WordPress Add Shortcode Advanced shortcode for recent posts
Example
This functions takes parameter for how many recent posts you want to display.
Ex : you want to display only five recent posts. Just passed the arguments with posts="5" (you can pass any number of recent posts that you want to display).
Function fetch only five recent posts from database.
// recent-posts is going to be our shortcode.
add_shortcode('recent-posts', 'recent_posts_function');
// Functions takes parameter such as posts="5".
function recent_posts_function($atts){
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
'posts' => 1,
), $atts));
$return_string = '<ul>';
query_posts(array('orderby' => 'date', 'order' => 'DESC' , 'showposts' => $posts));
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
$return_string .= '<li><a href="'.get_permalink().'">'.get_the_title().'</a></li>';
endwhile;
endif;
$return_string .= '</ul>';
wp_reset_query();
return $return_string;
}
Eg. echo do_shortcode( '[recent-posts posts="5"]' );
