Selecting an array of Categories to display

  • Might be a stupid question, but did some browsing around and did not find much on the subject.

    I want a page to load up and display let say only category 1,4,5 and 7
    And perhaps only show those on the side bar. is that possible easily?

    Thank you for your time!!!

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  • You’ll want to use the category__in arguments with the template tag, get_posts() to retrieve those posts.

    Something like this in your sidebar.php:

    <?php
$args = array(
  'category__in' => array(1,4,5,7),
  'showposts' => '10',
  'orderby' => 'ID',
  'order' => 'DESC'
  );
$posts=get_posts($args);
if ($posts) {
foreach($posts as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
?>
<?php the_time('m.d.y') ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

<?php }
}
?>

    Related:
    Stepping Into Template Tags
    Stepping Into Templates
    Template Hierarchy

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