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Posted by David Goncalves
David Goncalves
3,417 Points

How do I use this method to display the recent posts from my custom post type? Like the portfolio posts in your example.

Wordpress Theme Development

1 Answer

Vince Brown
Vince Brown
16,249 Points
Vince Brown
Vince Brown
16,249 Points

Hey David, I don't know exactly what method you are referring to in the lesson but it sounds like you want to run a loop over a custom post type. To achieve this we are going to make a new instance of WP_Query.

<?php


  // These are the arguments for your new wp query you are creating
  $loop_args = array (
    'post_type' => 'your-post-type',
    'posts_per_page' => 6,    // -1 would show all posts 
  );


  $custom_loop = new WP_Query( $loop_args );


  while ( $custom_loop->have_posts() ) : $custom_loop->the_post(); ?>



     <p> This is where you do your markup you want displayed for each post </p>
     <?php the_title( '<h1 class = "post__title">', '</h1>' );



  <?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>



 <?php // Do not forget to reset query after you are done with loop!

Check out the Codex as well https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query there is a lot of ways to filter the query by cats, taxonomies etc...

Hope this helps!

David Goncalves
David Goncalves
3,417 Points

Hi Vince, thanks for your answer. Sorry that i didn't quite explain myself properly. What I meant was, how can I display the recent posts from my custom post type in the sidebar using widgets? Is it even possible without a plugin? Thanks.