Title: New to PHP/WordPress, Help!!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# New to PHP/WordPress, Help!!

 *  [lduvall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lduvall/)
 * (@lduvall)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-to-phpwordpress-help/)
 * I am trying to list out 2 categories worth of posts. So tab one will be Students
   with posts of the students category. The second tab will be Staff Faculty with
   posts of the staff faculty category. I have this working with the help of WP 
   UI. It displays the tabs with the posts as accordion items.
 * I need this to display only the items with the current date as the post date.
   I also need these to open as a dialog instead of accordion items.
 * Can someone please help? I feel like there is a function I could write to make
   this work, but I am completely lost. Here is the current page’s code as it stands
   now.
 *     ```
       <div class="announce">
       <h1 class="announceHeading">Announcements </h1>
       </div>
       <div>[wptabs style="wpui-custom" mode="horizontal"][wptabtitle]Faculty & Staff[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent][wptabposts type="accordion" style="wpui-redmond" effect="slide" mode="horizontal" number="30" cat="6"][/wptabcontent][wpdialog style="wpui-custom" auto_open="false" openlabel="Submit an Announcement" width="700" height="650" post="190" modal="true"][wptabtitle]Students[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent][wptabposts type="accordion" style="wpui-redmond" effect="slide" mode="horizontal" number="30" cat="5"][/wptabcontent][wpdialog style="wpui-custom" auto_open="false" openlabel="Submit an Announcement" width="700" height="650" post="190" modal="true"][/wptabs]</div>
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-to-phpwordpress-help/)
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