So... what I'm trying to do is simple - get the post content for all posts, but only in a given category. Simple - filter the loop using in_category. So I did this (this is actually a stripped version of the loop I used to try to troubleshoot this):
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php
if(in_category('7')) {
the_title();
}
?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<!-- post navigation -->
<?php else: ?>
<!-- no posts found -->
<?php endif; ?>
</div> <!-- main -->
Here's the catch... for category 7 it only returns ONE post (the most recent). For other categories, I get all of the posts in that category. Removing the restriction gives all posts. The posts in category 7 aren't assigned to any other category. Creating a new category and reassigning the posts in category 7 does not work... but creating new posts and assigning them to a new category and then using THAT new category ID does. But twice now it's stopped working.
That code is the entire loop - there's nothing else on the page aside from HTML markup at this point. I can't see why the code wouldn't simply give me all published posts in category 7 (and yes, they are all set to Published and Public). I've got code another page that looks for recent posts in that category and THAT code finds them. I can modify that and use it here, but I'm curious as to what I'm missing here. Thoughts?