list of post titles in category.php

anyone want a stab at this??

OK I can see I’m not grabbing the attention of the wordpress gurus here ?? so I’ll explain a little more clearly:
(although you may have to look at my site to see what I’m on about!)

In the sidebars, you can list recent posts from categories like this:


<...ul...>
<?php
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=10&offset=0&category=5');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<...li...><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><.../li...>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<.../ul...>


Thats really useful for your main index.

I have made a custom Categories page called “category.php” that is used automatically by wordpress when you click on any of the categories listed on my sidebar navigation ( [url]www.dadako.com[/url] )

In this custom categories page, I have set a bit of code to show you what cat you are in:

<?php $this_category = get_category($cat); ?><?php echo $this_category->cat_name; ?>

Underneath that, I wanted to have a list of the last 30 or so posts in that category, although fictional, take a look at the following code to see how I “think” it should be done:


<...ul...>
<?php
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=30&offset=0&category=$this_category');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<...li...><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><.../li...>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<.../ul...>


Obviously it doesn’t work and I’m not quite sure of the correct syntax. Also at some point I will try to list thumbnails too, not just titles.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think it’ll work if you take out the … in the li and ul tags.

I’m trying to do the very same thing!

I’ve got this code from “how to make your wordpress blog a magazine”, with this code you can get a specific number of posts… Not entirely sure how it should be used to the effect you (and me) are looking for though.

<?php $posts = get_posts( "category=2&numberposts=30" ); ?> <?php if( $posts ) : ?> <?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><?php endforeach; ?><?php endif; ?></div>