For advance users who want to display recent posts from a specific category, we have this article specially for you. Beginner users will most likely not use this. This tutorial is mostly used in creating magazine style themes.
<?php $catquery = new WP_Query( 'cat=3&posts_per_page=10' ); while($catquery->have_posts()) : $catquery->the_post(); ?> <ul> <li><h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3> <ul><li><?php the_content(); ?></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <?php endwhile; ?>
At the top where it says showpost= change the number to how many posts you want to display, and cat=3 is the id of the category, so change the ID of the category to pick which category will you be displaying.
A live example of this tutorial in action is at Balkhis.com
The news style format where it displays recent news from each category is accomplished using the code above.
How could I include a thumbnail of each post to this?
Is there a way to put that code or whatever something similar, in the sidebar?
@wpbeginner Yes, I am using a magazine style theme I paste it in the single.php I want to display in posts not on the index page and the code is not have closing tags?
@ibadullah25 Paste the code in the file where you want to display this… Usually a code like this is used in magazine style themes often on the homepage.
How this code works?
I mean where should I paste this?
Hey,
the site mentioned above was built as part of experimental project. it was built from scratch with no modifications what so ever.
Lately, after discovering you helpful site (you guys are doing well here), i used the code mentioned here and then funny thing happened; it took over the title (the title changed to ‘Reviews’ – reviews is the category im pulling) . the title before that was fine and when I remove the code the title is going back to normal… i should mention that i’m using also All in One SEO…
any thoughts??
thanks you for your time!