Can WordPress filter a post based on category?

Have you read this? Hope it can help!

Hi Carlla,

That helped quite a bit and believe I can get it to work that way. One question though; how do I target specific areas on the page? For example, I want one blog post to show up in the content area, and the listing post to show up in the sidebar. I’m able to get the listing posts in the sidebar, but as soon as I tell the blog area to only show blogs and not listings, it clears out my sidebar.

Thanks,
Burt

I think I figured out one of my questions. To clear a query and not have it affect my sidebar I put in this at the end:

<?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

Now for some reason–event though I’ve said to show only two posts–it still shows all of them.

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&posts_per_page=2'); ?>

The code shows all instead of 2 per page.

It seems as though you can’t show these two lines together:

<?php
	query_posts('showposts=1');
	query_posts($query_string . '&cat=9');

	if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>

If I take out the category listing the single post works. So I guess now the question is, how do you show a single post and category together?

Hmmm, it seems as though this works better than the above. Can anyone explain why? Is there anyone even reading these posts? ??

<?php query_posts('category_name=blog&showposts=2'); ?>

If you call the query_posts twice you are overwriting the query, making a new Loop. Only the second query will works.

when you want to add parameters just add a "&" between them
eg: category_name=blog&showposts=2&author=2