Magic Fields plugin | Call featured Latest Events on sidebar WordPress

Lucian Florian comments:

We discovered this recently and I don't know when that happened. It happened after it reached a certain amount of posts I believe.

Sébastien | French WordpressDesigner comments:

what is the HTML outputed by your code ?

Sébastien | French WordpressDesigner comments:

OR could you give me the url of this page ?

Lucian Florian comments:

Here it is: http://pastebin.com/swD6pmZs

Sébastien | French WordpressDesigner comments:

replace your code by this code and tell me what is the output please

<?php
/**
* The Sidebar containing the primary and secondary widget areas.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Ten
* @since Twenty Ten 1.0
*/
function filtered($name){
$name = strtolower($name);
switch($name){
case "press":
return "IPSO Press release";
default:
return $name;
}
}
global $is_homepage;
$upcoming_event = array();
$upcoming_events = array();//create the array for the homepage events
?>

<div id="primary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">
<?php
/* When we call the dynamic_sidebar() function, it'll spit out
* the widgets for that widget area. If it instead returns false,
* then the sidebar simply doesn't exist, so we'll hard-code in
* some default sidebar stuff just in case.
*/
if ( $is_homepage) : ?>
<h1 class="new">What's New</h1>
<div id="slider1">
<ul id="announcements" class="widget-container">
<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=*'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<? // if (get('new_item') && (get('new_removal_date')>=date("m/d/Y") || !get('new_removal_date'))) { ?>
<li id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<h1 class="new-category"><?php echo filtered(get_panel_name()); ?></h1>
<h2 class="new-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyten' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php if ( get("new_custom_content")) : // Only display excerpts for archives and search. ?>
<div class="entry-summary">
<?php echo get("new_custom_content"); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
<?php else : ?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
<?php endif; ?>
</li><!-- #post-## -->
<? // } ?>

<? //PUT THE UPCOMING EVENTS INTO AN ARRAY FOR LATER
$event = get_group('Home: Upcoming Events Area');
if(count($event)) {
$e_info = array(get_the_ID(),
the_title('','',false),
get_the_excerpt(),
get('upcoming_item'),
get('upcoming_removal_date'),
get('upcoming_custom_content'));
array_push($upcoming_events,$e_info);
} ?>
</li><!-- #post-## -->

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
</div><!-- end slider1 -->
<?php else : ?>
<?php if($post->post_parent)
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0");
else
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0");
if ($children) { ?>
<ul class="submenu">
<?php echo $children; ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>
<?php endif;// end primary widget area ?>
</div><!-- #primary .widget-area -->
<div id="primary_footer"></div>
<?php if ( $is_homepage) : ?>
<div id="secondary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">
<ul>
<h1 class="upcoming">Upcoming Events</h1>
<?php
foreach($upcoming_events as $upcoming_event) {
if($upcoming_event[4]>=date("m/d/Y") || !$upcoming_event[4] && $upcoming_event[3]){
echo '<li><p class="title"><a href="?p='.$upcoming_event[0].'">'.$upcoming_event[1].'</a></p>';
if($upcoming_event[5]){
echo $upcoming_event[5];
}
echo '</li>';
}
}
?>
<!-- <li><p class="title">Embedded Systems Conference, Boston Sept. 20-23rd 2010</p> -->
<!-- <p> – Include a pop up box with the following info – IPSO’s Chairman Geoff Mulligan to speak Tuesday evening from 6pm -6:40 pm at the ESC theater on the benefits of IP sensors for connecting the Smart Grid</p> --><!-- </li> -->
</ul>
</div>


<div id="secondary_footer"></div>

<p class="button">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
// Copyright © 2005 Voormedia - WWW.VOORMEDIA.COM
var i,y,x="3c6120687265663d226d61696c746f3a696e666f406970736f2d616c6c69616e63652e6f72673f7375626a6563743d47656e6572616c253230496e666f726d6174696f6e223e4950534f20496e666f726d6174696f6e3c2f613e";y='';for(i=0;i<x.length;i+=2){y+=unescape('%'+x.substr(i,2));}document.write(y);
</script>
</p>

<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script><fb:like href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/IPSO-Alliance/281025795247310" send="true" width="280" show_faces="false" font=""></fb:like>

<div class="socials">
<h3 class="feature-category">FOLLOW IPSO</h3>
<ul class="clearfix">
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/IPSOAlliance" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo( 'template_directory' ); ?>/images/socials/fb-new2.png" alt="fb-new2" width="" height="" /></a></li>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo( 'url' ); ?>/feed" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo( 'template_directory' ); ?>/images/socials/rss-new.png" alt="rss-new" width="" height="" /></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/IPSOAlliance" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo( 'template_directory' ); ?>/images/socials/twitter-new2.png" alt="twitter-new2" width="" height="" /></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/ipso-alliance" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo( 'template_directory' ); ?>/images/socials/linkedin-new.png" alt="linkedin-new" width="" height="" /></a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<?php endif;// end secondary widget area ?>

Lucian Florian comments:

It now shows all the posts for What's New area
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Sébastien | French WordpressDesigner comments:

this is strange :
get('new_removal_date')>=date("m/d/Y")

i think you must explode and concanate dates to compare two dates.

something like that
$date = date("m/d/Y");
$date = explode("/", $date);
$date = $date[2].$date[0].$date[1];

get('new_removal_date') must have the same form $year.$mont.$day
and you can compare the dates

Sébastien | French WordpressDesigner comments:

"concatanate"
not "concanate"

Sébastien | French WordpressDesigner comments:

Now, what's the form of 'new_removal_date' ?
is it : year month day ?

Luis Abarca comments:

You should use global $query_string before use it too.


function filtered($name){
<strong>global $query_string;</strong>

$name = strtolower($name);
switch($name){
case "press":
return "IPSO Press release";
default:
return $name;
}
}
global $is_homepage;
//...


Lucian Florian comments:

I added that. Still no change

Luis Abarca comments:

I dont understand the use of * in this line, i think you can delete that &cat=*


<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=*'); ?>


Can you var dump the $post var in the loop and paste it the results ?

Lucian Florian comments:

I deleted that. Still does nothing. I agree code is advanced. Not sure if there is another way to write it.

Lucian Florian comments:

still does nothing

Lucian Florian comments:

As I mentioned is not the new version of Magic fields. It's the older one.