The best way to include lists of posts within a page?

  • Resolved bencharity

    (@bencharity)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    I am creating a page that has 5 main divs. Each div will contain a list of every post that pertains to that section.

    So the ‘Restaurants’ div will contain a link to every post about a restaurant… etc.

    My question is, what is the best way to do this? I was thinking that I would use blog categories to separate the posts, and I would like the post snippets to display the title, maybe an image (not necessary), and a snip of the text (20-30 words). This would be in a two column layout, about 350px wide each.

    What is the best way to do this? Is there a tag to call a category with a snip of the post? This will be hard coded in the template rather than in the post if it matters.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Thread Starter bencharity

    (@bencharity)

    For anyone else looking, this displays the posts in list form:

    <ul>
<?php
 $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=5&order=ASC&orderby=date&category=7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24');
 foreach ($postslist as $post) :
 setup_postdata($post);
 ?> 

<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

 <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

    This displays 2 posts from category 7 with the title and an excerpt:

    <?php
query_posts('showposts=2&cat=7');
while(have_posts()) : the_post();
?>

	<div>
		<h5><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h5>

		<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

	</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
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