Classic Posts

I have been wanting to implement a “greatest hits” section in my sidebar ever since I read the lessons for would-be bloggers. Yesterday I discovered the classic posts plugin from Chris vs Chris which displays posts which you have designated as “classic.” That sounded like the kind of thing I wanted, except that I was looking for a sidebar list. I added a function to their plugin which returns a list of posts rather than the posts themselves. I also discovered that their plugin does not successfully handle selecting and deselecting posts as being “classic” if you are on anything except the default list of posts – in other words it only works on the last 15 posts. (I went into the database so that I cold manually select some older posts)

I have no particular desire to own this plugin so if Chris and Chris want to adopt my modification into their official plugin they are welcome to it. If they do I will link to their version of the file, but until then here is my version: Classic Posts plugin with List Option.

UPDATE: I found the error on the plugin (I had to add two characters to the code) and I have the working version up now (same link as before).

UPDATE 2: Chris has added my modification and the bug fix so I will include a link to the official version.

17 Comments

  2. Thanks, I hope you can find the problem because I don’t understand that part of your code well enough yet to find it. (And I have not touched any of that functionality so I doubt I messed it up.)

  10. Hmmm. This is the error I get when activating the plugin:

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘SHOW_COLUMNS FROM wp_posts LIKE ‘classic” at line 1]
    SHOW_COLUMNS FROM wp_posts LIKE ‘classic’

    WordPress database error: [Duplicate column name ‘classic’]
    ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD classic VARCHAR(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘n’

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/journeyg/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php:121) in /home/journeyg/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275

  11. I have had that type of problem with this plugin as well as others (I think anytime they alter a table). I can’t say exactly what’s happening, but my experience in all such cases is that if I go back to the plugin manager and select “Activate” again it works just fine.

  12. […] 我们知道，WordPress的日志是按时间排序的，新的文章总在旧的文章之上。而当日志的文章多了，而你又想把一些自己认为值得访客浏览和注意的文章放在最顶部，就象在论坛内看到的置顶帖子一样。你可以选择使用Classic Posts这个插件。 […]

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