Latest Post from each Category plugin for WordPress

Hi,

I’ve tried the plugin but there’s no output… I’m using WP 2.6.1 and plugin version 1.8
I’ve tried inserting it into a template and in a post/page content… to no avail.
Have you got an FAQ or some other info to troubleshoot this?

Thanks in advance!

Forget to mention, I’m using WP 2.6.1
P.s: tried even with a custom template and the php code but nothing…

Hi - thanks for this. Two points - I’d LOOOOVE a simple plugin like this written backwards -i.e. I just want to put the latest posts from ONE category on a page.

Currently, I have to achieve that by ‘omitting’ all my categories except one.

The other thing made me smile is - do you know your file is actually called ‘dd-lastest-from-each’ not ‘latest-from-each’?

Hi - love the concept - but just wondered if you can tailor the sitemap for individual pages (in the html for each page I guess), as opposed to a single global customise at the settings>plug-in level?

Many thanks,
Mark

Hi! Great idea! Two questions/suggestions:
1. Is there a way of playing with the style/css?
2. Can one exclude subcategories?
Thanks!

Thanks for a great plugin! Trying to get the plugin to show an image along with the category title, but can’t get it to work. I use the Yet another photoblog and all my posts are YAPB posts.
I tried adding this and the file complies, but nothing shows up on the page:

The tag for inputing a thumbnail of the post's image is: 
<?php yapb_thumbnail('<div>', array(), '</div>', array('w=200', 'q=90'), 'thumbnail'); ?>  

So I tried:
$the_output .= yapb_thumbnail('<div>', array(), '</div>', array('w=200', 'q=90'), 'thumbnail');

Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi, I like to find out is it possible to display the script not within the template file. Instead, I like it to display in another directory, and not within my blog directory. Pls advice

How would one go about including the first one or two posts from each particular category in the site’s RSS feed?

Hi,

I have:

added an option to remove category from output
remove duplicate posts
fixed invalid html tags
optimsed html / php /sql for speed

If you want to download my updated version of the code (1.7mattc) goto: http://mattclegg.com/blog/wordpress/latest-post-from-each-category-plugin-17-mattc

mattc

I’m also having the problem with a delay between posting and this script picking it up. I think I’ve found out what the problem is however and I have a workaround. I live on the east coast, but my site is hosted on a server on the west coast. If I set the timezone to UTC -8 then the posts show up immediately. I think the script must compare the current time on the server to see what is new, but it can’t see posts from a few hours ahead of the server’s current time so it ignores them. If this was changed somehow so that it recognized posts that were posted after the current time then no one would have this issue.

Hi, thanks for plugin but i have a problem, i want show more posts from all category but this plugin shows a posts from every category how can i do it or if it is possible can you write a mini code for it, please. Thanks…

This simple patch adds a new option, that switches off the ‘per category’ part and just shows all recent posts, using the same formatting etc. I know that kind of subverts the purpose of the plugin, but it was what I needed to do.

Index: dd-lastest-from-each.php
===================================================================
--- dd-lastest-from-each.php	(revision 532)
+++ dd-lastest-from-each.php	(working copy)
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 add_option('ddle_date_format', 'F jS, Y');
 add_option('ddle_excerpts', FALSE);
 add_option('ddle_chars', 200);
+add_option('ddle_all_posts', FALSE);
 add_option('ddle_comment_link', FALSE);
 add_option('ddle_comment_num', FALSE);
 add_option('ddle_comments_none', FALSE);
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@
 		update_option('ddle_date_format', 'F jS, Y');
 		update_option('ddle_excerpts', FALSE);
 		update_option('ddle_chars', 200);
+		update_option('ddle_all_posts', FALSE);
 		update_option('ddle_comment_link', FALSE);
 		update_option('ddle_comment_num', FALSE);
 		update_option('ddle_comments_none', FALSE);
@@ -67,6 +69,7 @@
 		update_option('ddle_date_format', (string) $_POST["ddle_date_format"]);
 		update_option('ddle_excerpts', (bool) $_POST["ddle_excerpts"]);
 		update_option('ddle_chars', (string) $_POST["ddle_chars"]);
+		update_option('ddle_all_posts', (bool) $_POST["ddle_all_posts"]);
 		update_option('ddle_comment_link', (bool) $_POST["ddle_comment_link"]);
 		update_option('ddle_comment_num', (bool) $_POST["ddle_comment_num"]);
 		update_option('ddle_comments_none', (bool) $_POST["ddle_comments_none"]);
@@ -178,6 +181,13 @@
 		(0 = unlimited)
 	</td></tr>
 
+	<tr valign="top"><td width="35%" align="right">
+              Include all posts
+	</td><td align="left">
+		<input type="checkbox" name="ddle_all_posts" value="checkbox" <?php if (get_option('ddle_all_posts')) echo "checked='checked'"; ?>/>
+              <br/>(This option disables the 'from each category' part of the plugin.)
+	</td></tr>
+
 	
 	</table>
 	</fieldset>
@@ -213,8 +223,8 @@
 	$ddle_comment_num = (bool)get_option('ddle_comment_num');
 	$ddle_comments_none = (bool)get_option('ddle_comments_none');
 	$ddle_limit = (int)get_option('ddle_limit');
+        $ddle_all_posts = (bool)get_option('ddle_all_posts');
 
-
 	$hide_check = '';
 	if ($ddle_hide_protected) {
 		$hide_check = " AND post_password = '' ";
@@ -292,11 +302,15 @@
 		}
 
 
+        if (!$ddle_all_posts) {
 
-	$used_cats = array();;
-	$i = 0;
-	foreach ($last_posts as $posts) {
+            /* scan through and remove all but the first post from each
+               category, unless we're including all posts. */
 
+            $used_cats = array();;
+            $i = 0;
+            foreach ($last_posts as $posts) {
+
 		if (in_array($posts->cat_name, $used_cats)) {
 			unset($last_posts[$i]);
 		} else {
@@ -304,7 +318,8 @@
 		}
 
 		$i++;
-	}
+            }
+        }
 	$last_posts = array_values($last_posts);
 

I don’t understand why you didn’t include the ability to limit the amount of posts shown, is there a way to do that?

How do i add a link at the end of the previews e.g. “Read More” link and then adding a

Plugin is a good idea but there is something wrong with this application. It is displaying wrong posts.. not the latest ones… but older posts… am I the only one experiencing the problem?

Thanks so much for the plugin! You’re the best, Aleister, so many useful plugins.

Hi,
first of all, thanks for this grate plugin. secondly it seems this is having some propagation delay between posting new content and being shown in your plugin, although the new post is immediately shown in side bar.

ok it’s easy i found it quickly despite my poor php knowlege
just add
AND {$tp}term_taxonomy.term_id = 3
after
AND {$tp}terms.term_id = {$tp}term_taxonomy.term_id

hi guys,
this is the plug-in i really nead in my home.php template thank you.

i’ve some features request related to post with multiple category and category exclusion.

i’ve posts with multiple cats maybe 2 or 3 like “Events, Free Conference, Workshops” and i’d like to show the most relevant post in “Events” and the coolest in “Workshops” now i’ve a single post repeated for all these cats cause it is the latest…(of course!:)

maybe you can work side by side with “Top Cat” http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/topcat/
if i’ve correctly understood it functionality
(english language is not my first talent

bye

excluding some categories option is need.

i really like this plugin, and have used it for a long time. the 2.3.1 upgrade threw me for a loop for a little while, but after getting in and getting dirty, i finally have everything fixed back up. i keep getting this error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/0/d144193462/htdocs/texas-fire/wp-content/plugins/dd-latest-from-each.php:435) in /homepages/0/d144193462/htdocs/texas-fire/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 391

i have been all over the WP forums and done all of what the FAQ suggests to fix it (clean the whitespace, check for carrige return) but to no avail. any suggestions ?

Great plug-in, really nice. Two things:

I just added a post, but the plug-in hasn’t noticed it — it is still showing the previous post in that Category as the recent one. I see that in Comment #63 someone else had a similar issue, which seemed to be fixed at that point, but something’s up again. Any thoughts?

Second thing, much less pressing, well, just see my Comment #169

Thanks again for a great plug-in.

Hi, heheh, it’s me again =P. For this plugin, I’m just wondering if you could add the [Author Name] and an Option to “Turn Author Names into links.”

It’s also helpful to have another Option to check the Category we don’t want to display the post (like the Similar Post Plugin by rmarsh.com/plugins =). Please, please add this Option as this will make this plugin more powerful!

*Hehe, here a sidenote: I plan to use this for an ezine articles site like ezinearticles.com, so the format for the display (which means I’ll hack your plugin =) is as follow:

[Post Title] [By Author Name] [in Category Name] [on Date Format] [- Post Excerpt]
//This format helps the flow = ‘make sense’ (e.g. Option to not show [on Date Format]: [Post Title] [By Author Name] [in Category Name][ - Post Excerpt].

//Your current display format: [Category][Post Title - ][Date][Excerpt].

Hope I make some sense/sensible suggestions xP. O.K. See you later D[r]agonDesign.

Very helpful plugin!
But why is it not working, when I’m inserting it into the text widget?
Thank you!

I see that you can limit the list to a certain number of categories, but is it possible to limit the output to a particular set of categories? E.g., if I only and always want it to shows categories 1, 4, 5, and 7, is that possible?

Hello,

People that view my blog with IE 6 are having a problem. The plugin is displaying the list all the way at the bottom of the page.

anyone else having this issue or know of a fix.

Thanks for providing this. Very useful. I’d like to use it on different pages of a site to only show one different category per site page, rather than list all categories. Is this possible?

How to sort names of categories in alphabetical order of wp admin panel-manage categories

Hello,

I really love this plugin, it works exactly as i wanted it to.
but there is one very small problem, I want my main page to display the entire posts. but the format does not seem to follow the template, they crumple up and lose all the format

here’s my website http://www.sheeply.com
the 1st post is by the plugin, the second post is the original post. Is there anything i can do so that it adds the and other formats into the plugin generated posts so that it looks like the second (the original) post?

Thank you very much!

Hey,

Great plugin, exactly what i was looking for. I was just wondering if i could add a line before each category (after the content is displayed.) I’m kind of new to the coding thing and was hoping you could tell me what to modify in the plugin code.

Thanks

Huh, weird… the two parameters should be

title_li=&depth=1&sort_column=menu_order

and

title_li=&depth=1&sort_column=menu_order&exclude=1466

where the number corresponds to the ‘latest’ page.

Thanks for the nice plugin, here’s what I’ve done with it.

1) I made a new page, ID number 1466, containing the following text:

“This page displays the latest post along in every category on this site.

If you’re reading this, either the plugin is disabled (maybe I am mid-upgrade), or I’ve simply messed up! If so, please let me know using the form below!”

2) I updated the ‘page’ template

				<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
				<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <!-- These two lines were existing code, for context -->
<?php if (($post->ID==1466) and (function_exists('dd_last_from_each'))) : 
echo dd_last_from_each(); 
?> 
				<?php else : ?>

and, before endwhile <?php endif; ?>

3) Now, if the plugin isn’t available, the page will display an apology, and if it is available it’ll show the plugin results.

4) My final step will be to hack the page links to not show the link to the page if the plugin is unavailable.

Thanks.

Hi,

I appreciate and I utilize your plugin on my site. I have just 2 comments:

* around line 64 of the last version (1.5)

replace
Latest Posts From Each Category v1.4

with
<h2>Latest Posts From Each Category v1.5</h2>

* it will be nice for non-english speaking people to change around line 302 the date function with the date_i18n()function to display a localized date format accordingly with the $WPLANG variable

replace
$the_output .= ' - ' . date($ddle_date_format, strtotime($posts->post_date));

with
$the_output .= ' - ' . date_i18n($ddle_date_format, strtotime($posts->post_date));

regards
marc

With your permission i traslated your plugin to spanish. Thanks for all.
The link: http://www.asuan-peluqueros.com/dd-lastest-from-each-SP.txt

Oops, the code won’t show properly. Ok, I used the info I found on this link:

http://latestpost.pastebin.co.uk/3890

Now I want to add a conditional statement that will run the code only if on a specific page. Is that relatively easy to do?

Gahhhh! This is the plug-in I’ve been looking far and wide for! I only need one modification.

I want to display 3 posts total. From a specified category.

Is it possible?

i would like to use this plugin on a different way. i want to show latest posts from another blog, is is possible with your plugin?

how would I change the plugin so that it does not insert a breakline after a separating “-” ? have a look here in the right sidebar: http://www.klub-kamikaze.com/ after every title there is a “-” and then a newline and very often the dash is on a line by itself… I woudl like to take out the linebreak after the dash, can I simply edit the plugin? do you have any plans for letting users edit the layout in the options page rather than editing the plugin?

i was curious about hiding child categories. i searched the comments and found this by Jess:

You can hide child categories by:

-In the script, find this line (on or about line 233):
AND post_status = ‘publish’
-Right ABOVE it, add this line:
AND {$table_prefix}categories.category_parent = 0

but that returns a db error. any sugg?

Great plugin, exactly what I’ve been looking for. It really helped me. How i can change it to show only comments to posts ?

Is there any way I could sort the categories in any other way than Alphabetical or Post Date?

My categories are an Anagram and are supposed to Read VALUE so those options don’t work for me.

Everything else works great and is what I need for my site.

Hi,

Is there any way to remove the big dot from infront of the listings?

Is it possible to add the option to exclude a specific category? I put posts I want to show up on the home page in a specific category (blog), as well as putting them in the category they belong (ex: News). So some posts are showing up in the list twice.

Great plugin, exactly what I’ve been looking for. Just one problem with wordpress 2.1, new pages are shown in the default category, is there a way to change this?

Hi there… this would be great if you could add the option to show more than one post/category. Like, to show a list of the most recent posts from each category.

How can i display the 3 latests post for each category instead of showing just 1?

Hey, I use your script at my site: http://www.makenosense.net. But when I post a new post and assign it to a category the listing of latest post from each category won’t change.

I found out that I need to post the “” inside the post, then save. And then edit it again and delete “” for the listing of latest posts to change.