Hi all.
I am trying to add a loop before the loop which shows the main page content. The problem I am having is that apart from the homepage (which works), I am getting this error instead of the contents: "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria."
The loop looks fine to me... am I missing something obvious? (on most pages I have four different loops with no errors. This fifth one seems to cause all the errors. I wrote/modified the others a year or two ago, so it may be something obvious I have since forgotten...)
The loop I added was:
<div class="title">Affiliates</div>
<div class="rtext">
<?php
$AffiliateCount = 0;
$Affiliates = 3;
?>
<?php query_posts('cat=60'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if ($AffiliateCount == $Affiliates ) {
} else { ?>
<div class="affiliate">
<?php the_content();
$AffiliateCount = $AffiliateCount + 1; ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<div class="noaffiliate">Affiliates will go here.</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
help?
query_posts() should really be used only to affect the main (and hopefully only) loop on a page because it has a habit of banging the $posts object around in ways people are not prepared for.
Try modifying your loop above like so and see if it works for you:
<?php $aff_posts = new WP_Query('cat=60'); ?>
<?php if ($aff_posts->have_posts()) : while ($aff_posts->have_posts()) : $aff_posts->the_post(); ?>
Thanks, that worked.
It was something I really did not know. Is this documented in the Codex?
NBZ -- there is this in Codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_Example_1
If there are other places appropriate for that please suggest or even better, anyone can edit Codex.
Sorry, my mistake. I even looked at that page. Blame my stupidness.
nooozeguy
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Hi,
I am trying to use the loop to show excerpts from sub pages within a directory.
The page I am trying to do this on is: http://mjoc.biz/news-articles-especially-for-brokers-agents/.
I would like to have the excerpt for each page under each bullet.
Here is the code in the template which draws the link.
I think I need to use the <?php the_excerpt(); ?> tag, but I am not sure how (or even if that is correct). ;-)
Thanks for your help!
-Josh
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">More »</p>'); ?>
<ul>
<?php
wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&date_format=$date_format'); ?>
</ul>
<!--
<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
-->
NBZ
