[wp-hackers] get list of items in a category

[DD32]

use the get_posts() function or instantiate a new WP_Query() and pass the  
category ID in.
See the "[wp-hackers] Resetting after multiple loops" thread in here last  
week for many arguements as to which to use..

On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:53:05 +1100, Brian Fidler <fidler.brian at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Thanks. I'm putting the PHP directly into my page_news template. I'm just
> trying to use Wordpress's existing conventions. Any help would be great.
>
> thanks!
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:42 PM, DEVCES <devces at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is a plugin that allows you to execute a php script in a post /  
>> page
>>
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/
>>
>> worked for me.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Brian Fidler <fidler.brian at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > This is a simple one but I'm pretty new to WP. I've set up a News
>> category
>> > and have created a special page template for news items. I want to
>> display
>> > a
>> > list of items in the News category, ordered by most recent date first.
>> What
>> > WP function would I use? I'm currently using <?php
>> > get_the_category('News');
>> > ?> but it's not returning anything.
>> >
>> > thanks.
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