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.
I don’t know where to add this code, please help!
Hi Henry,
The code goes into your theme’s template files. However, if you are a beginner, then we will recommend you to use Recent Posts Extended plugin. It will allow you to display recent post from categories without writing any code.
I knew it but forgot. I tried it and it worked well. Thanks
how to use this code? can i use this in a widget? or i have to create another page to use this code?
Hi, with this code, i alway get the same image, i tested and added the title and i alway get the same title.
problem with the pagination of posts. Any solution?
Hey, did you find a solution for the pagination problem?
Can I make a shortcode using this code and use it in a page?
Yes you can.
I just thought you should know that this code broke the comments on my site. It made it so that every post had the same comments throughout the whole blog
Thanks a lot…
Thanks so much for this code. It worked perfectly for me. I needed to show only one post from one category on one particular page and this did it! Thanks again.
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!
Nice ! thanks a lot !