NS Recent Posts

Created by: Nikita Seleckis

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Returns an array of the most recent posts. Simple and powerfull.

Usage

Function ns_recent_posts(10, 0, 200, false, ", ") returns an array of objects of recent posts.

Params for function:

$no_posts – number of posts to display. Default 10.
$first – Number of the first post. Used when is needed to display, for example, posts from 10 to 20, but not from the first post. Default 0.
$excerpt_len – Number of symbols in excerpt. Default 200.
$db_unicode – boolean value variable. Determines if your wordpress database is in unicode format (UTF-8). Default FALSE. FALSE – non-Unicode, uses standart string functions. TRUE – Unicode(UTF-8), uses mbstring functions.
$tags_divider – string value of categories list divider. Default “, “.

Use function ns_recent_posts() in a loop.

Objects returned by array has properties, that is used in construction: $object->property, where “$object” – your variable used in a loop, but “property” can be:

post_title – Title of a post
permalink – Link to post
bookmark – Title of a post of “title” attribute
day – day
month – month
year – year
post_content – post preview (excerpt)
post_tags – list of categories (tags)
comment_count – number of categories

Example

<?php
foreach (ns_recent_posts(10, 0, 200, false, ", ")  as $re_post){
echo <<<HTML
<div class="recent-post">
      <h3><a href="{$re_post->permalink}" rel="bookmark" title="{$re_post->bookmark}>
            {$re_post->post_title}
      </a></h3>
      <span class="post-date">{$re_post->day}.{$re_post->month}.{$re_post->year}</span>
      <div class="entry">
            <p>{$re_post->post_content}</p>
            <span class="tags"><strong>Tags: </strong>{$re_post->post_tags}</span>
            <span class="read-comments">
                  <a href="{$re_post->permalink}#respond">Comments ({$re_post->comment_count}) &raquo;</a>
            </span>
      </div>
</div>
HTML;
}
?>

Note

Place this code to any place in any file of your template.
To show value of property of object in “echo”, add braces in construction: {$object->property}
Plugin also erases all tags, and leaves simple text in excerpt.

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