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I want to display in page the latest post content from a category.

For example, the category foo has the following posts:

• 1. Hello World
• 2. Hello Mars
• 3. Foo bar

Considering Foo Bar the latest article from foo category, its content should be rendered in a page:

<title>
<content>

Where <title> is Foo bar and <content> is the post content.

How can I do this?

I'm struggling to implement the @Pieter's answer. I added these lines in functions.php:

function latest_post() {  
    $args = array(
       'posts_per_page' => 1, // we need only the latest post, so get that post only
       'cat' => '4' // Use the category id, can also replace with category_name which uses category slug
    );

    $str = "";
    $posts = get_posts($args);

    foreach($posts as $post):
       $str = $str."<h2>".$post->title."</h2>";
       $str = $str."<p class='post-content-custom'>".$post->content."</p>";
    endforeach;

    return $str;
}

add_shortcode('latest_post', 'latest_post');

In the page I do:

[latest_post]

However, no error appears, but the post content doesn't appear.

I want to display in page the latest post content from a category.

For example, the category foo has the following posts:

• 1. Hello World
• 2. Hello Mars
• 3. Foo bar

Considering Foo Bar the latest article from foo category, its content should be rendered in a page:

<title>
<content>

Where <title> is Foo bar and <content> is the post content.

How can I do this?

I'm struggling to implement the @Pieter's answer. I added these lines in functions.php:

function latest_post() {  
    $args = array(
       'posts_per_page' => 1, // we need only the latest post, so get that post only
       'cat' => '4' // Use the category id, can also replace with category_name which uses category slug
    );

    $str = "";
    $posts = get_posts($args);

    foreach($posts as $post):
       $str = $str."<h2>".$post->title."</h2>";
       $str = $str."<p class='post-content-custom'>".$post->content."</p>";
    endforeach;

    return $str;
}

add_shortcode('latest_post', 'latest_post');

In the page I do:

[latest_post]

However, no error appears, but the post content doesn't appear.

I want to display in page the latest post content from a category.

For example, the category foo has the following posts:

• 1. Hello World
• 2. Hello Mars
• 3. Foo bar

Considering Foo Bar the latest article from foo category, its content should be rendered in a page:

<title>
<content>

Where <title> is Foo bar and <content> is the post content.

How can I do this?

I'm struggling to implement the @Piter's answer. I added these lines in functions.php:

function latest_post() {  
    $args = array(
       'posts_per_page' => 1, // we need only the latest post, so get that post only
       'cat' => '4' // Use the category id, can also replace with category_name which uses category slug
    );

    $str = "";
    $posts = get_posts($args);

    foreach($posts as $post):
       $str = $str."<h2>".$post->title."</h2>";
       $str = $str."<p class='post-content-custom'>".$post->content."</p>";
    endforeach;

    return $str;
}

add_shortcode('latest_post', 'latest_post');

In the page I do:

[latest_post]

However, no error appears, but the post content doesn't appear.

I want to display in page the latest post content from a category.

For example, the category foo has the following posts:

• 1. Hello World
• 2. Hello Mars
• 3. Foo bar

Considering Foo Bar the latest article from foo category, its content should be rendered in a page:

<title>
<content>

Where <title> is Foo bar and <content> is the post content.

How can I do this?

I'm struggling to implement the @Pieter's answer. I added these lines in functions.php:

function latest_post() {  
    $args = array(
       'posts_per_page' => 1, // we need only the latest post, so get that post only
       'cat' => '4' // Use the category id, can also replace with category_name which uses category slug
    );

    $str = "";
    $posts = get_posts($args);

    foreach($posts as $post):
       $str = $str."<h2>".$post->title."</h2>";
       $str = $str."<p class='post-content-custom'>".$post->content."</p>";
    endforeach;

    return $str;
}

add_shortcode('latest_post', 'latest_post');

In the page I do:

[latest_post]

However, no error appears, but the post content doesn't appear.

I want to display in page the latest post content from a category.

For example, the category foo has the following posts:

• 1. Hello World
• 2. Hello Mars
• 3. Foo bar

Considering Foo Bar the latest article from foo category, its content should be rendered in a page:

<title>
<content>

Where <title> is Foo bar and <content> is the post content.

How can I do this?

I want to display in page the latest post content from a category.

For example, the category foo has the following posts:

• 1. Hello World
• 2. Hello Mars
• 3. Foo bar

Considering Foo Bar the latest article from foo category, its content should be rendered in a page:

<title>
<content>

Where <title> is Foo bar and <content> is the post content.

How can I do this?

I'm struggling to implement the @Piter's answer. I added these lines in functions.php:

function latest_post() {  
    $args = array(
       'posts_per_page' => 1, // we need only the latest post, so get that post only
       'cat' => '4' // Use the category id, can also replace with category_name which uses category slug
    );

    $str = "";
    $posts = get_posts($args);

    foreach($posts as $post):
       $str = $str."<h2>".$post->title."</h2>";
       $str = $str."<p class='post-content-custom'>".$post->content."</p>";
    endforeach;

    return $str;
}

add_shortcode('latest_post', 'latest_post');

In the page I do:

[latest_post]

However, no error appears, but the post content doesn't appear.