Usings Pods to loop through a number of posts outside the loop (in this case a custom pod called "links" ) and displaying them by category

Pods_Loop-through-post-type-by-category

<?php
	// Declare paremeters of Pods
	// Limiting by 4, and looping through the category slug called "for-parents"
    	$params = array(
		'limit' => 4,
		'where' => "category.slug = 'for-parents'"
	);
	// Create a variable called $links and assign that my pod called "link" pulling in the parameters from above
	$links = pods('link', $params );
	// If there are more than 0 links, let's display them!
	if ( $links->total() > 0) { 
		while ( $links->fetch() ) {
		    // Creating some variables from these fields I've defined
			$text = $links->field('text');
			$url = $links->field('url');
			$target = $links->field('target');
			// In this case, I only want to write the $target variable if it has content. This is for _blank, _self, etc.
			if ( $target != '') {
				echo "<a href='$url' target='$target'>$text</a>";	
			} else { 
				echo "<a href='$url'>$text</a>";	
			}
		} // while loop 
	} // if conditional
?>