Category Display (HELP!!)

display all posts

All posts under a certain category? or,
All content of each post under a certain category?

If you mean ‘All posts under a certain category’,
create ‘page-hound-group.php’ and write below code.

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<div id="content">
<?php
 query_posts('cat=467&showposts=-1');
 if (have_posts()) :
  while(have_posts()) :
    the_post();
?>
 /* write here the rest of your code */
<?php
  endif;
  wp_reset_query();
?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

If you mean ‘All content of each post under a certain category’,
create ‘page-hound-group.php’ and paste your all code.
And use
<?php the_content(); ?>
instead of

<?php if(function_exists('the_content_limit')) { ?>
<?php the_content_limit(350);  ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<p> Activate the limitpost plugin to see the post contents ! </p>
<?php } ?>

If I understand the problem correctly, you want the akc-group/hound-group page to display posts in the Hound category.

The simplest way I know to do that is to use the Page Links To plugin.

1. Install and activate the plugin. It will add a new section to the bottom of the Add/Edit Page screen.
2. Edit the page you want to display a category.
3. Scroll down to the ‘Page Links To’ section at the bottom.
4. In the ‘Point to this URL’ box, enter ‘https://yoursiteurl/?cat=14’, replacing yoursiteurl with your own URL, and 14 with the category id you want that page to display.
5. Click ‘Update Page’.

That should be all you need.

Thank you very much Kz and vtxyzzy!

So Kz, I want to do the first option that you gave me. In the first code, what code should I put where you wrote “/* write here the rest of your code */”? And how does that code know display the “hound category”?

Thanks you very much for your help
-Luke

One caution, if you follow the approach Kz gave, you will need to create a new file for every category. That isn’t especially hard after you do the first one, but I think it is extra work.

If you use the Page Links To plugin, you only need to add the URL to each of your category pages.

/* write here the rest of your code */

lines from 30 to 67 of the code for the Archives page on your first post.

Alright so my code now looks like this on the page-hound-group.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<div id="content">
<?php
 query_posts('cat=467&showposts=-1');
 if (have_posts()) :
  while(have_posts()) :
    the_post();
?>
 <div class="single" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<div class="title">

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); 

?></a></h2>

</div>
<div class="date"><span class="author">Posted by <?php the_author(); ?></span> <span class="clock"> On <?php the_time('F - j - Y'); 

?></span><span class="comm"><?php comments_popup_link('ADD COMMENTS', '1 COMMENT', '% COMMENTS'); ?></span>	</div>	

<div class="cover">
<div class="entry">

<?php if(function_exists('the_content_limit')) { ?>
<?php the_content_limit(350);  ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<p> Activate the limitpost plugin to see the post contents ! </p>
<?php } ?> 

<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

</div>
<?php
  endif;
  wp_reset_query();
?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

But for some reason when I go to https://thecaninedirectory.com/akc-group/hound-group/, I get this message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDIF in /home/content/s/a/m/samhancock24/html/thecaninedirectory/wp-content/themes/splendour/page-hound-group.php on line 34

I really do apologize for my lack of knowledge on this topic, and I really do appreciate you helping me, but do you know how I can solve that problem?

I have a feeling I put the code in wrong, but I’m not sure where i messed up.

Thank you very much
-Luke

use

<?php
  endwhile;
  endif;
  wp_reset_query();
?>

instead of

<?php
  endif;
  wp_reset_query();
?>

Wow you are a genius! It is now displaying the posts, but for some reason they keep going further and further to the right. You can see from this page: https://thecaninedirectory.com/akc-group/hound-group/

Also do you know how I can get it display a picture of the dog like it does on the homepage…If not that’s perfectly fine, you’ve already done a lot for me.

Thank you very much
-Luke

I don’t want to offend anyone, but you really should try the plugin I suggested. I think it will solve your problems.

I looked in to trying that plugin, but it seemed like it would just redirect to the category page. I’m looking for something where I can just display the categories differently on a certain page

OK – I guess I misunderstood what you wanted. Good luck!

I have one other suggestion. If you hard-code the category into the template, you will need a separate templage for each category. If you want to use one template, you can make the changes below. This will let you put a Custom Field called ‘category-to-show’, with a value of the category name, in a page and then use the one template.

From what I can see, you should change this:

<?php
 query_posts('cat=467&showposts=-1');
 if (have_posts()) :

to this:

<?php
$this_cat=get_post_meta($post->ID,'category-to-show',TRUE);
if ($this_cat == "") :
   echo "<h2>This page is missing the 'category-to-show' Custom Field</h2>";
else;
   $args = array('showposts' => 1,
         'category_name' => $thiscat,
       };
   query_posts($args);
   if (have_posts()) :

and change

<?php
  endwhile;
  endif;
  wp_reset_query();
?>

to this

<?php
  endwhile;
  endif;
  endif;
  wp_reset_query();
?>

This will let you add new categories as needed without modifying the template.