Title: Pulling posts using php Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Pulling posts using php * [stirlingcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stirlingcreative/) * (@stirlingcreative) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/) * Hi, * I have taken over a wordpress based site which was set up by a web developer ( who is no longer available to help me) * Basically he has PHP code on the front page (a custom template) and this code on the page is pulling the post titles etc to show recent activity. * The code is: * * See where it says “press” it was pulling the posts labeled as “press” – Now I am being asked to make it a mix or “press” and “blog” * Can anyone tell me how to alter that line so it pulls both? I tried puting in a comma after press and then adding blog, but it broke everything. I am a bit clueless with PHP after a certain level. Any help would REALLY! help me out. * Thanks! Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/#post-1665236) * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts) * Thread Starter [stirlingcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stirlingcreative/) * (@stirlingcreative) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/#post-1665243) * went to that, I only see this: * query_posts(‘category_name=Staff Home’); * It doesn’t show me how to grab multiple categories by name? I am really sorry If I sound like a total idiot, I am more comfortable with front end design and back end PHP stuff tends to easily confuse me. * I even tried putting just a space between the words and it broke the thing, again a comma doesn’t do it, any more advice? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/#post-1665301) * You need to use category ids if you want to pull from multiple categories. From the page I linked to: * > Multiple Category Handling > Display posts that are in multiple categories. This shows posts that are in > both categories 2 and 6: > query_posts(array(‘category__and’ => array(2,6))); * Thread Starter [stirlingcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stirlingcreative/) * (@stirlingcreative) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/#post-1665313) * How do I find out the numbers associated with my categories? * When in admin mode when I hover over “pages” I see the numbers associated with the pages at the end of the URL, however, the part i need to pull from is in the “posts” section and it doesn’t give you a simple number that is associated with the post category. * I hope this makes sense, if I can find that out then I can put your advice into practice and see if it works for me…. * Thread Starter [stirlingcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stirlingcreative/) * (@stirlingcreative) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/#post-1665318) * sorry, figured out the categories part, got those numbers, will now try out your code. will let you know what happened * Thread Starter [stirlingcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stirlingcreative/) * (@stirlingcreative) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/#post-1665340) * OK, sadly for me that made everything break, as I mentioned before I am not exactly a programmer although I am expected to get these things fixed. * Below is the entire code chunk for what I am trying to do, just incase this sheds more light on a potential problem or makes it easier to see what I am doing wrong * _[Code moderated. Please post code snippets between backticks or use a [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com) for larger blocks of code]_ * The top part: **** * Shows the most recent post, it shows the excerpt from the page with the date etc. * The next part: **** * I need to keep that showposts=10 part to show the last 10 posts…. could be why it all broke? * This is where I tried to change it to the other code with the ID’s – Just for the record my ID’s are blog=7 and press=3 * Can you let me know if this even makes even the most remote bit of sense? * Thread Starter [stirlingcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stirlingcreative/) * (@stirlingcreative) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/#post-1665485) * Ok, this ALMOST did exactly what I wanted it to do…. * array(3,7)));? > * The feed did show a mix of the 2 categories, BUT! – it didn’t show any more than the most recent and the next one, thr part where I have it saying showposts=10 didnt seem to register. Any ideas? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/#post-1665495) * ` array(3,7) . '&posts_per_page=10'); ?>` * Thread Starter [stirlingcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stirlingcreative/) * (@stirlingcreative) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pulling-posts-using-php/#post-1665496) * thanks man, but that made the whole page vanish, I reverted though so its cool, * I know I am so close yet so far from getting this to work….. 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