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[Custom Function] Get Posts by Author ID

Banhawi — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:13:19 +0000

If you are trying to get posts for a certain author/user , unfortunately there is no function offered by wordpress to do this so i wrote this function to help you do this

function get_posts_by_author($id,$num) {
	global $wpdb;
	$posts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * from $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish' AND post_author = $id LIMIT 0,$num", ARRAY_A);
	return $posts;
}

this function takes two parameters
$id which is author id
$num which is number of posts you want to query

and it returns your posts in an array , so for example if you want to get the title of the first returned post you have to write this

$posts[0]['post_title']

Support WP3.0 Custom Menus

Banhawi — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:42:24 +0000

The new wordpress 3.0 custom menus feature is one of the best newly added features to wordpress that gives you more control on your menus every where on your web site .
Wordpress new custom menus works in simple two steps .

First : Register the menu

register_nav_menus( array( $location => $description ) );

Real Example

if ( function_exists( 'register_nav_menu' ) ) {
register_nav_menu( 'topnav', 'Top Navigation' );
}

you can register as many custom menus as you want .

Second : Place the menu

Now it’s time to place your menus where you want it to be showed on your theme

That’s it , now just play with your wordpress menu designer and have fun

Functions Used : register_nav_menus & wp_nav_menu

WordPress 3.0 is Awesome

Banhawi — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:51:58 +0000

[Custom Function] Get Category Link by Name

Banhawi — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:30:34 +0000

I was working on a theme and i faced that problem , i wanted to get dynamically the category link using category names and there’s no function in wordpress to do that , so i’ve wrote a simple function that does what i need .
I’ve used get_cat_ID function to get category id using name , then get_category_link function to get category link using category id , very simple .

function get_category_link_byname($name) {
	$id = get_cat_ID($name);
	$link = get_category_link( $id );
	echo $link;
}

use this function as follows ,

and that’s it , hope you find it useful .

Banhawi’s WordPress IDs , Classes & Tags Reference

Banhawi — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:33:54 +0000

Through my work i always look for a reference containing all the classes i may use within my wordpress work , so i’ve created that reference for myself and sharing it with you , hoping you find it helpful .

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