Calling Posts from a Specific Category

Resolved notreallysure
(@notreallysure)

14 years, 10 months ago

Hey guys

I’m pretty new to wordpress and my PHP experience is limited. I’ve been dancing around this and unfortunately can’t find my exact answer in the Codex.

I have assigned a specific category (I call it Featured) and it has a cat_id of 44. I want to grab any post that is checked in the featured category and display it within in my set div.

I have looked over the get_the_category and haven’t been able to make it happen, it just displays the array I tried to call.

<?php
global $post;
$categories = get_the_category($post->ID);
var_dump($categories);
?>

(I realize this is probably because I haven’t assigned the variable $categories but again, not really sure…

Not really sure… any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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esmi
(@esmi)

14 years, 10 months ago

get_the_category simply returns a list of categories that a given post has been assigned to. So it’s not suitable for your purposes.

query_posts might be better.
MichaelH
(@michaelh)

14 years, 10 months ago
You want a The Loop to do that.

A get_posts loop with something like this to display 8 posts in category 44, date order, newest date first
```
<?php
$cat = 44
$args = array(
  'orderby' => 'date',
  'order' => 'DESC',
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'numberposts' => 8,
  'category__in' => array($cat)
  );
$posts=get_posts($args);
if ($posts) {
  foreach($posts as $post) {
    setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
    <p><?php the_time('m.d.y') ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php }
  }
}
?>
```
boatwizard
(@boatwizard)

14 years, 9 months ago

What if I just want to display posts per one category (e.g. cat_ID=8).

Have tried:

<?php if (is_page()) { query_posts(‘cat_ID=8’); } ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

And…

<?php query_posts(‘cat_ID=8’); ?>

<?php if (is_page()) { query_posts(“cat_ID=8”); } ?>

<?php if(is_category(‘8’)) continue; ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php query_posts(array(‘category__and’ => array(8,1))); ?>

Stuck! Using WPMU 2.7.1

Mark / t31os
(@t31os_)

14 years, 9 months ago

query_posts('cat=8')

Just cat, not cat_name, not cat_id, just plain old cat… 🙂 …

boatwizard
(@boatwizard)

14 years, 9 months ago

Odd, just gave me a blank white page. Needs cat_ID to display! This is what I have (but shows posts from both categories):

<?php query_posts(‘cat_ID=8’); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

This shows a blank white page;

<?php query_posts(‘cat=8’); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

MichaelH
(@michaelh)

14 years, 9 months ago

Probably have other problems with your theme, but the second set of code, as t31os_ explained, is correct.

Also let me point out the MU support forums:
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums

boatwizard
(@boatwizard)

14 years, 9 months ago

Thanks, I have a post on other forum – just need to get as much awareness to this to fix it and thought WP Forum would do it! Theme seems to work otherwise – using basic theme although created new template using one from theme as basis.