John Davidson

Message:

I am editing the latest-blog.php file for WordPress and I have two goals.

1. I would like the post category to be displayed and have a class of category assigned to it.


2. I would like to assign a class to the thumbnail, the title and the excerpt so I can style them.

The code below is where I believe the changes need to made

foreach ( $recent_posts as $post ) {

    $post_id = $post['ID'];



    $title = get_the_title( $post_id );

    if ( ! $title ) {

        $title = __( '(Untitled)' );

    }

    

    $post_url = get_permalink( $post_id );

    

    $text = get_post( $post_id );

    $text = $text->post_content;

    $text = wp_trim_words( $text, 25, '... <a class="subtitle-red"  style="display:block;" href="'.$post_url.'">read&nbsp;full&nbsp;article</a>' );

    $excerpt = $text;

            

    $list_items_markup .= sprintf(

        '<li>

        <a href="%2$s">%1$s%3$s</a><p>%4$s</p>',

        get_the_post_thumbnail( $post_id ),

        esc_url( get_permalink( $post_id ) ),

        esc_html( $title ), 

        $excerpt

    );

            

    if ( isset( $attributes['displayPostDate'] ) && $attributes['displayPostDate'] ) {

        $list_items_markup .= sprintf(

            '<time datetime="%1$s" class="wp-block-latest-posts__post-date">%2$s</time>',

            esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c', $post_id ) ),

            esc_html( get_the_date( '', $post_id ) )

        );

    }

    $list_items_markup .= "</li>\n";

}

As this is a core WP file editing it really isn't the best idea so an extra question... could this be done via functions.php instead?

Thanks

TJ

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My Answer:
>post_content;_ _ $thumbnail = get_the_post_thumbnail( $post_id, 'thumbnail' );_ _ $output .= '';_}_echo $output;