Display All Posts Related to a Single Category on one page.

  • Resolved MonkeeWork

    (@monkeework)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hello – I’m very much a newbie and have done a few Lynda.com tutorials and just easing my toes into the water as far as WordPress goes. I am attempting to make a page which will list all posts related to a single category.

    I added the following line of code to my custom page template which i am working on and I received an error which i’m hoping someone will help me to resolve.

    Category Definitions/setup
    Name: Profile
    Slug: profile
    Parent: none
    Description: none

    Code added
    if( is_page( 'profile' ) { query_posts( array( 'category_name' => 'profile' ) ); }

    The error message
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/maxster/marvel-adventures.com/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/custom-showCategoryProfiles.php on line 23

    This is my full code:

    <?php   #custom-showCategoryProfiles.php
/**
 * Template Name: Custom Show Category Profiles Only
 * Description: Page template shows all posts
 *   belonging to one category only (profiles)
 *   based on page;
 *
 * Template displays all posts to a specific category.
 *
 * SEE: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/06/wordpress-custom-page-templates/
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Fifteen
 * @since Twenty Fifteen 1.0
 */

get_header();

echo '<div id="primary" class="content-area">
	<main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">';

	#get all posts from one category
         #line 23
	if( is_page( 'profile' ) {
		query_posts( array( 'category_name' => 'profile' ) );
	}
        #line 27
	#Display posts.
	while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

		#Include the page content template.
		get_template_part( 'content', 'page' );

		#If comments are open/have at least one comment,
		#load up the comment template.
		if ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) :
			comments_template();
		endif;

	// End the loop.
	endwhile;

echo '</main><!-- .site-main -->
</div><!-- .content-area -->';

get_footer();

    Again, I wish to stress that I am very new to all of this, HTML, CSS, WORDPRESS, Attempting to create a template, etc. I’m very much a newbie in every sense of the word. Thank you to anyone who can help me to resolve my error. I have looked my script over and i don’t see/can’t find any mismatched synstatical errors.

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  • You have an open ( without a corresponding closing ). Change ) { to ) ) {.

    Thread Starter MonkeeWork

    (@monkeework)

    Thank you very much for your excellent help and keen understanding Marious. I was able to resolve my issue very quickly and get the initial result I was hoping for and I learned a lot about working with WordPress in the process.

    Below is the resolved code for anyone whom this might be of benefit too.

    Cheers!

    <?php   #custom-showCategoryProfiles.php
/**
 * Template Name: Custom Show Category Profiles Only
 * Description: Page template shows all posts
 *   belonging to one category only (profiles)
 *   based on page;
 *
 * Template displays all posts to a specific category.
 *
 * SEE: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/06/wordpress-custom-page-templates/
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Fifteen
 * @since Twenty Fifteen 1.0
 */

get_header();

echo '<div id="primary" class="content-area">
	<main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">';

	#get all posts from one category
				 #line 23
	if( is_page( 'profiles' )) {
		query_posts( array( 'category_name' => 'profile' ) );
	}
				#line 27
	#Display posts.
	while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

		#Include the page content template.
		get_template_part( 'content', 'page' );

		#If comments are open/have at least one comment,
		#load up the comment template.
		if ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) :
			comments_template();
		endif;

	// End the loop.
	endwhile;

echo '</main><!-- .site-main -->
</div><!-- .content-area -->';

get_footer();

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