at 4:11 pm), I too, wanted to pull X amount of posts from the Y category.

It seems that the new WordPress table structure is a bit different, and post_category doesn’t work any more.

So i good buddy of mine sent me the following query which works like a charm. Just use this with the rest of Jamis’s code:

$query = “SELECT distinct ID, post_title, post_date, guid, post_content, post_name FROM wp_posts, wp_terms, wp_term_relationships WHERE wp_posts.id = wp_term_relationships.object_id AND wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = wp_terms.term_id AND post_type=’post’ AND post_status=’publish’ AND wp_terms.slug = ‘news’ ORDER by post_date DESC LIMIT 5″;

Just replace wp_terms.slug = ‘news’ in my example with the category slug you need.

The category is represented by either ID, Name or Slug, so you can use which ever you like.

For ID, use: wp_terms.term_id=’n’
For Name, use: wp_terms.name=’Word or words’
For Slug, Use: wp_terms.slug=’word-or-words’

By: Sesso

Sesso — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:16:07 +0000

Great site.