Description
This is a very useful way to display the titles of your drafts posts and pages – maybe as a “coming soon” teaser for
To display the list on your site you will need to insert the following code, where appropriate, into your theme…
<?php simple_draft_list('parameters'); ?>
Where parameters
is an optional list of parameters, each seperated by an ampersand (&)
These are as follows…
limit= : The maximum number of draft items to display. The default is 0, which is unlimited. A limit of just 1 will cause the <li>
tags not to be used, allowing you to embed the result in a sentence.
type= : This allows you to limit the results to either posts
or pages
. The default is both.
order= : This is the sequence that you’d like to order the results in. It consists of 2 codes – the first is either t
or d
to represent the title or date and the second is a
or d
for ascending or descending. Therefore order=td
will display the results in descending title sequence. The default is descending date.
The plugin will then display the list as an HTML list (i.e. with <li>
and </li>
around each entry).
An example would be…
<?php simple_draft_list('limit=5&type=posts&order=da'); ?>
This would display a list of up to 5 draft posts in ascending date sequence.
The following is an example of how it could be used in the sidebar, with a function_exists
check so that it doesn’t cause problems if the plugin is not active…
<?php if (function_exists('simple_draft_list')) : ?>
<h2>Coming Soon</h2>
<ul><?php simple_draft_list('limit=5&type=posts&order=da'); ?></ul>
<?php endif; ?>
If you wish to omit a page or post from the list then you can do this by simply giving the post/page a title beginning with an exlamation mark. You can then remove this before publishing the page/post.
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Installation
- Upload the entire
simple-draft-list
folder to your wp-content/plugins/ directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- There is no options screen – configuration is done in your code.
FAQ
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How can I get help or request possible changes
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Feel free to report any problems, or suggestions for enhancements, to me either via my contact form or by the plugins homepage at http://www.artiss.co.uk/simple-feed-list
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.0
- Initial release