Problem with the_exerpt

  • On my blog I’m attempting to run three different areas containing content:

    First, the loop, which I’d like to narrow to one (featured) category. This I’ve been able to do with the following, placed right before the loop:

    <?php query_posts ($query_string . '&cat=4'); ?>

    The second and third contain similar code, on which queries only items from one category, the other which queries items from all categories but one. 

    <ul>
<?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&offset=1&category=3');
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
 ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
 &nbsp;||&nbsp;<span class="date"><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?></span>
 <div class="entry"></div><?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</li>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

    Everything seems to work fine, except the_excerpt, which displays an excerpt of the one post over and over again. (The post is the latest chronological article that is NOT of the category defined in the query_posts call right before the main loop.) Titles and links display and act just fine.

    So the question: how do I get the_excerpt to display an excerpt of the appropriate story (and not repeat)?

    Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • from the codex:

    <?php
 $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=3');
 foreach($lastposts as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
 <?php the_content(); ?>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

    Try adding the setup_postdata($post); into your code in the corresponding place in the code

    Thread Starter gnorb

    (@gnorb)

    It works, thank you! I’d been looking for the answer to this for days.

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