Query posts for Specific Categoty! Please Help

Depending upon what you are trying to accomplish exactly, it sounds like you might want to read up on either:

query_posts or

WP_Query

The first one is easier, but the second one is more powerful/flexible. Both provide several examples that can serve as excellent starting places.

Hi Matteo,

Generally, you don’t want to access the WordPress database directly, you’ll want to use abstraction layers. I can’t really think of a situation where query_posts should be used, although I’m sure it’s theoretically there somewhere.

Read up on WP_Query as suggested by Andrew Mills, as that’s the preferred method of creating secondary loops. For your example though, I’d just use get_posts(), a simplified wrapper for WP_Query which will return you an array to work with. If you want a real loop with access to template tags, i.e. the_title(), the_author, etc, use WP_Query.

Ex.

$args = array('category' => 30, 'numberposts' => 5);
$myposts = get_posts($args);

Hi guys,
thanks to replay me!
I need to show the events category divided in:

Today events
Upcoming Events
Events passed

Events it’s a category.
It’s possible with query_posts to?

Thanks to helping me!

I like Andrew Bartel’s suggestion to use get_posts. It has fewer “side effects” than my suggestion to use query_posts.

If you start with this as your foundation:

$args = array('category' => 30, 'numberposts' => 5);
$todayEvents = get_posts($args);

And read up on the time parameters that get_posts/WP_Query uses, you might come up with something like this for today’s events:

$today = getdate();

$args = array('category' => 30, 'numberposts' => 5, 'year=' . $today["year"] . '&monthnum=' . $today["mon"] . '&day=' . $today["mday"]);

$todayEvents = get_posts($args);

Start with that and make sure it meets your needs first. Then, go check out the “Return posts from the last 30 days” section of the documentation link I sent you. You’ll see an example there that should help you get the Events Passed part figured out.

Thanks so much! ??