Comments on: Custom Query Shortcode: Run a Loop inside Any Post/Page

By: Bjarne

Bjarne — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:19:09 +0000

By the way…

When making a query for a particular category using tag it works, but not if you use tag_id

By: Bjarne

Bjarne — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:11:22 +0000

Hi there, Thanks for this super nice shortcode. I wonder why something like this is not part of WP out of the box. I have put the code in my functions.php and inserted a shortcode on a page. I am however having some problems excluding certain tags from the query as well as putting my custom field values in the output. For excluding tags I have tried using tag__not_in in the shortcode without success. Is this possible? If so, how would it look like in the shortcode? To output my custom field values I have tried adding $temp_erf = get_post_meta($post_ID, 'erf', true); in the loop and then a $temp_erf in the output. Am I missing something obvious here or is this a limit to the shortcode?

By: WPGPL Team

WPGPL Team — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:44:56 +0000

Interesting method, for some writer that didn’t understand PHP this one really useful

By: chuck scott

chuck scott — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:24:46 +0000

very interesting concept … do you know if this can also be done with the shortcode for gallery ..?? … i’d love to loop thru the gallery thumbnails and insert hover-over links/tooltips with the gallery’s medium sized image thus not sure if your loop example would work in such a situation or if plugin path is better direction ..??..

By: Quasel

Quasel — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:18:28 +0000

Here is a solution quite similar to yours but without the need auf the regex … and its easier to modify the output … might be intresting for you – i would remove the category part over there but …

http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-shortcode-display-the-loop

greeting

By: Dave Thackeray

Dave Thackeray — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:24:49 +0000

Ok something’s been nagging at me a while and the only way out was to build a page template with query_posts () – but I reckon you can offer a better solution with this example.

What I need to do is have a link on my main navbar to the latest post in a particular category. A child link on the navbar needs to link to all posts in that category EXCEPT the latest post.

Could I use your code to make this happen for me?

By: OldGuy

OldGuy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:49:17 +0000

You mentioned that you thought this should probably be a plugin instead of a function. I’d love to see an article on creating a plugin. :)

By: matt mcinvale

matt mcinvale — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:15:02 +0000

add another parameter to your function & shortcode.

[loop query="foobar" id="something]

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:13:13 +0000

Good point… although in my case I wanted to add ID values to the different unordered lists so I wanted those outside.

I guess the code above is more generically useful, but in real use should be customized to specific needs. Perhaps adding a parameter or two for specifying what kind of output you want…

By: matt mcinvale

matt mcinvale — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:11:09 +0000

personally, i'd have the function output the open and closing list tags as well. if it doesn't return anything you'll have unnecessary code in your page (ewwww!). i used something similar on a client's site. the 3 boxes on the page randomly pulls child pages from products.