I’m very new to word press having only installed it on the weekend, I’m fine with HTML & CSS but PHP & WordPress is alien to me.
I’m trying to display a post from a specific category that changes every day, i’ve searched everywhere and found the below code whihc works to a point.
I just cant seem to get it to choose from a category number?
Any help or explanation would be much appreciated.
<?php
if ( false === ( $totd_trans_post_id = get_transient( 'totd_trans_post_id' ) ) ) {
$args = array('numberposts' => 1, 'orderby' => 'rand');
$totd = get_posts($args);
$midnight = strtotime('midnight +1 day');
$timenow = time();
$timetillmidnight = $midnight - $timenow;
echo $midnight;
echo ",".$timenow;
set_transient('totd_trans_post_id', $totd[0]->ID, $timetillmidnight);
} else {
$args = array('post__in' => array($totd_trans_post_id));
$totd = get_posts($args);
}
foreach( $totd as $post ) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
<div>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
EDIT Thanks for the suggestions but nothing seems to be working with my existing code, it still continues to pick a completey random post from all categories.
