Of course it doesn’t work. What examples are using this code?
Let’s take a look at Category Parameters of WP_Query
There are 5 category parameters:
- cat (int) – use category id.
- category_name (string) – use category slug.
- category__and (array) – use category id.
- category__in (array) – use category id.
- category__not_in (array) – use category id.
There is no category
parameter on that list, so your parameter is unknown and WP_Query
ignores it.
So how should it look?
...
$args = array(
'cat' => 172,
'post_type' => 'post',
'posts_per_page' => 10,
'paged' => $paged
);
...
PS. Also… You shouldn’t use the_title()
in HTML attributes – it won’t get escaped properly. So if the title contains quote character, then it will break your HTML code…