Below is a custom function I made, I just modified Matt’s Function.

Anyway, here it is..

<ul>
<?php
$szSort = “user_id”;
$aUsersID = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare(“SELECT $wpdb->usermeta.user_id FROM $wpdb->usermeta where meta_key=’wp_user_level’ and metavalue=’2′ ORDER BY %s ASC” , $szSort ));
foreach ( $aUsersID as $iUserID ) :
$user = get_userdata( $iUserID );
echo ‘<li>’;
echo ‘<a href=”index.php?author=’ .$user->ID.’”>’;
echo ucwords( strtolower( $user->first_name . ‘ ‘ . $user->last_name ) );
echo ‘</a>’;
echo ‘</li>’;
endforeach;
?>
</ul>

$p = get_page(2); // error : Only variables can be passed by reference

it has to be like this:

$n = 2;
$p = get_page($n);

Getting the title and content is easy..

_e($p->post_title)

_e($p->post_content)

I know it sucks but I hope it helps!

Category = term_taxonomy_id // you can see it in the database table called wp_term_taxonomy

Here is the code:

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$conn = mysql_connect(‘localhost’,'root’,”);
mysql_select_db(“keithics”,$conn) or die(mysql_error());

if (!$conn) {
die(‘Error!!–> ‘ . mysql_error()); // if there’s an error, e.g. wrong password or username.
}

$sql = “Select wp_posts.* ,wp_term_relationships.* from `wp_posts`,`wp_term_relationships` where wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’ and wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = 7 and wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id order by rand() limit 5 “;

$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo ‘‘.$row['post_title'].’‘;
}

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[sourcecode language='php']

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$conn = mysql_connect(‘localhost’,'root’,”);
mysql_select_db(“keithics”,$conn) or die(mysql_error());

if (!$conn) {
die(‘Error!!–> ‘ . mysql_error()); // if there’s an error, e.g. wrong password or username.
}

$sql = “Select * from `wp_posts` where post_status = ‘publish’ order by rand() limit 5 “;

$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo ‘‘.$row['post_title'].’‘;
}

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