Everything's kinda borked, let's see if we can figure out why.

Edit, 3:25pm: My slightly unconventional use of The Loop came back to bite me in the ass.

It turns out that I should have been using query_posts() before my call to have_posts() all along, and upgrading from 2.5 to 2.5.1 finally prevented me from getting away with it.

On the upside, though, figuring out the extra parameters for query_posts() means I have finally, /finally/ nailed the goddamn "Why does WordPress make it so fucking difficult to show the [n] most recent posts in category [x]?" issue.

The solution?

query_posts('category_name=fnord&showposts=10');

Praise Cthulhu. WordPress is getting closer to useful by the day.

Posted on Monday, April 28th, 2008 at 11:05 am. Filed under Internal. Tagged with b0rk b0rk b0rk, codewrangling, WordPress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.