Get Posts From a Category

$homeposts = yourtheme_get_posts( 'post', array( 'category_name' => 'name_of_the_category', 'posts_per_page' => 1  ), 'homepage' );

foreach ( $homeposts->posts as $homepost ) {
  
  // process each post here

}

/**
	 * Returns a post object of the requested post type
	 *
	 * @param 	string 		$post 			The name of the post type
	 * @param   array 		$params 		Optional parameters
	 * @return 	object 		A post object
	 */
	public function yourtheme_get_posts( $post, $params = array(), $cache = '' ) {

		$return = '';
		$cache_name = 'posts';

		if ( ! empty( $cache ) ) {

			$cache_name = '' . $cache . '_posts';

		}

		$return = wp_cache_get( $cache_name, 'posts' );

		if ( false === $return ) {

			$args['post_type'] 				= $post;
			$args['post_status'] 			= 'publish';
			$args['order_by'] 				= 'date';
			$args['posts_per_page'] 		= 50;
			$args['no_found_rows']			= true;
			$args['update_post_meta_cache'] = false;
			$args['update_post_term_cache'] = false;

			$args 	= wp_parse_args( $params, $args );
			$query 	= new WP_Query( $args );

			if ( ! is_wp_error( $query ) && $query->have_posts() ) {

				wp_cache_set( $cache_name, $query, 'posts', 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS );

				$return = $query;

			}

		}

		return $return;

	} // get_posts()