Code help for sorting specific category posts by custom field

  • Resolved Daniella

    (@ellaj)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    I created a template to only list posts in the ‘Entertainment’ category. I wanted to list about 3 posts per page and then have the next button at the bottom. The posts have to be sorted in a certain order so I created a custom field. The following code is only listing the first post without the Next button. 

    <?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="full-content">

        <div class="breadcrumbs">
<?php
if(function_exists('bcn_display'))
{
	bcn_display();
}
?>
</div>
 <?php query_posts('cat=3&posts_per_page=3'); ?>
<?php query_posts('meta_key=ent_order&meta_compare=<=&meta_value=100&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC'); ?>
	<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="clearfloat">

	<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>

	<?php if ( in_category('3') ) { ?>
           <div class="post-cat-three">
 <?php } else { ?>
           <div class="post">
 <?php } ?>

		<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
</div>
		<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>

	</div>

	<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

	</div>

<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php posts_nav_link('','','&laquo; Previous Entries') ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php posts_nav_link('','Next Entries &raquo;','') ?></div>
</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

    Any ideas?
    Thank you!

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  • I have not done what you are doing before. But you have query_posts in there twice. Unless something I don’t know about, that doesn’t seem right to me.

    Thread Starter Daniella

    (@ellaj)

    That fixed one of the problems. Thank you!

    What did it fix? Do you need more help? Did you copy over what was in the duplicate query_posts into the other?

    Thread Starter Daniella

    (@ellaj)

    I did copy over what was in the duplicate query posts. Was that the right way to do it?

    Initially I had a template called entertainment.php and a few things were going wrong, especially with page-navi so I deactivated the plugin. Another problem I was having is that the next page link wasn’t working…it would just refresh the current page.

    What I ended up doing was renaming the template category-3.php and I got it to work but haven’t activated page-navi yet. I would like to know why it worked when I renamed the template.

    I have a lot to learn. ??

    Thanks for your help.

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