Get a list of posts on a static page

  • d.jordan

    (@djordan-1)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi there,
    I’m trying to get a list of posts of a certain category on a page. On that page is a shortcode like [get_list].
    The markup should look like this:

    <ul>
<li>
  <a href="#"id="">'.the_title().'</a>
  <a href="#"id="">'.the_title().'</a>
  ...
</li>
</ul>

    I tried this:

    function get_offenestellen( $atts ) {
if (is_page()) {
  $cat=12;
  $posts = get_posts ("cat=$cat&showposts=5");
  if ($posts) {
    foreach ($posts as $post):
      setup_postdata($post); ?>
      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
    <?php endforeach;
  }
}
return;
}
add_shortcode( 'offene_stellen', 'get_offenestellen' );

    But all I get is like links to the page I’m currently on (the one with the shortcode on).

    What’s my mistake? Can you help me?

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    shortcodes need to return the results;

    your code is returning nothing with this line:

    return;

    review https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

    try:

    function get_offenestellen( $atts ) {
if (is_page()) {
  $cat=12;
  $posts = get_posts ("cat=$cat&showposts=5");
  if ($posts) {
    $list = '';
    foreach ($posts as $post):
      setup_postdata($post); ?>
      $list .= '<a href="' . get_the_permalink( $post->ID ) . '" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to ' . the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) . '">' . the_title('','',false) . '</a>';
    endforeach;
  }
}
wp_reset_postdata();
return $list;
}
add_shortcode( 'offene_stellen', 'get_offenestellen' );

    (not tested for typing mistakes)
    the above does not take care of your desired html structure;
    if you have problems integrating that yourself, please post again.

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