WordPress.org

1. Sulcalibur
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm having some strange things happen when I'm trying to have a list of the five latest titles from one category in the footer.

   Currently I have

   <div class="footbox2">
           		<h3 class="previousarticles">Previous Articles</h3>
   				<?php query_posts("category=7&amp;showposts=5"); ?>
   				<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   				<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   				<ul><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   				<?php endwhile; ?>
   				<?php else : ?>
   				<li>There are currently no news posts.</li>
   				<?php endif; ?>
   				</ul>
   				<hr />
   				<p>If you cannot see what you are looking for you can check the <a href="http://77pixels.com/archive">archives</a>, use the <a href="http://77pixels.com/search">search</a> (just to the left) or <a href="http://77pixels.com/contact">contact me</a> directly &amp; I promise I'll get back to you as soon as I can, Suleiman.
   				</p>
              </div><!-- footbox2 -->

   Now the key thing here is
   <?php query_posts("category=7&amp;showposts=5"); ?>

   I know it is meant to be..
   <?php query_posts('cat=7&amp;showposts=5'); ?>
   But whenever I do that the page just shows up as a blank white web page with no source (weird). The code I have though works showing 5 posts, but they are from ALL categories which is the problem :(

   So basically I want this problem to get sorted and I have no idea what to do, as all the info just tells me to put the code that makes the page vanish.

   Any help would be great, thanks

2. t31os
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Try using a new query like so...

   <?php $pQuery = new WP_Query('category=7&amp;showposts=5'); ?>
   <?php if ($pQuery->have_posts()) : ?>
   <?php while ($pQuery->have_posts()) : $pQuery->the_post(); ?>

   NOTE: Remove the amp; from the code which is being added by the forum (bug).

3. Sulcalibur
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I tried all that and a few others online I just get a blank white page after saving and refreshing.

4. t31os
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Try reseting the query before or after, depending where you other queries are.

   <?php wp_reset_query();?>

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.