wp retreving custom post loop

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$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'portfolio', 'cat' => 5, // Whatever the category ID is for your aerial category 'posts_per_page' => 10, 'orderby' => 'date', // Purely optional - just for some ordering 'order' => 'DESC' // Ditto ) ); while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?> Couple of things to consider as well : 1) is your custom post type registered to use the built in categories or is it a custom taxonomy that it's using? If the former then the above should work, if the latter then you would need to use 'your-taxonomy-name'=>'your-taxonomy-term' in place of the cat=>5 parameter http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters 2) Do you have any other loops running on the page? If so they will need <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> after them in order for subsequent loops  http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_reset_query