Osu

This might be of use to those looking for the same solution:

How to display sticky post from a certain category?

Thanks esmi, but that doesn’t show how to get the link *category* description from what I can see, only echos out the individual descriptions for each link. Any idea how to grab that description? In the admin end of WP it says:

“Description (optional)…The description is not prominent by default; however, some themes may show it.”

So I’m assuming it is possible to use it in my theme…

That worked a treat! Thanks!

Only thing is that it was counting the number of posts in the main loop as well as the additional one, meaning that after I added global $do_not_duplicate; to both the main loop and footer template files, I had to change the footer.php file to this:

<ul class="fbox">
				<li class="heading"><h3>Other news</h3></li>
				<li class="description">Other news from the all regions</li>
				<?php
				// This is the additional loop

				// To maintain five posts in the footer 'Other news' box, need to add count to WP_Query argument
				// as
				$fiveposts = count($do_not_duplicate);
				$fiveposts = $fiveposts + 5;
				$my_query = new WP_Query('cat=1&showposts=' . $fiveposts . '');

				 while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
				 	if ( !in_array( $post->ID, $do_not_duplicate ) ) { ?>
				 <li>
				 	<h2 class="entry-title">
				 		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'templatename' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
				 	</h2>
				 </li>
				<?php
					}
				endwhile; ?>
				<li class="highlight"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/?cat=1">See all news</a></li>
			</ul>

By the way, out of interest, is there any security issues with making variables global like this?

Thought as much…no help available right?

Am I right in thinking that WordPress is a waste of time as a more conventional CMS?

I get the impression that either this forum is dead, no-one knows how to use it in this capacity (which goes against what this site lists here: ‘kick-ass examples of WordPress being used as a CMS’: http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/WP_as_CMS), or alturism/helping people with this type of topic has ground to a halt.

As you can tell, I’m fairly desperate to use WP as a CMS as I was under the understanding it has the potential. It fits the bill perfectly in many other respects, but someone please tell me if I’m wasting my time.

Anyone?