Title: Retrieving category specific posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Retrieving category specific posts

 *  [jwbernin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwbernin/)
 * (@jwbernin)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieving-category-specific-posts/)
 * I’m attempting to retrieve posts only from a specific category via a get_posts()
   call, but I am retrieving posts from other categories from this call. I’ve got
   the call as follows:
 * `$lastposts = get_posts('category=general');`
 * How do I format the call so as to retrieve only the posts from the given category–
   and to retrieve no posts at all if there are no posts in that category?

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 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)
 * [get_posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/get_posts/)

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieving-category-specific-posts/)
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