ADVICE: QUERY_POSTS( ) WORKS BETTER THAN IN_CATEGORY( )

I posted something earlier titled “Simple Loop Code Not Working Properly”..where no one responded..

The issue was I was trying to display posts from a specific category by using <?php in_category('whatever') ?> and it was only displaying one posts from the category.

The answer??

Don’t use in_category('whatever') when I want to display a specific category. It’s not a good function. It had absolutely no reason not to work for me because I used it for other loop files and it worked fine.

Instead use <?php query_posts('category_name=whatever'); ?>.

It won’t produce the same inconsistencies as <?php in_category('whatever') ?>..

If anyone wants to elaborate on that and has a difference of opinion, I would appreciate it.