You have one posts loop (generated through WP_Query()) nested in another (foreach ($posts as $post)), and this is causing the displaying of each post multiple times. 5 times 5, to be exact.
At this point I wouldn’t know what to suggest to replace the code above as I’ve no idea what is important and what isn’t. But you can try whittling it down to:
<div class="entrycat">
<?php $arc_query = new WP_Query('category_name=photos&orderby=post_date&order=DESC&showposts=-1'); ?> <?php while ($arc_query->have_posts()) : $arc_query->the_post(); ?><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php echo $post->post_excerpt; ?></a>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div>
And go from there.
How would I close that? This is what I have tried putting after the code you suggested:
<?php endforeach; else: ?>
<div class="center">
<h2>Not Found</h2>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
I get page errors for the ‘foreach’ statement, but I can’t seem to find anything that works.
What I gave above is a complete statement or code block. You don’t close it with endforeach or endif because it’s a while statement, hence the endwhile at the end. But if you need a conditional, you can change it to:
<?php if($arc_query->have_posts()) : while($arc_query->have_posts()) : $arc_query->the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php echo $post->post_excerpt; ?></a>
<?php endwhile; else : ?>
<div class="center">
<h2>Not Found</h2>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
I don’t really NEED the conditional, so I just ended it with the while. It worked perfectly. Thank you so much, I appreciate the help. I am pretty good with code but querys are completely strange to me. Thank you.
If you, or anyone could take a look – http://www.gollygolly.com/category/photos/ – That is the page where I am using this code. In IE the photos (excerpts) don’t show up! It’s funny because the source code says that they are there, but nothing is there to see. Any ideas?
