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Update: If I take out 'category'=>3 then it returns just 5 posts. Of course, they’re from all over the place, so it’s pretty useless.

Why is it that the combination of category and numberposts doesn’t work?!

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This is getting worse and worse. Now I can’t access any of the admin pages or the dashboard.

Thank you so much for your help esmi, I’m well on my way to getting it finished 🙂

Currently it’s up at EntertainmentCocktail.com/movies, but there’s still one thing that isn’t working for me:

As you can probably see, I’m trying to have a list of “Recent Film News” on the left underneath the recent reviews box. I’ve managed to include exclusively movie-category news, but for some reason it wont limit it to just 8 articles.

My code for that section:

<ul class="list2">

<?php global $latestnews;

$args = array(
    'numberposts'     => 5,
    'category'        => 3,
    'orderby'         => 'post_date',
    'order'           => 'DESC',
    'post_type'       => 'post',
    'post_status'     => 'publish' );

$latestnews = get_posts($args);
?>

<?php foreach ($latestnews as $post) : setup_postdata($post); { ?>

	<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

<?php } endforeach; ?> </ul>

As you can see, I’ve made sure to use the numberposts tag in the array (set to 5 so I can clearly see a difference when it’s working!) but on the website it’s showing all 9 (current) articles.

What’s going wrong?!

So is there any way of achieving what I’m after?

Even if it’s just a page, would I just need to create a .php template/page and add it as a link that is effectively a hub for all the posts of a category, as well as having it’s own theme by loading a separate CSS file?

I’ve had a look, it just seems like having multiple unique blogs.

As a user experience, I’m aiming for the readers to not realise they have left the original site, and when they are sent to the different sections they only have subtle changes that identify them. All the user details and post details remain unchanged.

This means that the main website will have ALL the posts, while each separate section will have their own category-specific posts (defined by editing the theme files).

If this is possible using WordPress MS, how would I go about doing that, or is it automated in the MS install?