Settings for April's Call Posts

You can choose the default settings for the shortcode here. These settings apply to every instance of the shortcode on the site, old or new, unless the instance itself overrides this setting.

Title Style	This is the HTML tag used for post titles in the shortcode. You can override this default setting in any individual use of the shortcode by including the option `title`.
Content Style	This controls whether and how each post's content is displayed. You can override this default setting in any individual use of the shortcode by including the option `content_style`.
Date Format	If you enter a date format here, it will be used to insert the post date for all posts on the site. You can override this default setting in any individual use of the shortcode by including the option `dateformat` and setting it to a different format or to empty. A nice default is `F j`. See PHP.net's Date Formatting Instructions for more.
Order By...	Usually, you want it to be by the date of the post, but you can choose to make it random. You can override this default setting in any individual use of the shortcode by including the option `orderby`.
Styling	<?php echo htmlspecialchars(get_option('ahscp_css')); ?> When you first install this plugin, this box will have the default css that I put in, mostly to style the 2-column and sidebox options. You can edit this css easily here.
Custom Field	The shortcode automatically orders posts by most-recent-first. If you'd like them to be ordered by a custom field, enter the name of the custom field here. You can override this default setting in any individual use of the shortcode by including the option `custom_field`.

Shortcode Options

These are the parameters you can set in the shortcode:

`category`	No default. Required. Enter the slug of the category you'd like to use. Separate multiple category slugs with commas.
`custom_field`	Default is the option set above, if not empty. Otherwise, ignored.
`title`	Default = `h3`. Can be any HTML tag name (b, i, u, h4, etc)
`dateformat`	Default is to not show the date. If you enter a dateformat for an instance of the shortcode (or above as a default for the whole site), the date will be shown preceding the title (if `content_type` is not `title`). Formatting tips.
`numberposts`	Default = `1`. This is the number of posts that are called in. To have no limit, use `-1`.
`class`	Default = `post`. You can choose another class, for example, one controlled in your own theme's stylesheet, instead.
`orderby`	Default = option set above. To override, use `post_date` or `random` in the shortcode.
`sidebox`	Empty and ignored by default. If set to `true`, puts the posts in a box floating at the right side of the page.
`sideboxsize`	Empty and ignored by default. Only used if sidebox is set to true. Then, default = `small` which translates to a width of 210px. Other options are: `medium` (300px), `large` (350px), `xlarge` (425px). Height of the sidebox is determined by the length of the content.
`content_style`	Default = option set above. To override the default, set to one of these other options in the shortcode: `excerpt`, `title`.
`separator`	Default is a comma (`,`). Only used if `content_style` is set to `title`. Any text you enter for this will be placed after each linked title. Special case: If you use `<list>`, the linked post titles will actually be enclosed in a UL and LIs.
`cols`	Default = `1`. Only other option is `2`.
`col_item_width`	Empty and ignored by default. Only used if cols is set to `2`. Then the default = 320, which is a pixel measurement.
`col_item_height`	Empty and ignored by default. Only used if cols is set to `2`. Then the default = 260, which is a pixel measurement.
`showthumb`	Empty and ignored by default. If set to true, then the post's featured image is displayed before the post (You choose the featured image at the bottom right on the Edit Post page). The image has the class `attachment-thumbnail`, so you can style it.
`thumbsize`	If you set `showthumb` to true, you can also set the size. The default is `medium`. Other options include `thumbnail` or `large`. If you provide two numbers separated by a comma, those two numbers will be used as the width and height.
`order`	Default is `ASC`. Only other option is `DESC`. Used only when `custom_field` option is in use.
`continue_text`	What text would you like people to see that they click on to read the rest of the post? This applies to both `full` and `excerpt` modes. Default is `Read more »`. Note: If you're using a theme that customizes the excerpt more link, this may interfere. You may want to set this to blank (`""`)
`pre_continue_text`	If, when in `excerpt` mode, you'd like to prepend, say, an ellipsis (`...`) to your text before the `continue_text`, you can set it with this.
`linktitle`	Default = `true`. If you don't want the post titles to be links (in `excerpt` or `full` mode), set this to `false`

Shortcode Examples

prefix."term_taxonomy tt, ".$wpdb->prefix."terms t WHERE tt.taxonomy LIKE 'category' AND tt.term_id=t.term_id AND tt.term_id=1 ORDER BY t.slug"; $result = $wpdb->get_results($sql); foreach ($result as $i) $slugexample = $i->slug; ?>

If you want to call the 5 most recent posts in the category into a page, place this shortcode on the page:

[ahs_callposts category="" numberposts="5"]

If you want to call all posts in the category into a page but only list linkable titles with hard returns between them, place this shortcode on the page:

[ahs_callposts category="" numberposts="-1" content_style="title" separator="<br />"]

If you want to call the 6 most recent posts in the category into a page in two columns 220px wide with a thumbnail image:

[ahs_callposts category="" numberposts="6" cols="2" showthumb="true" col_item_width="220"]