I'd like to show all the post-thumbnails from a specific blog category in my sites footer.
What this will mean is that there will be nine thumbnails, each from the latest post in a specific category (in this case "work"), and they will display in my footer in a 3 by 3 grid layout, each linking through to the relevant blog post.
I have the thumbnails working, but not sure how to call ONLY the thumbnail andurl to the post, for a specific category, and limit it to the last 9 posts!
Can any please help me?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_permalink
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_post_thumbnail
for instance (example without html tags for formatting):
<?php
$footer_thumbs = get_posts('category_name=work&numberposts=9');
if( $footer_thumbs ) :
foreach( $footer_thumbs as $footer_thumb ) {
setup_postdata($footer_thumb);
echo 'a href="' . get_permalink($footer_thumb->ID) . '"> . get_the_post_thumbnail($footer_thumb->ID) . '</a>';
}
endif;
?>
untested
Thank you so much for this, looks like what I need! However, when I plug this into index.php I get the following:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '/' in C:\xampp\htdocs\sites\pla2011\wp-content\themes\starkers\index.php on line 30
and line 30 being:
echo 'a href="' . get_permalink($footer_thumb->ID) . '"> . get_the_post_thumbnail($footer_thumb->ID) . '</a>';
Looks like a syntax error, but I can't spot it?
my mistake, a missed ' :
should be:
echo 'a href="' . get_permalink($footer_thumb->ID) . '">' . get_the_post_thumbnail($footer_thumb->ID) . '</a>';
Perfect, thank you so much!
tjobbe
