what code will make only one category of post show on template page

  • Resolved nohl

    (@nohl)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    Hi all,

    I’m building a couple of template pages.

    I’ve got a site with a bunch of pages. I want to put posts from one category on one page and posts from another category on a second page.

    I tried this code:

    <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php $cat = get_the_category(); $cat = $cat[6]; ?>
		<?php
		query_posts(array(
		'cat'=> $cat->cat_ID,
		'showposts'=>'5',
		) );
		?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
			<?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<span class="post-date" title="Date"><?php the_time('F j, Y') ?></span>
			<span class="post-cath" title="Category"><?php the_category(', ') ?></span>
			<span class="post-comm">
			<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></span>
			<span class="post-edit"><?php edit_post_link('Edit','',''); ?></span>
			<span class="entry"><?php the_content('Read the rest...'); ?></span>
			</div>

			<?php comments_template(); ?>
		<?php endwhile; ?>

    But that shows all posts.

    can someone suggest a better way to select only one category?

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  • don’t make seperate pages for each category.
    where you want all the links to be, just make a link like this:
    <a href="/?cat=3">page 3</a>

    but replace the number in “cat=3” to something else, like 2 or 3948 or whatever.

    umm, actually, what the OP ought to be doing is using individual category templates, as is described in the codex.

    ohh, you want different templates. i didn’t really read your codex that thoroughly. i’m not sure if you can do what you want, unless you uploaded wordpress to different directories.

    of course you can do that, though reading what he wrote *again* im more confused than the first time.

    I read pages as wordpress pages, for starters.

    nohl, in the future, understand that pages have a distinct meaning when referred to in WP-land. They are those things that are not posts.

    You cannot, in WP-land, put a post on a page.

    Categories are already done the way you describe — and unless you want to have the categories look different, I dont get what you are trying to do.

    IF you want to use wordpress page

    1- make a page template
    2- upload it in your theme directory
    3- wp-admin -> write page
    4- Write a page with only a title, choose the template you made.
    5- In your template file, use this for the loop :

    <?php query_posts('cat=5&showposts=5'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
---DO YOUR STUFF (author, title, date, etc...)---
<?php endwhile; ?>

    NOTE : In this example, we show 5 posts from category 5…

    cat=5&showposts=5

    S.

    Thread Starter nohl

    (@nohl)

    SimonJ <= the man (I am of course assuming)

    That did exactly what I wanted.

    Much thanks!

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