Grab 5 latest posts from custom post type ‘announcements’

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I have a custom post type announcements which obviously holds posts with weekly announcements.

In my theme’s header, I want to create a box which has the following semantics:

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<div id="header-announcements">
    <h3>Announcements</h3>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="post-permalink">Title</a></li>
            <li><a href="post-permalink">Title</a></li>
            <li><a href="post-permalink">Title</a></li>
            <li><a href="post-permalink">Title</a></li>
            <li><a href="post-permalink">Title</a></li>
        </ul>
    <div><a href="#">View More</a></div>
</div>

I know I want to use wp_query() and I’ve found that I should do something similar to

ann-query = wp_query('post_type=announcements&posts_per_page=5');

I know I need to do a foreach, but I haven’t dived deep enough into wordpress to know what to do after the query.

Any help?

Thanks!

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  1. The following should work, but isn’t tested:

    <div id="header-announcements">
<h3>Announcements</h3>
<?php
$queryObject = new WP_Query( 'post_type=announcements&posts_per_page=5' );
// The Loop!
if ($queryObject->have_posts()) {
    ?>
    <ul>
    <?php
    while ($queryObject->have_posts()) {
        $queryObject->the_post();
        ?>

        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
    <?php
    }
    ?>
    </ul>
    <div><a href="#">View More</a></div>
    <?php
}
?>
</div>

  2. You will need to use a foreach loop since you this query give an array of objects, inside this loop you can use the properties of these objects for show the data. By example you can use:

    $object->post_title, $object->post_content, $object->url