get posts by tag to showing in a widget

Question

Hi there dear developers! i make a widget in my wordpress theme to show 5 last video-based posts in that. and my video posts have a 'video' tag. how i can query that posts by tag to showing there? thanks.

Answer 1

You might want to go through:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Tag_Parameters

So using tag parameter in WP_Query, you can get posts tagged to 'video' tag.

Use orderby and posts_per_page to get last 5 video posts.

$query = new WP_Query( array( 'tag' => 'video', 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) );
while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post();
//your code to display posts
endwhile;

Haven't tested the code, so watch out for typos.