Displaying posts from a category within a static page

Hi

I’ve not used this plugin, but it sounds like it might do what you want.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/post-teaser/
You would use it with a custom query loop at the bottom of the page. The plugin appears to override the default the_excerpt() code, so you activate it with the_excerpt() but its code runs instead – respects the <!-- more --> tag

<?php
$catPosts = new WP_Query();
$catPosts->query(‘showposts=5&cat=5’); // use your cat ID code
while ($catPosts->have_posts()) : $catPosts->the_post(); ?>
<h3>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<?php the_excerpt();
endwhile; ?>

screwed up the code – should be this

<?php
$catPosts = new WP_Query();
$catPosts->query('showposts=5&amp;cat=5'); // use your cat ID code
while ($catPosts->have_posts()) : $catPosts->the_post(); ?>
  <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
  <?php the_excerpt();
endwhile; ?>

Thanks stvwlf. I had given up on this, and was going to find a less satisfactory workaround. Your help got me to give it another go.

I’ve managed to get something resembling what I want, which, with a little styling, should be just about right.

I used a mixture of antistandard’s solution, found here, and a solution I found in the codex, here.

My code, placed after page.php’s <?php endwhile; endif; ?> looks like this:

<?php query_posts('cat=255');?>
	<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
	<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
	<?php
		// Display content above the more tag
		$more = 0;
		the_content("More...");
	?>

	<?php endwhile; else: endif; ?>

Not sure if that’s the neatest way to do it, but it seems to work.

Oh, I should mention that I had to place the code below outside the loop.

<?php
		// Declare global $more, before the loop.
		global $more;
	?>