Thanks for the excellent plugin. While validating the HTML on my site, I noticed that the plug-in was giving rise to two valdiating issues. I managed to correct them but I thought that you might like to know so you could possibly correct this in the next version of the plugin.

The first issue relates to the incorrect closing of some tags outside the IF statement checking if “more_text” is empty. The original code is:

if (!empty($instance['more_text'])) { ?><p class="alignright"><small><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $instance['more_text']; } ?></a></small></p>

I replaced it with the following code:

if (!empty($instance['more_text'])) { ?><p class="alignright"><small><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $instance['more_text']; ?></a></small></p> <?php } ?>

Also, you have forgotten to close the tag at the end of the post loop for the widget. I rectified this by closing the tag right before the endwhile statement:

} ?>
</li> <?php
endwhile;

I hope this helps. It doesn’t actually break the plugin, but it might bring up some quirks on older browsers. Thanks for the plugin!

Cheers

I wrote it in a few minutes then I recommend making a backup of the page before editing.

FIRST STEP
Search text:
echo $before_widget;

and just below write:
if ($instance ['cat']> 0)
$category_link .= get_category_link ($instance ['cat']);
else $category_link = get_permalink (get_option (‘home’));

SECOND STEP:
Search text
else $link = get_permalink (get_option (‘home’));

and replace it with
else $link =”.category_link;

Currently it is sticking at 55, want to bring it down to about 15

Thanks dudes

Wallace, there’s no good way to use a widget without the rest of the WP structure in place. I think you’d be better off looking for an RSS parser — SimplePie, if you want PHP, or you could find a javascript-based one — and using the site’s feed instead of the widget.

Ben, thanks for catching that. I’ll fix it in the next version.

DM, there is no fast and easy way to do that. I’ll play around with it and see if I can work it into a future release.

Theodore, no, not right now.

I have one question, though.

I am building a website (html and CSS, not a wordpress site), and I have a need to show off “featured posts” on the website.

I’m not sure how to pull just the data from your widget and place it in a div on my site, and I’ve been searching, and looking through code to no avail.

Do you know of any simple ways of doing this? My PHP isn’t very good, and I’m in a bind to get this working as soon as possible.