http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Thu, 23 May 2013 23:59:03 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/list-most-recent-post-from-5-categories-with-thumbnail#post-7785 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:12:13 +0000 Chris 7785@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>if you follow the example on <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts," rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts,</a> it should work. These examples are using the $post array also used by the Get-The-Image Plugin.</p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/list-most-recent-post-from-5-categories-with-thumbnail#post-7746 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:10:34 +0000 versatilist 7746@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I'm trying to pull the most recent post title and post image thumb from 5 categories (out of ~20) in a specific order. This list is in addition to another loop on the page (the main loop), or the single post/page.</p> <p>I need to pull the image thumbnail from that post, but NOT using any special fields (ala get-the-image plugin).</p> <p>Here is what I have so far (starting with 4):</p> <p> // Cat 1307<br /> echo '&lt;li id="hcol4" class="header-post"&gt;';<br /> $posts_hcol4 = get_posts( "category=1307&#38;numberposts=1" );<br /> if( $posts_hcol4 ) {<br /> foreach( $posts_hcol4 as $post_n4 ) {<br /> setup_postdata( $post_n4 );</p> <p> echo '&lt;a href="';<br /> echo (get_permalink($post_n4-&gt;ID));<br /> echo '" title="Permanent Link to ';<br /> echo (get_the_title($post_n4-&gt;ID));<br /> echo '"&gt;' ;<br /> echo (get_the_title($post_n4-&gt;ID));<br /> echo '';<br /> }<br /> }<br /> echo '';</p> <p> // Cat 1303<br /> echo '&lt;li id="hcol5" class="header-post"&gt;';<br /> $posts_hcol5 = get_posts( "category=1303&#38;numberposts=1" );<br /> if( $posts_hcol5 ) {<br /> foreach( $posts_hcol5 as $post_n5 ) {<br /> setup_postdata( $post_n5 );<br /> /*print get_the_image(array('custom_key' =&gt; array('post_image_value'), 'default_size' =&gt; 'thumbnail', 'image_scan' =&gt; true, 'default_image' =&gt; get_bloginfo( 'template_url' ) . '/files/2009/11/sample.jpg', 'width' =&gt; '120', 'height' =&gt; '100', 'post_id' =&gt; $post_n5-&gt;ID));*/<br /> echo '&lt;a href="';<br /> echo (get_permalink($post_n5-&gt;ID));<br /> echo '" title="Permanent Link to ';<br /> echo (get_the_title($post_n5-&gt;ID));<br /> echo '"&gt;' ;<br /> echo (get_the_title($post_n5-&gt;ID));<br /> echo '';<br /> }<br /> }<br /> echo '';</p> <p>Unfortunately the image is using the Global post variable. If I set the variable (post_id) only the first set works, all others use that same variable. It also seems like I should be able to do this with one query...</p> <p>I'm using the most recent version of thematic and a variation of thematicfeaturesite.</p> <p>Any ideas? </p>