Display both standard posts in a specific category along with a custom post type in a single loop?

Question

I'm building a content slider that needs to show posts from a custom post type called "Features," and also show standard blog posts that are assigned to a "Featured" category. I'd like to do this within a single loop. Can anyone help me put together the query that could handle this?

Answer 1

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

query_posts( array(
        'post_type' => array(
                    'post',
                    'features',

                ),
'category_name' => 'Featured',
                'paged' => $paged )

            );

// have some posts?
if (have_posts()) :
    while (have_posts()) : the_post();

        // the loop

    endwhile;
endif;
?>

Answer 2

Fix paging issues:

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

Query to add in custom post types:

query_posts( array(
        'post_type' => array(
                    'post',
                    'custom_post_type_name'
                ),
                'paged' => $paged ) 
            );

Start the main loop

if (have_posts()) :
    while (have_posts()) : the_post();

            //Post content

    endwhile;
endif;
?>