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1. arcab4
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   So i used this code to show posts from two specific categories:

   <?php query_posts(array('category__and'=>array(3,46))); ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <span class="listings"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title('','','&raquo;'); ?></a></span> <?php the_excerpt('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;') ?><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title(); ?>">Click Here To Continue</a>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>
   <?php endwhile;?>

   So this outputs all the posts that match only categories 3 and 46. But the problem is it shows ALL posts that match that.

   Question 1: how do i show only maybe the 3 most recent post? i know it was showposts=3 but b/c of the array coding, i don't know where to put it.

   Thank you,

2. arcab4
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   just for anyone ever looking...i think i figured it out.

   this will show posts that are ONLY in category 3 and 46 and then show only 3 posts from it (instead of all the posts)

   <? $count = 0 ; ?>
   <?php query_posts(array('category__and'=>array(3,46))); ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?if ($count<3) {?>
   <span class="listings"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title('','','&raquo;'); ?></a></span> <?php the_excerpt('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;') ?><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Permanent link to <?php the_title(); ?>">Click Here To Continue</a>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>
   <? } ?>
   <? $count ++;?>
   <?php endwhile;?>

3. coppertopjsq
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hello. I was wondering if you could help me with something similar. I would like to make the drop down category widget (wp 2.3.3) to show only posts in two distinct categories. I want to set one and allow the user to choose the other. Do you have any idea how I can do this?

   I looked at the code in widgets.php and tried to do something similar to what you had cat=3,4 or something like that but it didn't work.

   Thanks.

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