Only show post thumbnails – for one category | WordPress.org

Resolved tjobbe
(@tjobbe)

13 years, 5 months ago

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?

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Michael
(@alchymyth)

13 years, 5 months ago
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
Thread Starter tjobbe
(@tjobbe)

13 years, 5 months ago
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?
Michael
(@alchymyth)

13 years, 5 months ago

my mistake, a missed ‘ :

should be:

echo 'a href="' . get_permalink($footer_thumb->ID) . '">' . get_the_post_thumbnail($footer_thumb->ID) . '</a>';

Thread Starter tjobbe
(@tjobbe)

13 years, 5 months ago

Perfect, thank you so much!

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