Hi All
For anyone that wants to display their own custom search results within different areas of their website the code is as follows;
$GLOBALS['limitSearch'] = 12; <-- how many results to show $GLOBALS['galleryblockstop']=3; <-- how many columns $GLOBALS['query_string_new'] = "cat=27"; <-- see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
then display the results using
echo $PPTDesign->GALLERYBLOCK();
thank for your hint that lead to this solution
thanks
JAmes
This is excellent, thank you very much