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[espy]

Hey Guys,

I would like to achieve multiple blog archive pages only pulling in specific categories on each page. As of now I only see “recent posts” available to pull in which has a maximum of four posts. Is there a way to achieve this using the theme or custimizing the theme?

I also need the post meta to pull in the author avatar & bio. Any ideas?

URL is http://betternetworkmarketinghabits.io/

-Currently posts are being displayed using a plugin which I would like to getaway from. I want to make recent posts display like the attached image.

[Jade]

Hi there,

Recent posts shortcode is limited to 4 posts only. But you could use it multiple times and by using offset.

[recent_posts count="4" orientation="horizontal"]
[recent_posts count="4" orientation="horizontal" offset="4"]

This will show 8 posts, from 1 to 4, then 5 to 8.

Hope this helps.

[espy]

Thanks! What file edits the recent posts output? Is there a post teaser archive template?

[Darshana]

Hi there,

You can extend the recent post functionality by using your child theme. Please check the following example (https://community.theme.co/forums/topic/adding-blog-text-and-read-more-link-to-recent-posts/#post-810125).

Hope that helps.

[espy]

Ok thanks, I’m trying to inject this code
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta(‘user_email’), $size = ’75’); ?>

In the ouput below but it seems to be having difficulty, I’m not familiar with the syntax on this portion- any advice?

$output .= ‘‘
. ‘<article id=”post-‘ . get_the_ID() . ‘” class=”‘ . implode( ‘ ‘, get_post_class() ) . ‘”>’
. ‘<div class=”entry-wrap”>’
. $image_output
. ‘<div class=”x-recent-posts-content”>’
. ‘<h3 class=”h-recent-posts”>’ . get_the_title() . ‘</h3>’
// . ‘<span class=”x-recent-posts-date”>’ . get_the_date() . ‘</span>’
. do_shortcode(‘[x_gap size=”10px”]’)
. ‘<span class=”x-recent-posts-excerpt”>’ . strip_tags(excerpt(6)) . ‘</span>’
. ‘</div>’
. ‘</div>’
.'<div class=”authorship-avatar”>’ . ‘<p> test p </p>’ .'</div>’
. ‘</article>’
. ‘‘;

[Rue Nel]

Hello There,

Thanks for the updates! To inject code, you must not use echo. Please have the code updated and use this instead:

$output .= ''
. '<article id="post-' . get_the_ID() . '" class="' . implode( ' ', get_post_class() ) . '">'
. '<div class="entry-wrap">'
. $image_output
. '<div class="x-recent-posts-content">'
. '<h3 class="h-recent-posts">' . get_the_title() . '</h3>'
// . '<span class="x-recent-posts-date">' . get_the_date() . '</span>'
. do_shortcode('[x_gap size="10px"]')
. '<span class="x-recent-posts-excerpt">' . strip_tags(excerpt(6)) . '</span>'
. '</div>'
. '</div>'
.'<div class="authorship-avatar">' . get_avatar( get_the_author_meta('user_email'), $size = '75') .'</div>'
. '</article>'
. '';

Please let us know if this works out for you.

[espy]

Thanks a lot! That did work… There are a couple more areas I need some assistance. This is the working code that I pull in on a single blog post. You got the avatar working, I’m having trouble injecting the category & author name, & date into the teaser as well.

<div class =”author-cmeta”>
<hr>
<div class=”authorship-avatar”>
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta(‘user_email’), $size = ’75’); ?>
<div class=”name-cat”>
<?php the_author(); ?>
<br>
<p> in </p>
<div id=’meta-cat’>
<?php $category = get_the_category(); $firstCategory = $category[0]->cat_name; echo $firstCategory;?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id=’the-date-mc’>
<?php echo get_the_date( ‘F d,Y’ ); ?>
<br>
<?php the_time( ‘g:ia’ ); ?>
</div>
<hr>
</div>

Thanks!

[Darshana]

Hi there,

Further customizations from here would be getting into custom development, which is outside the scope of support we can offer. If you need more in depth changes, you may wish to consult with a developer.

For example, you can check the following code on how to get the category and date (https://community.theme.co/forums/topic/recent-posts-can-i-display-date-category/#post-910374)

X is quite extensible with child themes, so there are plenty of possibilities.

Thanks for understanding.

[espy]

Ok no problem thanks!

[Prasant Rai]

Thanks for understanding. Feel free to ask us again. Have a great day! 🙂

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