query_posts, get post by second category

  • Alain

    (@alainotjens)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    In my sidebar I am trying to retrieve a list of posts from a certain category with query_posts. 

    $query = "cat=5&showposts=3";
$posts = query_posts($query);

    This is working well except for posts that are assigned to more than one category.

    For example:
    Post a,b,c are in category 5 and post d is in category 4 and 5.
    Now my query doesn’t return post d.

    Is there a way to make this work?

    By the way these posts with multiple categories do get displayed when queried in the normal loop for example when I use https://www.domainname.com/?cat=5

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  • <?php
$args=array(
  'category__in' => array(4,5),
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  echo 'List of Posts';
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

    For posts that belong to category 4 and 5 only see category__and parameter

    showposts=3

    if your post d with cat=4,5 is number four in the list, it will not show.

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