Retrive Posts From Specific Category And Show it on A Template Page

First wee need to create a page template in wordpress. For that create a file called template-category.php in the theme directory and then add the below comment at the top of the file.

template-category.php

<?php
/**
 * Template Name: Category Custom Page
 */
 
?>

Now from the dashboard of the wordpress , create a page where you want to display the posts. Assign our template to this page.

OK, Now its time to Retrive Posts From Specific Category.

We will use WP_Query class to retrive the posts. Suppose we have a category named as ‘ PHP ‘ which posts need to display.

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'category_name' => 'wordpress',
    'posts_per_page' => 5,
);
$arr_posts = new WP_Query( $args );
 
if ( $arr_posts->have_posts() ) :
 
    while ( $arr_posts->have_posts() ) :
        $arr_posts->the_post();
        ?>
        <article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
            <?php
            if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) :
                the_post_thumbnail();
            endif;
            ?>
            <header class="entry-header">
                <h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
            </header>
            <div class="entry-content">
                <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read More</a>
            </div>
        </article>
        <?php
    endwhile;
endif;

In ttha above code we have passed ‘category_name’ => ‘ PHP’. Here ‘PHP’ is the slug of a category/

We can also pass category id instead of category_name.

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'cat' => '4', //we can pass comma-separated ids here
    'posts_per_page' => 5,
);

posts_per_page is the number of posts to fetch from the database. We have used have_posts() method which checks whether posts are available for WordPress loop. If posts are available then we loop through each post and display it.