pulling an archive list by category name

  • Hiya,

    I was just wondering if someone could tell me what I’m doing wrong here. I’d like to pull a limited list of posts from a category by name. This is being displayed on a static front page in a little 3 column bottom item:

    <?php wp_get_archives('title_li=&type=postbypost&category_name=video&limit=5'); ?>

    I figured category_name would work, as it works for a loop query…but apparently not. ??

    Suggestions? I’m sure i’m just missing something obvious.

    Thanks!

    _n

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  • <?php
$cat=get_cat_ID('your category description here');
$catposts=get_posts('cat='.$cat);
if ($catposts) {
  foreach($catposts as $post) {
    setup_postdata($post); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
  <?php  }
}
?>
    Thread Starter nadine00

    (@nadine00)

    Thanks! That worked.

    One last thing though, how would I work a limit into that?

    Use the “showposts” argument. The query_posts() article describes almost all the arguments available to both get_posts and query_posts.

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