Question

Trying to concat these PHP expressions into LI’s but it’s getting rendered as the php first and then the LI’s…

function getVolArchives() {
    query_posts('category_name=volunteerspotlights&showposts=5');
    while (have_posts()) : the_post();          
        echo '<li>' . the_title() . '</li><li>' . the_date('F') . '</li>';
    endwhile;
}

Obviously, it doesn’t work like I thought it should…can I get some help?

What happens is that the TITLE and DATE show up and THEN two blank LI’s… but the answer was already given to me below. I was using the wrong WordPress functions.

Answer 1

You need to use get_the_title() and get_the_date() instead. In WordPress, the get_*() versions of functions RETURN their data. Otherwise WP defaults to outputting the data instead.