Comments on: WordPress List Posts with Custom Field Plugin

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:14:34 +0000

Hi John,
I may include another attribute category that would allow you to use those posts only that are part of the given category. This would do the trick for you, I think.
Update: version 1.8 of the plugin contains this feature.

By: John Hayles

John Hayles — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:10:30 +0000

Hello,

Is it possible to combine this plugin with a WP category shortcode?

If I have a number of posts about different airlines in the category ‘airlines’, with a custom field holding the airline name. To write a post that includes a list of these articles I need to combine the shortcode for list-posts and a shortcode for the category.
John

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:05:44 +0000

Very nice, simple plugin.

2 questions:

1. In many posts, I have the same custom field key with different values. Your plugin seems to recognize this, but only lists the value in the first instance of the key. Is there a way to solve this?

2. I think that this has been mentioned before, but is it possible to sort by the value of the custom field?

Thanks,

Adam

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:09:15 +0000

Hi masterleep,
thank you for the feedback. I’m looking forward to fix the plugin.

By: masterleep

masterleep — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:23:12 +0000

FYI, I was able to patch it for my purposes by commenting out the following section in the plugin:

# set correct title/excerpt
#for ($i = 0, $n = count($result); $i title = lpcf_get_custom_field($post->ID, $titlefields, $post->title);
# $result[$i]->excerpt = lpcf_get_custom_field($post->ID, $excerptfields, $post->excerpt);
#}

By: masterleep

masterleep — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:08:15 +0000

I’ve been using the plugin with a placement like this:

[list-posts field=xyz having=xyz,none]

When I upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1 from 2.8.x, the page changed to a list of “Array” strings. Instead of the post title, the string “Array” would be there.

By: @nomadone

@nomadone — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:43:14 +0000

Wow this sounds great. I’ve been battling to print a set of posts, with a specific custom field value, but need to post them inside of another post. Is there any way of using this plugin with a template tag instead of shortcode though?

I’ve just tried using the plugin and it basically adds all custom fields from the specific field not just the ones with the value I specified.

By: Richard Bui

Richard Bui — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:06:22 +0000

@Christian: you are amazing! I sent you an email, BTW. Thanks!

By: Christian Schenk

Christian Schenk — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:30:11 +0000

Hi Richard,
I’ve added another attribute: use e.g. limit=5 to do just that.

By: Richard Bui

Richard Bui — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:06:12 +0000

Excellent plugin! One question I had is: would there be a way to limit the amount of results displayed? For example, the first 5?

Thanks!