Display Post from a Particular Category

  • Resolved phyllis

    (@phyllis)


    19 years, 2 months ago

    I have a category called “Urgent Announcements.” The idea is to have posts in this category show up at the top of my index page. I have had success, thus far, in getting it to show the post title from the category. However, using <?php the_content(); ?> does not render the content of the post in that category, but the content of the whole blog.

    Thus, how can I show the actual content of a post that resides in a given category. In case it would be useful, here is the snip of code I am using to call the Title:

    <?php
$postlist = get_posts('category=2&numberposts=5');
foreach ($postlist as $post) :
?>
<div id=\"urgent-news\">
<a href=\"<?php the_permalink(); ?>\"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

    What I want is the content from that category as well as the title.

    Thanks for any help.

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  • Thread Starter phyllis

    (@phyllis)

    19 years, 2 months ago

    I solved this myself by using a method suggested by the asides. href=”http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Asides#Displaying_Asides_on_the_Sidebar”&gt;

    My final snippet looked like the following:

    <!– Begin Urgent Announcements Loop –>

    <?php
if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp();
?>
<?php if (in_category(14)) { ?>
<div class=\\"asides_sidebar\\">
 <?php echo $post->post_excerpt ?> <?php the_content(); ?>
 <small><?php comments_popup_link(__('#'), __('(1)'), __('(%)')); ?>
   <?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' — '); ?></small>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php endforeach; else: ?>
<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<!-- End Urgent Announcements Loop -->

<!-- Begin Main Content, Excluding Urgent Announcements Category -->

<?php rewind_posts(); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- If the post is in the category we want to exclude, we simply pass to the next post. -->

<!-- insert data here -->

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
<h2 class=\\"center\\">Not Found</h2>
<p class=\\"center\\">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

<!-- End Main Content -->

    For brevity’s sake, I did not post all of the things that should come within the loop. I did, however, place a comment where those things should be placed.

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