hm.,,
does anyone here know if it’s possible to get 5 recent posts from a desirable catagory and let it displays in a website
( ie help.php). don’t want show the links but rather show a whole contents.
possible or not?
Erb, I’ve got the code you have posted working at the bottom of my entries (versus in the sidebar). Do you know how I would modify the code you posted to sort the results alphabetically by title instead of by date? Thanks!
has there been any resolution to this. i would like the latest post from any of my 6 categories to be displayed, with the next 5 from any category to be shown underneath by title.
this is close, but lists only other posts as headlines from the same category 🙁
This code is great and something I’ve seen in action on a lot of sites. Thanks so much. For those interested I altered it just a tad and put it in my sidebar.php. What I was looking for was to display all the post titles in whatever category I choose. Now I can add or subtract a category at will (manually of course). He’s the code I used (I took out the $cat globals so I could maually select the category):
<div id="sidebar">
<?php
$posts = get_posts("category=1" . "&numberposts=20");
if( $posts ) :
?>
<div class="recent-posts">
<h4>Exhibitions</h4>
<h5>2006-2007</h5>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php
$posts = get_posts("category=2" . "&numberposts=5");
if( $posts ) :
?>
<div class="recent-posts">
<h4>News & Events</h4>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
sfam – I think you could make the order alphabetical quite easily with the addition of &order=ASC&orderby=post_title in the get_posts() request:
$posts = get_posts("category=" . $category->cat_ID . "&numberposts=5");
See information here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts#Generate_another_list
This seemed to work for me, but I was testing it on a set up that appears quite different from yours. HTH!
And FWIW, here’s the current version I’m using, which excludes a specific category (I use have one category hold all posts, sort of a default) in the listing and also puts each list in a new table cell (although this could be modified easily to divs, ids, and classes should one prefer) at most three columns wide.
<?php $original_post = $post;
/* insert the whole code to get recent posts of same category */ ?>
<div class="all-recent-posts">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="recent-posts"><tr><?php
$r=1;
foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
if($category->cat_ID==1){
//do nothing: ignore category #1
}else{
$posts = get_posts("category=" . $category->cat_ID . "&numberposts=5&orderby=post_title");
if( $posts ) : ?>
<td valign="top" width="33%">
<h4><span class="small10" style="color:#399;">Most Recent in</span><br><?=$category->cat_name?></h4>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li><span class="date"><?php the_time("m/d/y") ?></span> - <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
</td>
<?php
if(fmod($r, 3)==0){
echo "</tr><tr> <!--" . fmod($r,3) . "-->";
}else{
echo "<!--nothing to see here--> <!--" . fmod($r, 3) . "-->";
}
$r=$r+1;
endif;
}
}
?>
</tr></table></div>
Hopefully those more knowledgeable than I can make this even better!
Thanx, this was what I needed, there is only one slight problem. When I check the categorie news, it only shows the posts listed in this category. But when I check another categorie it shows the posts listed in that categorie, but in NEWS ass well.
How can I adjust the code in that way that it will only show the post for that particular categorie?
The codes in this thread work great except when a post is in multiple categories. Any gurus out there who can help?
klifix and bokinuk, I believe this is what you are looking for:
<?php
$posts = get_posts("category=2" . $cat->cat_ID . "&numberposts=5");
if( $posts ) :
?>
<h2>Category Title </h2>
<ul class="cat class">
<?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li class="list class" >" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
