WordPress uses queries to run a loop and show specific data. Whether you want to show 100 posts from the year 2009 or 5 posts from the Movie category, or a combination thereof, you need to build a query to do it.
Let’s welcome Query Posts to the stage.
This plugin adds a widget to your arsonal of widgets, to let you build any query you want.
It hasn’t been updated in quiet some time, but it’s by a very trust WordPress theme designer and plugin developer, Justin Tadlock. So if there’s a problem with it, you can rest assured that he’ll be quick to fix it and publish a new version.
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.