How To Display The Posts From Specific Category Using Shortcode
To display posts from a specific category using shortcode in WordPress, you can follow these code, add these codes in the function.php file.
//Post display shortcode from specific category
// function that runs when shortcode is called
function wpb_demo_shortcode() {
$category_id = 32; // Replace 3 with the ID of the category you want to display
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'category__in' => $category_id ) );
if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
$query->the_post();
$result .= '<div class="item">';
$result .= '<div class="itemname1">' . get_the_title() . '</div>';
$result .= '<div class="item-desc">' . wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), 40, '...' ) . '</div>';
$result .= '<a href="'. get_the_permalink() .'">' .'Read More'. '</a>';
$result .= '</div>';
}}
wp_reset_postdata();
// Output needs to be return
return $result;
}
// register shortcode
add_shortcode('postdisplay', 'wpb_demo_shortcode');
