# EzSticky

Last version is 0.2 released on 21 November 2006

EzSticky is a simple wordpress plugin that can show post’s excerpt of specified category.
Category tagged as “sticky” is default, i suggest to create it.

Installation: Copy the above code, put it in your /wp-content/plugins/ directory and activate through the administration panel.

Usage: put the function anywhere in the template and add these lines to your css ( if you like it … )

Example: For an example of EzSticky in action, see my blog’s homepage

Alternative: Some clever people have written other plugins that do similar things:

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Changelog:

  • v0.2
  • add sticky_cat param for change category filter selection
  • add $wpdb before table name
  • add some comments
  • v0.1
  • Initial release

Any suggestion are welcome.

  1. <?php
  2. /*
  3. Plugin Name: EzSticky
  4. Plugin URI: http://maurizio.mavida.com/ezsticky
  5. Description:  Show post_excerpt of specified categoty, sticky is default. Usage: put the function ezsticky() anywhere in the template.
  7. Version: 0.2
  8. Author: maurizio
  9. Author URI: http://maurizio.mavida.com
  11. */
  12.  
  13. /*
  14. License: GPL
  16. Installation:
  17. Place the ezsticky.php file in your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  18. and activate through the administration panel.
  19. */
  20.  
  21. /* 
  23. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  24. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  25. the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  26. (at your option) any later version.
  28. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  29. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  30. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  31. GNU General Public License for more details.
  33. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  34. along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  35. Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
  36. */
  37.  
  38.  
  39. /* Changelog
  40. * 2006-11-21 - v0.2
  41. - add sticky_cat param for change category filter selection
  42. - add $wpdb before table name
  43. - add some comments
  44. * 2006-11-20 - v0.1
  45. - Initial release
  46. */
  47.  
  48. function ezsticky ($sticky_cat = 'sticky', $before_title = '<h3>', $after_title = '</h3>', $before_post = '<div>', $after_post = '</div>' ) {
  49.  
  50.     global $wpdb, $tableposts;
  51.  
  52.     $sql = '';
  53.     $sql .= "SELECT ID, post_title, post_content, post_excerpt, category_id, cat_name ";
  54.     $sql .= "FROM $wpdb->posts ";
  55.     $sql .= "INNER JOIN $wpdb->post2cat ON $wpdb->posts.id = $wpdb->post2cat.post_id ";
  56.     $sql .= "INNER JOIN $wpdb->categories ON $wpdb->post2cat.category_id = $wpdb->categories.cat_id ";
  57.     $sql .= "WHERE post_status = 'publish' and cat_name = '$sticky_cat' ";
  58.     $sql .= "ORDER BY post_date ";
  59.    
  60.     $posts = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
  61.         $output = '';
  62.     foreach ($posts as $post) {
  63.         $post_title = stripslashes($post->post_title);
  64.         $post_title = str_replace('"', '', $post_title);
  65.         //$post_title = substr($post_title, 0, 25);
  66.         $permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
  67.                 $post_content = strip_tags($post->post_content);
  68.                 $post_content = stripslashes($post_content);
  69.        
  70.         $post_excerpt = stripslashes($post->post_excerpt);
  71.        
  72.        
  73.         $output .= '<div class="ezsticky">';
  74.         $output .= $before_title;
  75.         $output .= '<a href="' . $permalink . '" rel="bookmark" title="' . $post_title . '">' . $post_title . '</a>';
  76.         $output .= $after_title;
  77.  
  78.         $output .= $before_post;
  79.         $output .= $post_excerpt ;
  80.                 $output .= ' ( <a href="' . $permalink . '" rel="bookmark" title="' . $post_title . '">Continua ...</a> )';
  81.         $output .= $after_post;
  82.         $output .= '</div>';
  83.         }
  84.    
  85.         echo $output;
  86. }
  87. ?>

  1. .ezsticky {
  2.     width: 490px;
  3.         color: #060;
  4.         background-color: #EDF3F3;
  5.         text-align: left;
  6.         border: 1px dotted #A4B5BD;
  7.         font-size: 12px;
  8.         padding: 5px;
  9.         font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  10.     margin: 0px;
  11.     margin-bottom: 10px;
  12. }       
  13.  
  14. .ezsticky h3 { margin: 5px 0px; }     
  15. .ezsticky h3 a { color: #697C82; }     
  16. .ezsticky div { margin-left: 10px; }


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