Limiting blog snippets in custom recent post feed

  • I have pages that use the existing blog structure of displaying a list of recent pages. I wanted however to also have a custom feed only on certain pages that would be slightly different. I have achieved the majority of this using the PHP Snippets plugi and building out my own PHP doc (attached). The issue I am having is I would like it to only pick up one category (success stories) and be limited to just 4 recent posts and not show the endless run it shows now. Any help would be very gratefully received! Thanks

    https://ceedus.com/cms/?page_id=275

    <style>
.col-620 {
    width: 980px;
}
</style>

<?php get_header(); ?>

        <div id="content-blog" class="grid col-620">

        <?php $options = get_option('responsive_theme_options'); ?>
		<?php if ($options['breadcrumb'] == 0): ?>
		<?php echo responsive_breadcrumb_lists(); ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
<?php
    if ( get_query_var('paged') )
	    $paged = get_query_var('paged');
	elseif ( get_query_var('page') )
	    $paged = get_query_var('page');
	else
		$paged = 1;
		query_posts("post_type=post&paged=$paged");
?> 

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
			<div id="successpost">

            <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

                <div class="post-meta">

                </div><!-- end of .post-meta -->

                <div class="post-entry">
                    <?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
                        <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
                    <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
                        </a>
                    <?php endif; ?>
                     <h5 class="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php printf(__('Permanent Link to %s', 'responsive'), the_title_attribute('echo=0')); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h5>
                    <?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<div class="pagination">' . __('Pages:', 'responsive'), 'after' => '</div>')); ?>
                </div><!-- end of .post-entry -->

                <div class="post-data">
				    <?php the_tags(__('Tagged with:', 'responsive') . ' ', ', ', '<br />'); ?>
					<?php printf(__('Posted in %s', 'responsive'), in_category('news ')); ?>
                </div><!-- end of .post-data -->             

            <div class="post-edit"><?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'responsive')); ?></div>
            </div><!-- end of #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> -->
            </div>
        <?php endwhile; ?> 

<?php endif; ?>
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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Change your query_posts() call to this:

    query_posts( array(
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'paged' => $paged,
  'posts_per_page' => 4,
  'category_name => 'success-stories'
));

    Note the category name value must actually be the slug, so I may not have it quite right. Don’t forget to call wp_reset_query(); after the endwhile;

    Thread Starter jamesgrayking

    (@jamesgrayking)

    Thanks so much for this, it was a huge help! It turns out all I needed was

    <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

    to be at the end and that did all that needed to be done! To limit the blog posts within I was able to simply change the settings in the reading piece of the main wordpress settings as 4 will suffice for any blog feed

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