Customised Display for Advanced Recent Posts Mod

if( !function_exists('yg_recentposts')) {
      function yg_recentposts($args = '', $echo = true) {
            global $wpdb;
            $defaults = yg_recentposts_defaults();
            $args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
            extract($args);

            $hideposttitle = (bool) $hideposttitle;
            $separator = $separator;
            $afterexcerpt = $afterexcerpt;
            $afterexcerptlink = (bool) $afterexcerptlink;
            $show_type = $show_type;

            $shownum = (int) abs($shownum);
            if(isset($limit) && $shownum == 10) $shownum = (int) $limit;
            $postoffset = (int) abs($postoffset);
            $reverseorder = (int) abs($reverseorder);
            $firstimage = (bool) $firstimage;
            $showauthor = (bool) $showauthor;
            $showtime = (bool) $showtime;

            $spot = esc_attr($spot);

            $atimage = (bool) $atimage;
            $defimage = esc_url($defimage);
            $format = esc_attr($format);
            $time = '';
            $width = (int) $width;
            $height = (int) $height;
            $w = (int) $w;
            $h = (int) $h;
            if ($width > $w) {
                $width = $width; $height = $height;
            } else {
                $width = $w; $height = $h;
            }

            $excerptlength = (int) abs($excerpt);
            $excerptlengthwords = (int) abs($excerptlengthwords);
            $excerpt = '';
            $cats = str_replace(" ", "", esc_attr($cats));
            if (($shownum < 1 ) || ($shownum > 20)) $shownum = 10;

                if (($actcat) && (is_category())) {
                    $cats = get_query_var('cat');
                }
                if (($actcat) && (is_single())) {
                    $cats = '';
                    foreach (get_the_category() as $catt) {
                        $cats .= $catt->cat_ID.' ';
                    }
                    $cats = str_replace(" ", ",", trim($cats));
                }

                if (!intval($cats)) $cats='';
                $query = "cat=$cats&showposts=$shownum&post_type=$show_type&offset=$postoffset";
                $posts = get_posts($query); //get posts

                if ($reverseorder) $posts = array_reverse($posts);
                $postlist = '';
                $height = $height ? ' height: ' . $height .'px;' : '';
                $width = $width ? ' width: ' . $width . 'px;' : '';
                $hw = (!empty($height) || !empty($width)) ? 'style="'.$width.$height.'"' : '';

                foreach ($posts as $post) {
                    if ($showtime) { $time = ' '. date($format,strtotime($post->post_date)); }
                    $post_title = stripslashes($post->post_title);
                    if ($excerptlength) {
                        $excerpt = $post->post_excerpt;
                        $text = $post->post_content;
                        $text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
                        $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]&gt;', $text);
                        $text = strip_tags($text);
                        $excerpt_length = 100;
                        $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
                        if ( '' == $excerpt ) {
                            if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
                                array_pop($words);
                                $text = implode(' ', $words);
                            }
                            $excerpt = $text;
                        }
                        $afterexcerpt_html = '';

                        // Original code for Advanced Recent Posts Mod
                        // if ($afterexcerptlink) $afterexcerpt_html = '<a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . $afterexcerpt . '</a>';

                        // Customised display fixes for Advanced Recent Posts Mod
                        if ($afterexcerptlink)
                        $afterexcerpt_html = '<span class="special_read_more_link">
                        <br />
                        <br />
                        <strong>
                        <span style="color: #7030a0;">&gt;</span><span style="color: #808080;">&gt;</span>
                        </strong>
                        <a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . $afterexcerpt . '</a></span>';
                        // End of customised display

                        else $afterexcerpt_html = $afterexcerpt;
                        if ($excerptlengthwords > 0 ) {
                            $words = array_splice($words, 0, $excerptlengthwords);
                            $excerpt = implode(' ', $words);
                        }elseif(strlen($excerpt) > $excerptlength) {
                            $excerpt = mb_substr($excerpt, 0, $excerptlength);
                        }
                        $excerpt = $separator . ($spot == 'spot3' ? '<span class="date">'.$time.'</span> ' : '') . $excerpt . $afterexcerpt_html;
                    }
                    $image = '';
                    $img = '';
                    if ($cusfield) {
                        $cusfield = esc_attr($cusfield);
                        $img = get_post_meta($post->ID, $cusfield, true);
                    }

                    if (!$img && $firstimage) {
                        $match_count = preg_match_all("/<img[^']*?src=\"([^']*?)\"[^']*?>/", $post->post_content, $match_array, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
                        $img = count($match_array['1']) > 0 ? $match_array[1][0] : false;
                    }
                    if (!$img && $atimage) {
                        $p = array(
                            'post_type' => 'attachment',
                            'post_mime_type' => 'image',
                            'numberposts' => 1,
                            'order' => 'ASC',
                            'orderby' => 'menu_order ID',
                            'post_status' => null,
                            'post_parent' => $post->ID
                         );
                        $attachments = get_posts($p);
                        if ($attachments) {
                            $imgsrc = wp_get_attachment_image_src($attachments[0]->ID, 'thumbnail');
                            $img = $imgsrc[0];
                        }
                     }

                    if (!$img && $defimage)
                        $img = $defimage;

                    // Customised display fixes for Advanced Recent Posts Mod
                    $postlist .=  '<li>'.($spot == 'spot1' ? '<span class="date">'.$time.'</span> ' : '');

                    if (!$hideposttitle) $postlist .= '<a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '" title="'. $post_title .'" >' . $post_title .'</a>';
                        $author_data = get_userdata($post->post_author);
                    $postlist .= ($showauthor ? ' by '.$author_data->display_name : '') . ($spot == 'spot2' ? ' <span class="date">'.$time.'</span>' : '') ;
                    if ($img)
                        $image = '<a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '" title="'. $post_title .'" ><img src="' . $img . '" title="' . $post_title . '" class="recent-posts-thumb" ' . $hw . ' /></a>';

                    $postlist .= ( '<p>' .$image ) . ( $excerpt . "</p>" ) . '</li>';
                    // End of customised display

                    // Original code for Advanced Recent Posts Mod
                    // $postlist .=  '<li>'.($spot == 'spot1' ? '<span class="date">'.$time.'</span> ' : '');
                    // $postlist .= $image;
                    // if (!$hideposttitle) $postlist .= '<a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '" title="'. $post_title .'" >' . $post_title .'</a>';
                    // $author_data = get_userdata($post->post_author);
                    // $postlist .= ($showauthor ? ' by '.$author_data->display_name : '') . ($spot == 'spot2' ? ' <span class="date">'.$time.'</span>' : '') . $excerpt . "</li>";

                }// end foreach()

            if ($echo)
                echo '<ul class="advanced-recent-posts">' . $postlist . '</ul>';
            else
                return '<ul class="advanced-recent-posts">' . $postlist . '</ul>';
    }
}