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1. intothewhite
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi - I have created a page template entitled Clients Page. The template has a loop which displays all post titles and their excerpts, using query_posts.

   I created a page called Clients using the Clients Page template.

   In my sidebar.php file I use conditional tags to display different things according to the page I'm on. I want something specific displayed when the page is Clients, so I use:

   elseif (is_page('Clients')) {

   The problem I have is that wp doesn't think the page is Clients. Because I've used query_posts, it thinks the page is the oldest post in the database. Consequently, the correct code isn't shown.

   I guess I could use is_single('title of the oldest post') instead of (is_page('Clients')), but it'd be a lot better to get wp to recognise the page as Clients.

   Any ideas how I could do this?

2. Darran
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   If it is a single page, why should you be doing a query_post()?

3. intothewhite
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Because I want the page to query the database - I write posts that detail work that has been done with clients (and these posts are tagged 'client'). The page pulls all posts tagged 'client' from the database, and displays a link, the title and the excerpt.

   Thanks,

   Leon

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The page pulls all posts tagged 'client' from the database (emphasis mine)

   Which means it doesn't behave anymore as a Page pulling the content from a single entry... so WP, correctly, perceives it as something else, not a Page. That's my guess.

   If those post are really "tagged" as 'client' - (meaning they have a tag like that), you could just use a tag-specific template to display them:
   Template_Hierarchy#Tag_display

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