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Chasew

I'm trying to display a list of recent posts from a specific category. I've been scouring all over the interweb looking for solutions, and everything I try only works half way.

No matter what I do, the resulting list displays 6 posts, regardless of what I set it to. Both of the following seem to work, yet they both return 6 posts. At first I thought I must be missing something, but after trying countless different options, and noticing that it's always 6 posts, I'm thinking there's something else at work. Any ideas?

<ul>
<?php query_posts('category_name=portfolio &posts_per_page=4'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</ul>

<?php
   $recentposts = get_posts('numberposts=3&category_name=portfolio');
   foreach ($recentposts as $post) :
       setup_postdata($post); ?>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>

TheDoc

In the first query_posts there should be no spaces after 'portfolio'.

Also, you should be clearing your query_posts with:

<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

Chasew

I noticed the blank space as well but figured that wasn't the problem (at this point my priority is to just get it working).

I'm also very rusty right now, but I don't remember having such issues with simple things like this.

Is this more proper?

<ul>
<?php query_posts('category_name=news&posts_per_page=3'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?><?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
</ul>

Still doesn't work. There's 4 posts in that category and all 4 are listed rather than 3

krang

Try showposts=3 rather than posts_per_page=3

Chasew

PERFECT! That seems to do the trick.

Thanks for the help to both of you!

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