Comments on: Display a selected number of posts from one category in the sidebar

By: NewYorkMustangs.com

NewYorkMustangs.com — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:40:24 +0000

Thank you for this, it works great. I’m trying to add a thumbnail from each post, but I can’t seem to get it to load them properly, only the last post on the list. This is the code

<.?php $postlist = get_posts(‘category=5&numberposts=5′);
foreach ($postlist as $post) .>
<.?php $thumb_id = get_post_thumbnail_id(); ?.>
<.li>”.>
<.?php the_title(); ?.>
<.br /.>
<.?php the_post_thumbnail($thumb_id); ?.>
<./a><./li.>
<.?php endforeach; ?.>

By: debater

debater — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:15:43 +0000

In my browser, your code is reflected as having a “puzzled” emoticon ;? which is obviously not what you intended (unless your php accepts cute smiley faces as valid syntax!). Would it be possible to put this as a text file download link, so that the formatting is correct? It does not work on my site – it just doesn’t display anything at all.

By: Michael Sacca

Michael Sacca — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:14:50 +0000

I’d been searching for this script all night. Thank you for posting it!

By: rik

rik — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:31:46 +0000

I added the hard coded the above code into my template index.php
it works great but it changes the header titles of all my pages to the title of the first post in the list?

any ideas

By: rik

rik — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:22:37 +0000

I used this code and it works great. with one exception. For some reason it takes the title of the post ( i only have 1 post in the catagory i have selected for use with this code) and places it in to the page title. So now every page on my site has the same title as the post in the side bar?

By: nomercy

nomercy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:30:37 +0000

Thank you Miriam … may I have permission to write back on my blog in my language

Great tips …

By: rach

rach — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:04:18 +0000

Hey Miriam – I used the code in my topbar and it worked perfectly. It was exactly what I needed and was so happy to find it after I spent hours searching for such a solution. Thanks for the post.

By: SKULL 1 : Robert Sample

SKULL 1 : Robert Sample — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:40:47 +0000

[...] displays the latest three posts from your News category, or have links to your latest podcasts. In a previous post, I gave the code that would display the latest posts from a specific category in the sidebar. [...]

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:36:56 +0000

Are you familiar with the Advanced Category Excluder plugin? I use it to keep some categories off my front page, and of course the one I want to show in the sidebar is also the category I don’t want on my front page.

Do you know of anyway I can not have posts show up on the front page but show up on the side bar using this method?

Thanks!

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:36:03 +0000

@Noel – Sorry about the hidden code. Comments here can misbehave quite a bit. As for the problem with your code – I can’t see anything wrong with it. Sorry.