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I learn whether directly or indirectly. It’s all good. Thank you for your replies.

Of course, in all of this, what completely blew over my head, is that I can just link each user directly to the category page. That, combined with the exclude in the functions.php, achieved EXACTLY what I was after, with zero effort.

Thank you for your help.

I am using the cubic theme. I didn’t actually use your code to exclude posts – it was code that I already added several days ago. I’ll give it another go.

I just created a custom page template. To test its functionality, I copied the entire contents of the main theme’s index.php. I verified the template with the Template Debugger plugin. So I know that’s what my blog is using. Now, I named the custom page template with “page-“, followed by the slug of the page that I want it to apply to. No problem, again the Template Debugger verifies that the template is being accessed by the page. However, there is no content displayed on the page. It should be displaying EXACTLY what is on the blog, if I copied the contents of the page template, right?

I’ve already added the code to the functions.php, and it works. Unfortunately, it also prevents the posts from appearing when one actually selects the category.

Let me try to explain this in layman’s terms… I want to emulate the blog. In my limited understanding, the best way that I know how to do this, would be to find page gathers all of the php includes that WordPress uses. In the “old days” – we’re talking 6 or 7 years back – you could easily emulate pages by copying the main page. It used to be the “index” of the theme. Now, there is nothing in the theme index, except a commented out phrase, “silence is golden”. So what is used to aggregate the index.php and all of it’s sub-functions?

I would be more than satisfied just to create copies of that, and re-write the code on the backend, rather than through the interface. In my case, I would want to just call the header, footer, and loop, but the loop would just be a simple query of the specific category that I want.

OK, since nobody can ask the question as it’s asked… how about we create a standalone page, calling the php functions the same as the wordpress theme, but without using the interface? I don’t care if we have to use .htaccess redirects for the pages. I’ve tried creating pages with the php includes, but not having any luck!

I’m not a programmer, and I roughly understand the logic. But I just want to know the same answer, in a very cut-and-dry answer. How do I create a template to display the posts from a specific category? It used to be very easy to do this in WordPress. I would copy a .php page, modify the code and name, and link to it. Done. Since I’ve been away for awhile, I guess things have changed. Where is the standard template for the main blog located in the file system? From what I’m seeing now, it looks like functions.php drives everything for one blog page. I’m not sure how to workaround that.

Anyone? This should be a super simple question… Multiple pages displaying latest posts, but only from specific categories on each?

I just realized that I’m barking up the wrong tree. I can create static pages and link to them… D’oh!

Surely this must be a fairly simple question to answer…

Remove the date and category from underneath the title heading of individual posts…

Thank you.

Forgive me for butting in, but I think I may have the same question. Same table used multiple places – I actually have it used in a sidebar widget – and because it needs to be more compact in size, I want to remove 2 columns, which have images. Is there an easy way to do this?

Mind you, I would be using CSS outside of the tablepress plugin, using .mycustomclass .tablepress .

Thanks in advance.

Thanks, Cindy… That’s exactly what I needed.

Very much appreciated.

Tablepress uses its own custom CSS.

Your example is very nice, but it only seems to affect things relative to the sidebar, only – not the actual content.

Here is my breakdown, if it helps at all:

Tablepress to make a table. (including CSS)
Post to include the table with shortcode
Posts in Sidebar to include the post which contains the Tablepress

In case you might be curious why I’m doing this, it is a table for sports scores, and the upcoming game to be played. Perhaps there is a better way to accomplish what I’m doing? I don’t know how to do this any other way without duplicating the table, which I’m going to say, is a no go.

Thank you for your reply.

Is there a resource that outlines where each piece of the code resides? It would be nice if there were a graphic that pointed to each piece of text in the theme, and listed where the corresponding code can be found.

UPDATE: Got it all figured out. Calling externally is the ticket. There must have been some other error that I didn’t pick up on before.

Thank you for all of your help.