Hello everyone. I have what I think might be a basic PHP question. I recently purchased a Wordpress theme. the designer is pretty adamant about what he will add and what not. One feature I love is the News Ticker. But it only showcases either new posts or random posts. I wrote him asking if it was possible to show posts by category. He said yes, if I could code. He said:
You can modify the query of breaking news in this function vw_get_breaking_news_posts of this file ’\themes\sprout\inc\breaking-news.php’.
This is a copy of that function:
*<?php
if ( ! function_exists( ‘vw_is_enable_breaking_news’ ) ) {
function vw_is_enable_breaking_news() {
if ( vw_get_theme_option( ‘enable_breaking_news’ ) ) {
if ( is_front_page() ) {
$is_enable_breaking_news = vw_get_theme_option( ‘show_breaking_news_on_front_page’ );
} else {
$is_enable_breaking_news = true;
}
} else {
$is_enable_breaking_news = false;
}
return apply_filters( 'vw_filter_is_enable_breaking_news', $is_enable_breaking_news );
}
}
if ( ! function_exists( ‘vw_get_breaking_news_posts’ ) ) {
function vw_get_breaking_news_posts() {
$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true,
‘posts_per_page’ => 8,
‘offset’ => 0,
);
$source = vw_get_theme_option( 'breaking_news_source' );
if ( 'random' == $source ) {
$args['orderby'] = 'rand';
}
return new WP_Query( apply_filters( 'vw_filter_breaking_news_query_args', $args ) );
}
}
Anybody has any suggestions about how I should do this? I’m no programmer but I feel there is another file missing where this one should point and have definitions of sorts for Wordpress.
Help is greatly appreciated.
MS