Comments on: Create a “Recent Posts” Module Outside of WordPress http://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts Legendary scribbles about JavaScript, HTML5, AJAX, PHP, CSS, and ∞. Thu, 24 May 2012 07:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Adam Thompsonhttp://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-27249 Adam Thompson Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:43:05 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-27249 Ah, perfect. Thanks! Needed to put latest blog post links on a site and didn't want to bother one of our programmers...I knew there had to be a handy code snippet to do it with. I just had to tweak the code for my permalink structure! Thanks! Ah, perfect. Thanks! Needed to put latest blog post links on a site and didn’t want to bother one of our programmers…I knew there had to be a handy code snippet to do it with. I just had to tweak the code for my permalink structure! Thanks!

]]> By: Senyohttp://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-27067 Senyo Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:51:30 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-27067 I have created a website and want to add a blog page to it. Can someone please give me an idea on how to do this? I have created a website and want to add a blog page to it. Can someone please give me an idea on how to do this?

]]> By: lowes couponhttp://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-24917 lowes coupon Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:42:35 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-24917 You could certainly see your expertise within the work you write. The arena hopes for even more passionate writers like you who are not afraid to mention how they believe. All the time follow your heart. You could certainly see your expertise within the work you write. The arena hopes for even more passionate writers like you who are not afraid to mention how they believe. All the time follow your heart.

]]> By: Becmenhttp://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-23155 Becmen Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:17:11 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-23155 Thank you! I was Googling for instructions on how to do this, and everything that came up referenced wp-load instead of wp-blog-header. Your links put me on the right track. Thank you! I was Googling for instructions on how to do this, and everything that came up referenced wp-load instead of wp-blog-header. Your links put me on the right track.

]]> By: Alex Crookshttp://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-17760 Alex Crooks Fri, 21 May 2010 10:30:39 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-17760 Fantastic thank you! Was trying to find a solution that didn't use wordpress's functions :D Fantastic thank you! Was trying to find a solution that didn’t use wordpress’s functions :D

]]> By: Dave33http://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-17605 Dave33 Fri, 14 May 2010 13:06:02 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-17605 Fairly new to WP. Is it possible to generate posts dynamically in wordpress? For example, I have listing data that gets created or updated daily and I'd like to push that data to my blog as posts dynamically. I assume this is possible? I'd also like to dynamically remove a post once the item is gone. The data will always look the same in the posts.If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.Thanks,Dave Fairly new to WP. Is it possible to generate posts dynamically in wordpress? For example, I have listing data that gets created or updated daily and I’d like to push that data to my blog as posts dynamically. I assume this is possible? I’d also like to dynamically remove a post once the item is gone. The data will always look the same in the posts.

If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Dave

]]> By: Michael Houghtonhttp://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-17393 Michael Houghton Mon, 03 May 2010 13:24:23 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-17393 @Bruno Lustosa: another option is just to use the "guid" field from the posts table, which stores in the canonical form for the script (http://servername/?p=nnn)While this isn't the customised permalink, wordpress immediately serves a 301 (moved permanently) redirect to the custom permalink URL, which search engines should obey.@Bruno Lustosa: @Bruno Lustosa: another option is just to use the “guid” field from the posts table, which stores in the canonical form for the script (http://servername/?p=nnn)

While this isn’t the customised permalink, wordpress immediately serves a 301 (moved permanently) redirect to the custom permalink URL, which search engines should obey.

@Bruno Lustosa:

]]> By: Michael Houghtonhttp://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-17363 Michael Houghton Sat, 01 May 2010 13:58:23 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-17363 Daniel15: Speed is far less of an issue here than you might think, actually. If either the blog or the site you're pulling headlines on is browsed fairly frequently, there's a good chance that PHP will have kept the WP database connection open and that the query result will be in MySQL's query cache, which is a pretty efficient thing.Having said that, your approach has the advantage of working regardless of where the blog is hosted, and indeed regardless of which app the blog is running on, which makes it the cleanest solution. Daniel15: Speed is far less of an issue here than you might think, actually. If either the blog or the site you’re pulling headlines on is browsed fairly frequently, there’s a good chance that PHP will have kept the WP database connection open and that the query result will be in MySQL’s query cache, which is a pretty efficient thing.

Having said that, your approach has the advantage of working regardless of where the blog is hosted, and indeed regardless of which app the blog is running on, which makes it the cleanest solution.

]]> By: Daniel15http://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-17358 Daniel15 Sat, 01 May 2010 01:48:43 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-17358 I did something similar on my website recently. Having queries on the page seemed a bit messy, and the WordPress way had a lot of global variables and also seemed messy. I ended up writing a script that loaded the RSS feed (via SimpleXML), got the data I needed, and output a serialised PHP array into a file. Then the page on my site just loads that serialised array from file (or it could even be from cache) when it needs it. Saves the overheads of database queries or XML parsing on every load, and is quite a bit faster :) I did something similar on my website recently. Having queries on the page seemed a bit messy, and the WordPress way had a lot of global variables and also seemed messy. I ended up writing a script that loaded the RSS feed (via SimpleXML), got the data I needed, and output a serialised PHP array into a file. Then the page on my site just loads that serialised array from file (or it could even be from cache) when it needs it. Saves the overheads of database queries or XML parsing on every load, and is quite a bit faster :)

]]> By: Jose Stevenhttp://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-recent-posts#comment-17354 Jose Steven Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:19:30 +0000 http://davidwalsh.name/?p=4951#comment-17354 Thank you for starting this excellent thread. I've been looking info like this. Thank you for starting this excellent thread. I’ve been looking info like this.

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