Designrfix
This solution was updated for WordPress 3.0+
Starting with WordPress 2.9 is no longer need to use custom fields and hacks to have thumbnails in your blog articles or even on widgets area, sidebars, footers etc. For instance, to make a thumbnails area for random latest 12 recent posts, use the following code:
[code='php']
$my_query = new WP_Query('showposts=12&orderby=rand');
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
?>
$attachments = get_posts( array(
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'number_posts' => 1,
'post_status' => null,
'post_parent' => $my_query->post->ID,
) );
if ($attachments) {
?>
$thumbnail_id = $attachments[0]->ID;
echo wp_get_attachment_image( $thumbnail_id );
}
endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();
?>
[/code]
You need to keep in mind the thumbnails will have the sizes from your function.php call action settings, and that will not look ok in your sidebar. You can use a CSS style to make them to look how you wish. Example:
[code='css']
.attachment-thumbnail {
height:50px;
width:50px;
padding:5px;
background:#fff;
margin:5px 5px 0 0;
}
[/code]
How to displaying recent posts as thumbnails in sidebar in WordPress 2.9
uberVU - social comments
[Miguel Sá] | Blog >> How to Displaying Recent Posts as Thumbnails in Sidebar in WordPress 2.9
uberVU - social comments
thanks for the valuable tips.
I’m a newbie in wordpress ^^!
much appreciated
Much thanks for the article, and great site. This is something similar to what I am looking for, but not exactly. Do you have any advice on how I can accomplish something like this with the archives and categories?
I am looking to do something like they have on this blog here…
http://www.astrostudios.com/blog
Thanks in advance!
wp-popular.com » Blog Archive » How to display recent posts as thumbnails in sidebar in WordPress 2.9 | reADactor
Bookmarked your blog. Thank you for sharing. Definitely worth the time away from my coursework.
Thanks I think your explaination is the best, thanks for sharing…
Is there any plugin/Widget that do the same thing?
(this piece of code is great, but I prfer a widget rather than messing with the code…)
Hi,
you can take a look at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yd-recent-posts-widget/
Can you share with us which plugins you used form the sidebar recent posts (“popular” and “comments”)?
is a custom solution, not a widget.
regards
Sorry dude,but ths piece of code gives error,parse syntax error.
It means it doesn’t works with wordpress v3.0.5
Jogan says it’s not working in 3.0.5. Do you think you could update this for wordpress 3.1? I’m not good with php or I would do it. It might be a good idea to put it into a plugin while you are at it? Unless you don’t feel like supporting it with every WP update which I would totally understand.
Best, Corey
Hey I’m actually searching for methods on how to go along with this. Now I will be able to finish my wordpress account.
3.0.5 update would be helpful for me too. Tried fixing the syntax error but now thumbnails are coming up blank.
Its not at all working for me.
Was this fix ever implemented Olive?
Hi,
Thanks for the post. To be honest I am really like your related post as what you have done with it. I will really appreciate it if you will share to me how you do it?
Thanks in advance
is there any ready plugin to do this?
I started using WordPress and ran into a few problems with the back end coding. I had to add more code to even get it to work. I’m not use to stuff like that but it was pretty interesting.
Nice Post,
James
Hi,
what about if I want to get the post image from an existing custom field named “Thumbnail”
?
Thanks
Thank tips very helpful
Worked great for a client project I’m working on! Had to tweak a few things, and got it to display the title as a link to each post.
Thanks so much!
PS: You might want to edit the instructions and add that the code goes in the sidebar, above dynamic code (if that’s where you want it to go).
Nice one. I was wondering if I could use this trick to display recent posts with thumbnails on my homepage, like theplrstore.com {you can delete that domain if u like; I don’t own it, it was just for example purposes only]?
How can I show the last 4 posts from oldest to newest? I tried ordering them with “order=ASC” but it’s showing the first 4 blog posts, also tried using array_reverse but it didn’t work either. Help!
Hi, I am trying to add the post title underneath the thumbnail. I can add the title but then I can’t get the thumbnails to stay in a grid format. I would be very grateful if someone could please let me know how to do this. My thumbnail size is 150 x 150 so they are big enough to have the title underneath.
Thank you.