[Plugin: Map Categories to Pages] List Pages from Same Category

1) This plugin also provide you a widget using which you can show pages from the same category int he sidebar.

2) You will have to make changes to the code for this. Are you using WP Menus?

Amit, thanks for the quick reply.

1) Is it possible to do this without the widget? I was actually hoping to expand this sidebar use to have one list that shows pages from the same category, and then another list of pages that have a specific category. For example, I was going to create a category called “Featured” and then have a list of featured pages (which may be from other categories than the current page). Is there a line of code that I can add to the theme file to basically list_pages, but add a criteria that it be from a particular category? I could then do both things?

2) The same function discussed above could be used in the menu. I am using the WP Menus (ie drag and drop pages to organize the menus), but was hoping to have an easier way to do this, as it is very difficult if I am reassigning a number of pages from one menu drop-down to another. If there is a call I can add to the theme files for the menu, basically under each of the menu items I would ask it to list_pages with a specific category.

Thanks for any feedback or pointing in the right direction about what code would need to be added to the theme file.

Use this:

<?php
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&category=4,5&orderby=title&order=ASC&post_type=page');
?>
<ul>
         <?php
         foreach($myposts as $post) :
           setup_postdata($post);
         ?>
            <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'page_thumb', true) ) : ?><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'page_thumb', true) ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /> <?php endif; ?><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
         <?php endforeach; ?>
         </ul>

Thanks! This was a great help!

Do you know if it is possible to do the get_posts, but require that the pages be assigned to BOTH categories? In the above example, where you have “category=4,5” it returns any pages that are assigned to either category. I can’t find info on how to indicate that the post must be from both categories.

Also, do you have any insight into why the use of the above code to get the list of related pages seems to break the ability to get custom field values (through get_post_meta) that come after this?

I think I figured out the issue with the fetching of the custom field values… Before the $myposts line, I had to add

global $post;
$tmp_post = $post;

After the endforeach; line, had to add:

<?php $post = $tmp_post; ?>

Still haven’t been able to figure out how to require two categories, so if anyone has any advice, that would be appreciated.

Okay, I am talking to myself tonight, but figured I would post the solution in case anyone else needs to require two posts. Here is the final version of what pulls only posts that are in both categories AND does not break the post id value in $post…

<?php
global $post;
$tmp_post = $post;
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&category=4&orderby=title&order=ASC&post_type=page');
?>
<ul>
         <?php
         foreach($myposts as $post) :
           setup_postdata($post);
         ?>
<?php if ( in_category('5') ) { ?>
            <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'page_thumb', true) ) : ?><img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'page_thumb', true) ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /> <?php endif; ?><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php } ?>
         <?php endforeach;
          $post = $tmp_post; ?>
         </ul>