Question

I’m Using WP 3.4.2 , a child theme of twentyeleven. I have created a category called “featured media”.

I want to get and display posts which have this category.
I checked around before coming here, I found variations of the same answer, in forums. Generally I am advised to write:

$args = array('category'=> x); 
get_posts($args);

I don’t know the category id. Some forums have advised me to go to Dashboard–> posts –>categories, find my category and hover over the “Edit” link, and read the category id from the status bar. My browser shows me this address: localhost/myblog/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?action=edit&taxonomy=category&tag_ID=7&post_type=post

This apparently means my category id is 7. The above code returns and empty array. This has become really frustrating for me. I believe the method is correct. Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

Are you setting global $post?

Heres the WordPress example from their website:

 <ul>
<?php
global $post;
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'offset'=> 1, 'category' => 1 );
$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $myposts as $post ) :  setup_postdata($post); ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts