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jordan
jordan

Reputation: 10722

WP -- Get posts by category?

I'm using this in my page template to get posts by their category:

<?php 
        if (is_page(19)){
            ?>
            <ul>
            <?php
                global $post;
                $args = array( 'category' => 'Testimonial' );
                $myposts = get_posts( $args );
                foreach( $myposts as $post ) :  setup_postdata($post); ?>
                    <li class="testimonial"><?php the_content(); ?></li><br/>
                <?php endforeach; ?>
            </ul>
        <?php } ?>

but it's retrieving all posts instead. Not just the ones labeled Testimonial. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 119689

Answers (5)

Eray
Eray

Reputation: 7128

Check here : https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_posts/

Note: The category parameter needs to be the ID of the category, and not the category name.

Upvotes: 17

Raunaque Zamir
Raunaque Zamir

Reputation: 96

Create a taxonomy field category (field name = post_category) and import it in your template as shown below:

<?php
          $categ = get_field('post_category');  
          $args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 6,
         'category_name' => $categ->slug );
          $myposts = get_posts( $args );
          foreach ( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
            //your code here
          <?php endforeach; 
          wp_reset_postdata();?>

Upvotes: 1

Christian Kengen
Christian Kengen

Reputation: 19

add_shortcode( 'seriesposts', 'series_posts' );

function series_posts( $atts )
{ ob_start();

$myseriesoption = get_option( '_myseries', null );

$type = $myseriesoption;
$args=array(  'post_type' => $type,  'post_status' => 'publish',  'posts_per_page' => 5,  'caller_get_posts'=> 1);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<ul>'; 
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
echo '<li><a href="';
echo the_permalink();
echo '">';
echo the_title();
echo '</a></li>'; 
endwhile;
echo '</ul>'; 
}
wp_reset_query();




return ob_get_clean(); }

//this will generate a shortcode function to be used on your site [seriesposts]

Upvotes: 1

KregHEk
KregHEk

Reputation: 462

You can use 'category_name' in parameters. http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

Note: The category_name parameter needs to be a string, in this case, the category name.

Upvotes: 2

tim
tim

Reputation: 271

'category_name'=>'this cat' also works but isn't printed in the WP docs

Upvotes: 27

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