Customizing recent posts

[wmmajaliwa]

Hello X,

How would I go about customizing the recent posts to include my custom post types?

I have tried inserting this code in my functions.php

$args = array(
	'numberposts' => 10,
	'offset' => 0,
	'category' => 0,
	'orderby' => 'post_date',
	'order' => 'DESC',
	'include' => '',
	'exclude' => '',
	'meta_key' => '',
	'meta_value' =>'',
	'post_type'  => array('post','in_my_opinion','did_you_know'),
	'post_status'  => 'publish',
	'suppress_filters' => true
);

$recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args, ARRAY_A );

[jade]

Hi Wilfried,

Please follow the instructions in this thread:

Adding Custom Post Types to Recent Posts Shortcode

Hope this helps.

[wmmajaliwa]

I think I’ve got it. I need to use the recent posts shortcode.

Let me try that

[nabeel]

Hey Wilfried,

Yes that’s correct, let us know how this goes.

Cheers!

[wmmajaliwa]

It’s not going great.

The drag and drop is not working in cornerstone

[wmmajaliwa]

Forgot to add section
Sorry, it’s been a while

Now I need your help guys
I am only fetching a max of 4 posts out of like 16 and none of them is one of my custom post types.

How do i deal with this?

Got it. I added this code
// Add post type to recent post element
function add_event_post_type( $types ) {
$types[‘in_my_opinion’] = ‘in_my_opinion’;
$types[‘did_you_know’] = ‘did_you_know’;
return $types;
}
add_filter( ‘cs_recent_posts_post_types’, ‘add_event_post_type’, 999 );

Works but It is not what I want for this particular page. I want all recent posts from all the types fetched at once and paginated.

Can I do that?

[thai]

Hi @wmmajaliwa,

You can try with the offset attribute of recent posts shortcode:

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

http://demo.theme.co/integrity-1/shortcodes/recent-posts/

Hope it helps

[wmmajaliwa]

Hi, Thai

I don’t see how to edit the shortcode the way you have typed it

This is what I see and it’s not working as i think it should

[jade]

Hi Wilfried,

For shortcodes, you will have to type in the actual shortcode and add to either a Raw Content or a Text element and not the actual Recent Post element.

Hope this helps.

[wmmajaliwa]

Ah, excellent. Thank you, Jade

[thai]

You’re welcome.