'category_posts', 'description' => 'Displays the post image and excerpt from a selected category **Does not work on singlepost sidebar**'.'bundler' );
/* Create the widget. */
parent::__construct( 'category_posts-widget', 'Bundler - Premium Popular Posts', $widget_ops, '' );
}
function widget( $args, $instance ) {
global $bundler_data;
extract( $args );
/* User-selected settings. */
$title = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title'] );
// to sure the number of posts displayed isn't negative or more than 10
if ( !$number = (int) $instance['number'] )
$number = 5;
else if ( $number < 1 )
$number = 1;
else if ( $number > 10 )
$number = 10;
//the query that will get post from a specific category.
//Wr slug the category because you actualy need the slug and not the name
$pc = new WP_Query("orderby=comment_count&showposts=".$number."&nopaging=0&post_status=publish&ignore_sticky_posts=1&post_type=post");
//display the posts title as a link
if ($pc->have_posts()) :
echo $before_widget;
if ( $title ) echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
?>
have_posts()) : $pc->the_post(); ?>