haywars

At the moment that code does not work at all.

What I am trying to accomplish is take a category and display all posts from a specific child category and display theses posts in a random order and have them paged with 6 posts displaying on a page. In this form:

<?php global $more;?>
<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query('child_of=16&showposts=6&orderby=rand'.'&paged='.$paged);
while (have_posts()) : the_post();

the code works the way I want except not being able to display a specific category child posts.

For example if I had a category named “Bob” and had a sub category of “jack” and “jill” under “Bob”. I want all the posts from “jack” to be displayed.

Figured it out…phew!

Thanks esmi. Got the code to what I want it to be.

<h1>Top Stories</h1>
  <?php
 $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=3&order=ASC&category=3');
 foreach ($postslist as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <div>
 <h5><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h5> <?php the_date(); ?>
 <?php the_content(__('Read more'));?><div style="clear:both;"></div>
 <?php comments_popup_link('Leave a Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?><br />
 </div>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

Ill change the CSS later on to fit my needs. But I was wondering about the Picture situation, does that have to be added within the CSS? but then it would display the same picture for each post….its kind of a head scratcher.

If it can be done that would be great but I just need to be pointed in the right direction.

Cheers!