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Output specific post from a category in Wordpress

Let's say you slice a website and need a nicely looking block in a sidebar with one recent post from certain category. Like in case with this one below: Daily Style Quote.

Logically following you need to run "the loop" and ask Wordpress for just one post from just this particular category.

Here we go:

 
<div id="dailyStyleQuote">
<div id="quoteText">
      <?php query_posts('category_name=Daily Style Quote&posts_per_page=1'); ?>
      <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
  			the_content('');
		?>
        </div>
<div id="quoteBottom">
			<?php the_time('l, F j, Y'); ?>
<?php
		$category_id = get_cat_ID( 'Daily Style Quote' );
    		$category_link = get_category_link( $category_id );
?>
            <a href="<?php echo $category_link; ?>">archive</a>
		</div>
 
        <?php endwhile; ?>
    </div>
 

Tags: PHP, wordpress, wordpress template

Page permalinks in Wordpress

Got myself puzzled for a bit while slicing a Wordpress theme this weekend on how to get a permalink to a certain page in Wordpress template, given that you know what's page title. Use this:

 
<?php echo get_permalink(get_page_by_title("Page title here")->ID); ?>
 

So now in your template you can use like this:

 
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(get_page_by_title("About")->ID); ?>">About</a>
 

Tags: PHP, wordpress, wordpress template

Zip a folder on the server with php

I have a spent a day today figuring how to zip a client's web site folder on a Godaddy shared Linux hosting today (they made sure users don't have SSH access on those) in order to transfer it to another server. Apparently, given the limitations of the account setup the best way was to write a php script by executing which i would zip the given folder contents, so that then i could copy just one file and unzip it on the target server.

And it can't be easier than that - if you have a folder, which contains a number of other folders and files in them the script below lets you add to the zip file quickly and easily:

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Tags: godaddy, PHP, zip