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<\/a>\nTo show recent posts from a specific category or categories on any page, Go to your theme folder, and put the below code at the end of functions.php file.<\/p>\n
\r\n<?php function w3b_recents_post() { \r\n ob_start(); \r\n $args = array(); \r\n $args['cat'] = 1; \r\n $args['posts_per_page'] = 5; \r\n $args['paged'] = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1; \r\n $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); \r\n if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {\r\n\t\techo '<div class="w3b_cat_posts">';\r\n\t\twhile ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {\r\n\t\t\t$the_query->the_post();\r\n\t\t\techo '<div class="w3b_post">';\r\n\t\t\techo '<h3 class="post_title"><a href="'.get_the_permalink().'" rel="bookmark">'.get_the_title().'<\/a><\/h3>';\r\n\t\t\techo '<div class="entry_content">';\r\n\t\t\tthe_excerpt();\r\n\t\t\techo '<\/div>';\r\n\t\t\techo '<\/div>';\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t\techo '<\/div>';\r\n\t\t\/* Restore original Post Data *\/\r\n\t\twp_reset_postdata();\r\n\t} else {\r\n\t\techo "No Post Found...";\r\n\t}\r\n\t\r\n\treturn ob_get_clean();\r\n}\r\n\r\nadd_shortcode( 'w3b_recents_post', 'w3b_recents_post' );\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\nNow we will discuss the above code line by line…<\/p>\n
\n- We have created a function with function name w3b_recents_post<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- Ignore ob_start function. We will discuss it later.<\/li>\n
- Line 3 to 6 we have defined parameters for the query function, for more parameters read this<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Line 7, we created an object of class\u00a0
WP_Query<\/code>.\u00a0 It will execute a Mysql query.<\/li>\n- Line 8, We check if the MySQL query returned any posts According to the given parameters. If yes then we printed a div container for the post.<\/li>\n
- Line 10, We run while loop for all the returned posts, And assign all post data to global $post variable by calling
'$the_query<\/code>->the_post()' <\/code>function.<\/li>\n- Inside the while loop, we print some HTML post title in an h3 tag by calling,
get_the_title()<\/code>.<\/li>\n- And then call ‘
the_excerpt()<\/code>‘ To show post excerpt, If you want to show full post then replace this function with the_content()<\/code><\/li>\n- \u00a0After ‘While loop’ we must call,\u00a0
wp_reset_postdata()<\/code> Which will restore the original post data.<\/li>\n- In the ‘Else’part of the ‘if condition’, if no post returned, we will print some message like “No Post found….”.<\/li>\n
- \u00a0 At the end of the function, we have to call ‘
return<\/code> ob_get_clean().<\/code><\/li>\n- Use this shortcode
[w3b_recents_post]<\/code> in any page or post to show recent post from a specific category.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nOb_start And ob_get_clean<\/h3>\n
WordPress shortcode need to return value, But as you can see we have a lot of HTML. The first way is to assign all HTML to a variable and then return at the end. but it will look messy. So we printed all HTML using “echo” statement.<\/span> And used ob_Start to capture the output. it means nothing will be printed.<\/p>\nThe function ob_get_clean get the output buffer and which will be returned by the return statement. and then it will delete output buffer.<\/p>\n
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Hope this article will help you in showing recent posts from a specific category. If got any issues when using this code, Please let us know in the below comment section. We will try our best to help you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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