Custom WP query & recent/old posts

@blondhishnet

I see multiple queries. Would you mind posting just the code that is giving the problem?

Not sure if you have covered this yet, and if you have please ignore: Sometimes what I do is if a query is being troublesome is remove all other queries that are being called. Sometimes multiple queries give problems.

<?php //query_posts('paged='.$paged);
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
   $wp_query = new WP_Query();
   $wp_query->query('showposts=5'.'&paged='.$paged);
?>

Not sure what is going on there. Am I the only one that thinks this looks odd? Is the double ‘paged’ variable part correct?

It was moderated as it was too long. Posted in a pastebin – https://pastebin.com/PKhdEwYf

@design_dolphin – the custom query was the one I found in the tutorials.

However, I may have to do a fresh home page with the normal loop query and use another method. I am trying to see if I can do this.

Anyone who solves this, I will blog your solution and give you credit (linky love) at WPAddict.net

Thanks!

Here was my solution. Started with the first posts for the most recent with the normal Loop. Then, I did 2 different category loops. Here is an example of one of them:

<?php $recent->query('cat=38&showposts=3'); ?>
<?php while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post(); ?>

<b><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></b>	

          			<p class="aligndiku"><?php if ( function_exists( 'get_the_image' ) ) get_the_image(); ?></p><?php the_content_limit(130, ""); ?>							<?php the_content_limit(120, ""); ?>

        	<div style="border-bottom:1px dotted #94B1DF; margin-bottom:10px; padding:0px 0px 10px 0px; clear:both;"></div>

	<?php endwhile; ?>