Reply To: Dynamic creation of category selector

• jarvis

• October 22, 2021 at 12:45 pm

Hmmm…

I’ve done it that you can select the category (using the taxonomy field > categories).

Then had a field to set the number of posts to return:

<?php
global $wp_query;
$paged = get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

$post_category = get_field('post_category');
$number_of_posts = get_field('number_of_posts');

$args = array(
	'post_type'			=> 'post',
	'post_status'		=> 'publish',
	'posts_per_page'	=> $number_of_posts,
	'paged'				=> $paged,
	'cat'		       	=> $post_category,
	'fields'			=> 'ids'	
);

$wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
if ($wp_query->have_posts()) :
	while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
		<?php include( locate_template( 'includes/loop.php', false, false ) ); ?>
	<?php endwhile; 
endif; wp_reset_query(); 

Not sure how I’d then select the posts themselves. My only thought would be adding a tickbox to the posts themselves called ‘featured post’, you then amend the query to return only the posts in that category that have been ticked.

Seems a little long winded though 🙁