{"id":45,"date":"2008-08-25T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ridgesolutions.ie\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-01-12T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T18:37:08","slug":"displaying-last-wordpress-post-on-random-web-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ridgesolutions.ie\/index.php\/2008\/08\/25\/displaying-last-wordpress-post-on-random-web-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Displaying latest wordpress post on ‘random’ Web Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our\u00a0client’s brief was\u00a0to display their latest blog post on their main web page in a truncated form, their main web page is not part or their blog.\u00a0 After a little searching I came across a wordpress plugin called Get-a-Post<\/a>\u00a0which seemed to promise just what we required.<\/p>\n

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It will retrieve a post, and sets the post’s data up correctly so that wordpress functions like the_title() and the_content() which must normally be called from within the wordpress loop can be called by php code that is outside of the wordpress loop, this is important to us as we want to display the data on a web page which is not part of the actual wordpress blog – from a ‘random’ page.<\/p>\n

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To install the plugin, just download it, and copy get-a-post.php to the blog’s wp-content\/plugins\/ directory.\u00a0 Then goto the wordpress admin\/plugins screen and activate it.<\/p>\n

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Once the plugin has been activated, its function get_a_post() can be called from any php script, if called with no parameters the latest post will be made active – perfect!\u00a0 Before calling it make sure to include\/require ‘wp-config.php’.\u00a0 Here is an example script that gets the latest post’s title and content and packages it up into a div and some spans:<\/p>\n

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<?php require_once(“.\/wp-config.php”); ?><\/p>\n

<?php get_a_post(); ?>
\n<div class=”last_post_div”>
\n<span class=”last_post_title”><?php the_title()?><\/span> – <span class=”last_post_content”>
\n<?php echo get_the_content(); ?>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our\u00a0client’s brief was\u00a0to display their latest blog post on their main web page in a truncated form, their main web page is not part or their blog.\u00a0 After a little searching I came across a wordpress plugin called Get-a-Post\u00a0which seemed to promise just what we required. \u00a0 It will retrieve a post, and sets the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t