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wpachilles
wpachilles

Reputation: 1

WP_Query returning unlimited number of posts, showposts and posts_per_page not working

I'm trying to hack a WordPress Theme that uses WP_Query for a "Recent Posts" widget. Currently it is limited to return only a specific Category, while I'd like it to return a limited number of posts from all categories. I have tried and succeeded at this before with other Plugins/Themes. In this case it doesn't work, irrespective of what change I try to implement, I get 4000+ posts in the query.

         <?php $the_query = new WP_Query('cat='.$category.'&showposts='.$postnum);
        while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();?>

What could be the common culprit of not having showposts or post_per_page working correctly as a limiter?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1560

Answers (1)

Nishant
Nishant

Reputation: 916

are you able to get a correct output from your variable $postnum ?

also try using this

$args = array('category_name' => 'my-category-slug', 'posts_per_page' => 3);

<?php query_posts( $args ); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); echo 'content'; endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>

Upvotes: 1

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