Latest wordpress posts on static website - menu not working anymore

Question

Until now I had the latest Wordpress posts on my static website. All worked fine. For some reason now the menu isn't working anymore. I didn't change the code, so it must be something at the Wordpress end. Maybe the latest update of my theme, I don't know. The static page and menu works fine without the Wordpress code, so it must be something in that code. I hope somebody can shed some light on this. This is the code on the static page:

<?php
require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

<?php
    $args = array( 'numberposts' => 3, 'post_status'=>"publish",'post_type'=>"post",'orderby'=>"post_date");
    $postslist = get_posts( $args );
    foreach ($postslist as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
       <div class="events">
             <p><strong><?php the_date(); ?></strong></p>
           <p><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
           <?php the_content(); ?>
           <?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'full'); ?>
      </div>
<?php endforeach; ?> 

And this is the static page: http://www.tina-turner.nl/news.php

Johanna

Answer 1

I played with the code and found out, that this part is messing with the menu: 'orderby'=>"post_date" When I use this code:

<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 3, 'order'=> 'DESC', 'orderby' => 'title' );
$postslist = get_posts( $args );
foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post); ?> 
    <div class="events">
        <?php the_date(); ?>
        <br />
        <?php the_title(); ?>   
        <?php the_content(); ?>
    </div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

the menu works. The only thing is, that the page doesn't display the latest 3 posts. What can I change in the code to do that? Here is my testpage: http://www.tina-turner.nl/news2.php

Johanna