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1. convan23
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi,

   On my home page I would like to be able to display posts from different catagories in different areas of the page.

   To make my self clear - in one DIV I want posts from lets say category number 3, and in another DIV I want posts from lets say category number1 1.

   So far I have -
   code
   <?php query_posts( 'posts_per_page=8','category_name=Case-Studies' ); ?><?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> ...
   /code
   and
   code
   <?php query_posts( 'posts_per_page=1','category_name=Home' ); ?>
   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   /code
   but the problem is that both parts display posts from only the Case_Studies category. Ive tried
   code
   <?php query_posts( 'posts_per_page=1','cat=-3' ); ?>
   /code
   as well to see if i could exclude the 3rd category but it didnt help. Any ideas?

2. Ryan Fitzer
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I do the same thing in my sidebar. Here's how:

   <div id="sidebar">

   <?php
   $posts = get_posts("category=2" . "&numberposts=5");
   if( $posts ) :
   ?>

   <div class="recent-posts">

   <h4><a href="index.php?cat=2">Recent News &raquo;</a></h4>

   <ul>

   <?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
   <?php
   $even_odd = ( 'odd' != $even_odd ) ? 'odd' : '';
   ?>
   <li class="<?php echo $even_odd; ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

   </ul>

   </div>

   <?php endif; ?>

   <?php
   $posts = get_posts("category=3" . "&numberposts=5");
   if( $posts ) :
   ?>

   <div class="recent-posts">

   <h4><a href="index.php?cat=3">Recent Events &raquo;</a></h4>

   <ul>

   <?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
   <?php
   $even_odd = ( 'odd' != $even_odd ) ? 'odd' : '';
   ?>
   <li class="<?php echo $even_odd; ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

   </ul>

   </div>

   <?php endif; ?>

   <h4><a href="?page_id=31">Links &raquo;</a></h4>
   <ul>
   <?php get_links('1', '<li>', '</li>', ' ', FALSE, 'rating', TRUE, TRUE, 15, TRUE); ?>
   </ul>

   </div>

   The bits about $even_odd are from http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/alternating-rows-in-php/
   It gives the <li> element an alternating clas of "odd" so as to style them with stripes or however you'd like.

3. convan23
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Ok thanks I'll give it a try right now

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