For example, 123 as the category ID set up for featured posts.
<?php
query_posts('posts_per_page=1&cat=123');
if(have_pots()) :
the_post();
?>
<div class="featured">
<a href="<? the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a>
<div class="entry"><?php the_content(); ?></div>
</div>
<?php
endif;
wp_reset_query();
?>
If you want to use category name, change this:
query_posts('posts_per_page=1&cat=123')
to this:
query_posts('posts_per_page=1&category_name=Featured')
replace [Featured] with your category name.
Hey thanks! I’ll give this a try ….
@kz, thanks for this, I will try this on one of my blog.
If not mistaken, since there’s no while loop in the code above provided by kz, you don’t need to specify posts_per_page=1. Just a simple: query_posts('cat=123');. The query will stop at 1 post.
And also there’s a typo: if(have_pots()) : should be if(have_posts()) :
Correct me if I’m wrong 😉
Could someone say where about in the home.php I insert the code as I’m doing trial and error ad getting no where.
<?php get_header() ?>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<div id="nav-above" class="navigation">
<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link(__('<span class="meta-nav">«</span>', 'sandbox')) ?></div>
<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link(__('<span class="meta-nav">»</span>', 'sandbox')) ?></div>
</div>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
<div id="post-<?php the_ID() ?>" class="featured <?php sandbox_post_class() ?>">
<div class="entry-date bigdate"><abbr class="published" title="<?php the_time('Y-m-d\TH:i:sO') ?>"><?php the_time('d M'); ?></abbr></div>
<h2 class="entry-title post-content-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php printf( __('Permalink to %s', 'sandbox'), the_title_attribute('echo=0') ) ?>" rel="bookmark"><span><?php the_title() ?></span></a></h2>
<div class="entry-content post-content">
<h4><?php the_title() ?></h4>
<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'sandbox' ) . '&after=</div>') ?>
</div>
<span class="attach-post-image" style="height:300px;display:block;background:url('<?php the_post_image_url('large'); ?>') center center repeat"> </span>
</div><!-- .post -->
<?php comments_template() ?>
<?php endwhile ?>
<div id="nav-below" class="navigation">
<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link(__('<span class="meta-nav">«</span> Older posts', 'sandbox')) ?></div>
<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link(__('Newer posts <span class="meta-nav">»</span>', 'sandbox')) ?></div>
</div>
</div><!-- #content -->
</div>
<!-- #container -->
<?php get_footer() ?>
I managed to sort it out by trial and error
line <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
insert query_posts('posts_per_page=4&category_name=your_cat'); just prior to while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>
works a treat now, another job off my list.
