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WordPress: loop shortcode for pages
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// -------------------------------------------------- | |
// ---------- Create custom loop shortcode ---------- | |
// -------------------------------------------------- | |
// usage: [loop cat="17" posts_per_page="6" ] | |
// -------------------------------------------------- | |
<?php | |
add_shortcode('loop', 'shortcode_query'); | |
function shortcode_query($atts, $content){ | |
extract(shortcode_atts(array( // a few default values. more query params at http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query | |
'posts_per_page' => 4, | |
'caller_get_posts' => 1, | |
'post__not_in' => get_option('sticky_posts'), | |
), $atts)); | |
global $post; | |
$posts = new WP_Query($atts); | |
$output = ''; | |
if ($posts->have_posts()) | |
while ($posts->have_posts()): | |
$posts->the_post(); | |
?> | |
<article <?php post_class() ?>> | |
<footer class="entry-meta"> | |
<time datetime="<?php echo date(DATE_W3C); ?>" pubdate class="updated"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></time> | |
<small>in <?php the_category(', ') ?></small> | |
</footer> | |
<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?> | |
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" class="" > | |
<?php echo clean_img_width_height(get_the_post_thumbnail(get_the_ID())); ?> | |
</a> | |
<?php endif; ?> | |
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> | |
<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p> | |
</article> | |
<?php | |
endwhile; | |
else | |
return; // no posts found | |
wp_reset_query(); | |
return html_entity_decode($output); | |
} | |
?> |
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