How to Query Post

Question

On my homepage I have a slider at the top and then three columns below that. I would like to pull the three latest post for a category in each column. So each column will have three post titles and dates for a single category.

Can anyone tell me what the Query would be?

Thanks in advance,

14ner

Answer 1

Try this:

<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 5, 'category' => 1 );
$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $myposts as $post ) :  setup_postdata($post); ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a> - <?php the_date(); ?></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

More info: query_posts()