UPDATE:
I have this widget that allows me to CHOOSE and SHOW the latest posts from a specific category in the sidebar. Here's the code;
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'tie_categort_posts_widget' );function tie_categort_posts_widget() { register_widget( 'tie_categort_posts' );}class tie_categort_posts extends WP_Widget { function tie_categort_posts() { $widget_ops = array( 'classname' => 'categort-posts' ); $control_ops = array( 'width' => 250, 'height' => 350, 'id_base' => 'categort-posts-widget' ); $this->WP_Widget( 'categort-posts-widget',theme_name .' - Category Posts', $widget_ops, $control_ops ); } function widget( $args, $instance ) { extract( $args ); $title = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title'] ); $no_of_posts = $instance['no_of_posts']; $cats_id = $instance['cats_id']; $thumb = $instance['thumb']; echo $before_widget; echo $before_title; echo $title ; ?><?php echo $after_title; ?><ul><?php tie_last_posts_cat($no_of_posts , $thumb , $cats_id)?> </ul><div class="clear"></div><?php echo $after_widget; } function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) { $instance = $old_instance; $instance['title'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['title'] ); $instance['no_of_posts'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['no_of_posts'] ); $instance['cats_id'] = implode(',' , $new_instance['cats_id'] ); $instance['thumb'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['thumb'] ); return $instance; } function form( $instance ) { $defaults = array( 'title' =>__( 'Category Posts' , 'tie'), 'no_of_posts' => '5' , 'cats_id' => '1' , 'thumb' => 'true' ); $instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, $defaults ); $categories_obj = get_categories(); $categories = array(); foreach ($categories_obj as $pn_cat) { $categories[$pn_cat->cat_ID] = $pn_cat->cat_name; } ?><p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title' ); ?>">Title : </label><input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'title' ); ?>" value="<?php echo $instance['title']; ?>" class="widefat" type="text" /></p><p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'no_of_posts' ); ?>">Number of posts to show: </label><input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'no_of_posts' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'no_of_posts' ); ?>" value="<?php echo $instance['no_of_posts']; ?>" type="text" size="3" /></p><p><?php $cats_id = explode ( ',' , $instance['cats_id'] ) ; ?><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'cats_id' ); ?>">Category : </label><select multiple="multiple" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'cats_id' ); ?>[]" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'cats_id' ); ?>[]"><?php foreach ($categories as $key => $option) { ?><option value="<?php echo $key ?>"<?php if ( in_array( $key , $cats_id ) ) { echo ' selected="selected"' ; } ?>><?php echo $option; ?></option><?php } ?></select></p><p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'thumb' ); ?>">Display Thumbinals : </label><input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'thumb' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'thumb' ); ?>" value="true"<?php if( $instance['thumb'] ) echo 'checked="checked"'; ?> type="checkbox" /></p><?php }}Any suggestions on what to edit so that I will be able to "CHOOSE and SHOW random posts from a specific TAG" instead of the latest posts from a category?
UPDATE:
Here is the accompanying code, found inside functions.php, which is used by the widget above:
function tie_last_posts_cat($numberOfPosts = 5 , $thumb = true , $cats = 1){global $post;$orig_post = $post;$lastPosts = get_posts('category='.$cats.'&no_found_rows=1&suppress_filters=0&numberposts='.$numberOfPosts);foreach($lastPosts as $post): setup_postdata($post);Basically, here is what I'm trying to achieve:
I was able to turn it to a TAGS widget but I can't seem to figure out how to get the tags to show on the list. Again, help is deeply appreciated.
