<?php 
	$ppl_page = $GLOBALS['wp_the_query']->query_vars['paged'];
	if (!$ppl_page) $ppl_page = 1;
	$ppl_limit = $GLOBALS['wp_the_query']->query_vars['posts_per_page'];
	$ppl_offset = $ppl_page * $ppl_limit;
	recent_posts("skip=$ppl_offset&limit=$ppl_limit"); 
?>

Basically the code works out the range of posts you want to display and passes that information to the plugin as a parameter string.

Now for the {categoryid} issue. It is hard to see why Random Posts and Recent Posts should behave differently since the code to evaluate {categoryid} should be from the same file — post-plugin-library/output_tags.php. It’s possible there is a bug in the common code though.

{categoryid} is an awkward tag! Since categories can be hierarchical and since posts can belong to multiple categories, certain decisions have to be made. I work on the following rules: 1) if multiple categories are assigned to a post the more general ones are knocked out if more specific ones are also assigned; 2) if multiple categories are left choose the first (the numerically smallest).

I’d like to solve the problem you are having. Can you tell me whether your posts fall in more than one category and whether your categories are hierarchical? It would also help if you made two bug reports — one from the settings screen of each plugin. Thanks.

div id=”postHeader{categoryid}”
div class=”post{categoryid}”

I use your “Random Post” and the “Recent Post” plugin. Both working fine, but I have a output problem with “Recent Posts”. To display different graphics for each category I use a similar code like that:

It works fine for the Random Post plugin with 6 categories but if I use {categoryid} with the Recent Post plugin it just return two different category numbers.

Also is it possible to have a kind of navigation for the Recent Post plugin. I want to show 5 recent posts per page but with the possibility to go further back in the archive. So basically the functionality what you can get with the index.php

Thanks for your help
Alfons

For the grouped output make some entries on output settings screen: sort by {date:Y-m-d} descending and use {date} as the group output template. You can use whatever you like as the output template for the article items, e.g., <li>{link}</li>

Good luck!

so that you get this:

Date (today)
article 1
article 2
article 3
article 4

Date (yesterday)
article 1
article 2
article 3

Date (day before yesterday)
article 1
article 2
etc
etc

I just installed the plugin and add it to my code with this line:

but now my layout is a bit messed up. I think the width of the plugin isn’t right. Can you see what i’m doing wrong. My site http://wielerprimeur.nl