April's Call Posts

This plugin is useful if you are using lots of posts in a variety of ways on your website, i.e. not just on your homepage and not just separated out by categories. For example, You may have a blog with lots of information on upcoming events and lots of announcements. You have a variety of people who come to your blog looking for different information, and it’s hard for them to filter through everything. You can have a “Cats” page on which you talk about your stance on cats, and use [ahs_callposts] to also call in a list of posts in the “cats” category, perhaps only the most recent 10, perhaps just titles, perhaps displaying just excerpts, perhaps displaying an image for each post. Then have a separate page for the “dogs” category. Etc!

Features

• Specify category
• Specify number of posts
• Specify content style
• Specify random order
• Specify multiple columns
• Create your own template (NEW as of 2.0)
• … and more
• Choose global default settings that can be overridden for any individual instance of the shortcode.

1. Upload the aprils-call-posts directory to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Study the documentation so you understand the options
4. Start using the shortcode

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   Documentation Area 1

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   Documentation Area 2

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   Documentation Area 3

4. 

   Global Settings

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   Template Settings

2.2.1

• Fixed a bug in category/taxonomy handling.

2.2.0

• Updated and fix security concerns.

2.1.1

• Added screenshots.
• Fixed Readme.txt error.

2.1

• Cleaned up code, updated to be compatible with latest PHP and WordPress.
• Updated compatibility version.

2.0.14

• Added option to ignore globally-set custom_field on specific shortcode instances.
• Updated compatibility version.

2.0.13

• Updated compatibility version.

2.0.12

• Replaced a custom expert-generator with WordPress’s built-in one, to solve efficiency issues.

2.0.11

• Fixed an error where excerpts and content were being manufactured even for templates that don’t include them
• Updated compatibility version

2.0.10

• Fixed a small error introduced by 2.0.9

2.0.9

• Fixed a bug that was doing custom-post-type ordering incorrectly when there were a lot of posts

2.0.8

• Fixed a bug introduced in 2.0.7 that affected situations where a shortcode was calling a single category (not custom tax)

2.0.7

• Added ability to specify a different taxonomy than ‘category’ with category_tax

2.0.6

• Added more tags (div, span, script, iframe) to the list of tags that are not stripped out with CONTENTNOIMG
• Added category option “byid” which only grabs ids specified. You can also now specify an order of “post__in” which is useful in this case.
• Updated compatibility and tweaked admin display css.

2.0.5

• Fixed minor regex error causing wrong image sizes to be pulled.

2.0.4

• Added option to pull in posts specified by ID.

2.0.3

• Minor tweaks including adding a donate button.

2.0.2

• Fixed a problem that converted dollar amounts (e.g. $10) to zero (0).

2.0.1

• Default order set to DESC instead of ASC
• Template tag added for ‘full content sans images’
• Can now add a header to the resulting list that doesn’t show if list is empty

2.0

• NEW!! Added a template-driven system for post display
• FUN! Re-designed admin page to have tabs
• Added option to specify a post_type to handle custom post types
• Removed requirement for specifying a category/type

1.6.3

• Fixed random ordering

1.6.2

• Fixed problems with “linktitle”
• Fixed broken ‘edit’ image if WP not installed in root

1.6.1

• Fixed title-style list problem some people were having
• Fixed get_the_excerpt() problem

1.6

• Added proper LI as option for separating title-style list

1.5

• Added option to pull posts in at random instead of just by post_date or custom field
• Added option to control size of the image, if it’s included
• Added option to choose ‘read more’ text and pre-‘read more’ text
• Post titles now linked by default. Added option to un-link them
• Miscellaneous code cleanup

1.4

• Added shortcode examples to settings page.
• Added col_item_width, so let you control the width of columns when in two-column mode
• Moved included styles from stylesheet to settings page, to make them easier to maintain

1.3

• Now can specify whether or not to show the date and if so, what PHP date() format to use.

1.2

• Now can specify multiple categories.

1.1

• Fixed path to icon_edit.gif.
• Added do_action so that shortcode can be used in widgets

1.0

• No significant changes have been made to the functionality; it’s just being converted to a legit plugin.

0.5

• The first version of this plugin was actually a collection of functions in a single website’s functions.php file.