I've been having a look at wordpress and I cant work out how to get certain posts to show in certain areas of the site

 

I've named a catorgory and all posts in there I want to show in just one area

 

I want to do this 3 times in all

 

I'll carry in searching Its probably something really simple but this is first time I've looked at word press so plodding along with a bit of trial and error at the moment

 

thanks

What do you mean by just one area? Do you have an example link, or a photoshop mockop/wireframe?

 

Most likely, what you're looking for is the Wordpress loop, which is what gets each article. You can loop through articles as many times as you'd like on a page, each time passing different filters.

 

You can read more here, but basically for example what you can do ( this will display an unordered list with 10 latest posts from the category with the ID of 2. you can also identify the category by its slug by changing category_id=2 to category_name=tutorials )is have one loop go through category 3:

 

<ul>
<?php query_posts('category_id=2&posts_per_page=10'); ?>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

 <li><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title(); ?> <small><?php the_date('l F jS, Y'); ?></small></a></li>

 <?php endwhile; else: ?>

 <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>

<?php endif; ?>

</ul>

 

And you can loop through another category (category 3), by changing the first line of PHP to:

 

<?php query_posts('category_id=3&posts_per_page=10'); ?>

 

Hope this helps!

Brilliant just what I wanted Cheers Empek

 

What do you mean by just one area

 

I should have said I had a div with h3 tag and paragraph that I wanted to insert the title and the post into

 

with your help I've managed it

 

Thanks again

Great! You're very welcome!