Title: Issue With query_posts()?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Issue With query_posts()?

 *  Resolved [faile486](https://wordpress.org/support/users/faile486/)
 * (@faile486)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-query_posts/)
 * I’m trying to display all the posts from a particular category.
 * This is the current code:
 *     ```
       query_posts( 'cat=news' );
   
        if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
         <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" style="font-size: 20px;"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
           <?php the_excerpt() ?>
   
       <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * news is the category slug. When using this code it’s returning every post, not
   the posts in that particular category. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

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 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-query_posts/#post-2931001)
 * A couple of problems:
    1. cat= is Category Number, not Category Slug
    2. `wp_reset_query();` is missing from the end, which will probably mess up your
       current Loop
 * Details on query_posts are here:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts)
 *  Thread Starter [faile486](https://wordpress.org/support/users/faile486/)
 * (@faile486)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-query_posts/#post-2931045)
 * Ah thanks! It should have been query_posts( ‘category_name=News’ );
 * Where does the wp_reset_quuery(); go? After the endif;?

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 * Last reply from: [faile486](https://wordpress.org/support/users/faile486/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-query_posts/#post-2931045)
 * Status: resolved

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