Title: Get Post Author: jtatum Published: November 25, 2008 Last modified: June 6, 2011 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/get-post.svg) # Get Post By [jtatum](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jtatum/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/get-post.2.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-post/#description) * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-post/#reviews) * [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-post/#installation) * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-post/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/get-post/) ## Description Get Post adds a tag that allows you to retrieve and display the latest post identified by a specific set of parameters. When this plugin is active, any post or page can contain the get-post markup as follows: ``` [get-post tag=some-tag] ``` This will be replaced with the latest post tagged with the given tag. #### Parameters The parameters control which posts are retrieved by get-post. Options can be used in combination to build a list of criteria for post or posts to retrieve. By mixing criteria, you can exert a lot of control over the post(s) which are found by the plugin. ``` [get-post tag=some-tag random show=3] ``` One note on WordPress in general: if you specify criteria that WordPress can’t match, it will make something up. For instance, if you specify a tag or category that doesn’t exist, it will simply retrieve the latest post with no indication that anything is wrong. Take care to ensure that the options you specify are what you intend. Several of these parameters work best when specifying the slugs. For instance, when specifying a tag it’s best to use the slug value rather than the full name of the tag. To find the slug, see the admin panel -> posts -> post tags. The slug is listed right on that page. You may wish to specify an option value with a space in it. This is accomplished with quotes: ``` [get-post option="a value with spaces"] ``` * tag: Specify a tag to search for. The tag’s slug should be specified. * ``` [get-post tag=some-tag] ``` * category: Specify a category to search for. The category’s slug should be specified. * ``` [get-post category=some-category] ``` * show: Specify the number of posts to show. * ``` [get-post show=5] ``` * template: Specify the template to use. This specification overrides the template set in the options panel of the admin interface. See the template section for more details on template tags. **NOTE:** If entering any HTML into this, please be sure to select the HTML editor rather than the visual editor. * ``` [get-post template="

Title: {title}

"] ``` * random: Select a random post from the matching criteria * ``` [get-post random] ``` * _default_: This isn’t really an option. _By default_, get-post displays the latest blog post. * ``` [get-post] ``` #### Templates Get-post ships with a default template that should render the usual post details in a form that fits well with most themes. You can customize this template to add or remove data from the included post. Additionally, you can use the `template` parameter to the `[get-post]` tag to specify a one-off template. Using the `show` parameter will retrieve multiple posts. In this case, the template will be repeated one time for each retrieved post. These tags are replaced with the value from the retrieved post. For instance, a template containing `{title}` will actually have the title of the retrieved post, rather than the word `title`. * {title}: The title of the post. * {content}: The content of the post. * {author}: The author of the post. * {date}: The date the post was written. * {time}: The time the post was written. * {permalink}: A link to the post itself. * {authorlink}: A link to all posts by the post’s author. * {id}: The post’s ID number. #### Examples Indicate when your blog was last updated: ``` Blog last updated [get-post template="{date} at {time}."] ``` Link to the latest post: ``` Check out my post: [get-post template="{title}"] ``` #### How it works This plugin does something a little bit unorthodox: It reenters [“The Loop” while the post content is being rendered. Then, it calls whatever WordPress internal functions will safely work, using raw data from $post when these functions are unsafe to call again. People curious about the internals should examine `class-get-post- getter.php`. The class is structured to be reusable by any other GPL2 projects. ## Screenshots * [[ * Example page showing get-post invoked three times – once to display some dates, once to show a link, and once with the default template. ## Installation 1. Upload `get-post.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Use the [get-post] markup in a post or page ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Get Post” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ jtatum ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jtatum/) [Translate “Get Post” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/get-post) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/get-post/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/get-post/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/get-post/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/get-post/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.0.0 5-Jun-2011 * Rewrite of internals. The option parser is a lot more powerful. The new design makes adding new options simpler. * Plugins that affect post content should be correctly rendered now. * To a very limited extent, you can use get-post recursively. (If you do, please email me a link or let me know what you’re doing with this.) * Adding several optional parameters to the parser tag – category, tag, random, show. * Switching to a template system rather than hard-coding the HTML for the post display. * Display errors when unknown parameters are specified. * Using the template option, users can output individual elements from posts * Plugin settings are now available in the admin panel. You can edit the template used for the tag to make it match your theme here. * Plugin can be uninstalled. #### 1.0.2 13-Jun-2009 * Did not update the version number properly in 1.0.1. Oops. #### 1.0.1 13-Jun-2009 * Fixed issue where comments and other post data bled over into the “getter” from the “gotten” post. #### 1.0.0 25-Nov-2008 * Initial release ## Meta * Version **2.0.0** * Last updated **15 years ago** * Active installations **100+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.1.4** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/get-post/) * Tags * [display](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/display/)[latest](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/latest/) [page](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/page/)[post](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/) [retrieve](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/retrieve/) * [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/get-post/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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