Title: Show selected posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Show selected posts

 *  [zwepp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zwepp/)
 * (@zwepp)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-selected-posts/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m wondering if someone could help me with showing selected posts on my frontpage.
   I have no experience using php, css, html or what so ever, but I’m busy learning
   for about 5 hours per day now. I learned a lot, but I still can’t figure out 
   how I can show the posts that I want on my frontpage.
 * My theme automatically show the thumbs (featured image) of a new made post on
   te frontpage. It was easy to switch from random selected posts to ‘sort by latest
   post’ but now I want to show only the posts from a specific category.
 * Category name = 1 in this case.
    Here is my current code, which doesn’t work;
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 * I tried several different types of codes like;
    ‘category’ => 1 ‘cat=1’ ‘category_name
   =1’
 * None of them work and I keep seeing the 5 most recent posts from all the categories
   I have.
 * I also see that my template uses ‘showposts’ for the amount of postthumbs I want
   to see, but in all tutorials I came across the term was ‘numberposts’ which in
   my tepmplate doesn’t work.
 * Please help 🙂

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