feeding custom posts onto template on wordpress

Question

I am looking to feed a custom post type onto a custom template. I basically want a few sub sections with custom (seperate) post types on the backend panel feed out onto a page, like a news, blog, testimonials kind of thing.

I think have the right idea but I believe I am going around this wrong. Please forgive me, as I do not normally work on wordpess. I basically want (let's say the news page) to feed all the posts in the custom post type "news". I have a blog page linked to a template that looks like so -

 <?php
    /*
    Template Name:News*/
    ?>
    <?php get_header(); ?>
    <ul id="News">
    <?php global $post; query_posts( 'post_type=newst&orderby=ID&order=desc' ); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <li>

    <div class="fea_del">
        <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
        <p><?php the_field('post_content',$post->ID); ?></p>
        <a <?php $p=get_permalink( $post->ID ); ?> href="<?php echo $p; ?>"class="entire_job">SEE ENTIRE ARTICLE</a>
    </div>
    </li>
     <?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>
    </ul>
    <?php get_footer(); ?>

I have the [display-posts] plugin in my blog page and just have [display-posts] in the body in hopes it would just feed in all the posts in blog. I've been banging my head against this for a while with no success, I don't work in wordpress much so I'm a bit in the dark here.

Answer 1

You have to pass the $args array to WP_Query, try:

$args = array( 'post_type' => 'news', 'order' => 'desc' );
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
    the_title();
    //rest of you code
endwhile;