I am a new bie in PHP and presently started learning it. Apologies in this thread if I am wrong anywhere in this thread. Could you please explain the below two statements: <?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=-<? echo $wt_featured; ?>&showposts=12"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?> <?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=<? echo $wt_featured; ?>&showposts=8"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?> I have downloaded a Wordpress theme for my site and I am customizing that now. $wt_featured is meant for one of the 5 categories for the posts in the site and there are two panes displaying in my site with one pane containing posts of $wt_featured and other pane displaying the posts other than $wt_featured. But I wish I want 5 panes with each pane displaying posts of each categories. Is that possible to do? Thanks for the replies in advance.
First statement has a - in front of the $wt_featured and gets 12 posts NOT from the $wt_featured categories. The 2nd gets 8 posts from those categories. To get only posts from a specific category, copy the second one and replace cat=<? echo $wt_featured; ?> with cat=CATEGORY_NUMBER and you can get the category number from admin panel >posts>categories. it should look like cat=8.