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1. Skeary
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #
   

   I have this in my sidebar.php and it works, except that it overwrites the main query of the page and every time I just get the archive for the newsletter category. How can I stop it from doing that? What is the recommended way to get that data without interrupting the main loop? Do I need to use a wpdb query? seems like it shouldn't need that..

   <?php
   			query_posts( 'category_name=newsletter' );
   
   			if ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
   				<select id="newsletter-dropdown" name="newsletter-dropdown">
   				<option value="">Newsletter Archives</option>
   
   				<? while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   					<option value="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></option>
   				<?php endwhile; ?>
   				</select>
   			<?php endif; ?>
   			<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

2. Skeary
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #
   

   Looks like get_posts() was the way to go.

   I would have rather gone by category name, but this will have to do.

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