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1. triplemoons
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Anyone have an idea what the PHP for this would be?

2. racer x
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   query_posts('category_name=Staff Home');

   or you can use the ID.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

3. triplemoons
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for trying to help, I appreciate the effort, but that's not enough information.

   Here is a sample page.

   You will see in the sidebar their are 2 sections. I need to be able to have posts from their respective categories to appear.

   I tried this:

   <ul>
   
   <?php query_posts("category_id=6&orderby=desc&showposts=4"); ?>
   
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
   <li><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?><br /><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   
   <?php endwhile; ?>
   
   </ul>

   It made the actual page content wonky. It is displaying a post rather then the page content.

4. racer x
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   First. You can call the category by cat=6 rather than category_id=6.

   If you are doing additional queries beyond the main loop on the page then you can use this:

   <?php
   $latestPosts = new WP_Query();
   $latestPosts->query('cat=6&showposts=4');
   while ($latestPosts->have_posts()) : $latestPosts->the_post();
   ?>
   ...do your li display thing here...
   <?php endwhile; ?>

   ...and then a second time for the next loop.

5. triplemoons
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You, my dear, are brilliant! Assistance on these forums is usually non-existent, so your help is much appreciated! I'm definitely no PHP expert. ;)

6. racer x
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Your welcome. I "wish" I was brilliant!

7. triplemoons
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What about links?

   Tried this and was unsuccessful:

   <ul>
   
   			<?php
   				$bookmarks = new WP_Query();
   				$bookmarks->query('cat=15');
   				$bookmarks = get_bookmarks("cat=15");
   				if ($bookmarks[0] != '') { ?>
   
   				<?php
   				foreach ( $bookmarks as $bookmark ) {
   				?>
   
   			<li><a href="<?php echo clean_url($bookmark->link_url); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $bookmark->link_name; ?></a></li>
   
   			<?php endwhile; ?>
   
   			</ul>

8. triplemoons
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Nevermind! Got it worked out! :)

   Looks like there's a mistake in codex.

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