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1. sparkyjoe
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hi everyone. I have added a new page in my sidebar called "Recipes" from Dashboard->Write->Page.and I want to be able to add seperate posts to that page from the dashboard just like I do on my index page. Is that even possible? Any help is very much appreciated.

2. kwbridge
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   You can make a new template and then use that template for the recipes page rather than the default one.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

   Once you make a template you can use the same code on it that you use on your index page but you will also want to add a query before the loop. The query could pull posts from just the category recipe.

   You can use something like

   <?php query_posts('category_name=wordpress&showposts=5'); ?>

   right before this
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   name=name of category, showposts=number of posts that you want to display.

3. sparkyjoe
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Thank you for the reply kwbridge.
   I'm not sure what I've done wrong with this but i get this error.

   Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /hermes/bosweb/web154/b1540/sl.insatiab/public_html/wp-content/themes/default/snarfer.php on line 25

   I put this in the template page:
   <?php /* Template Name: Snarfer */ ?>

   <?php get_header(); ?>

   <?php query_posts('category_name=Recipes&showposts=1'); ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   <?php get_footer(); ?>
   I also don't know what you mean by this:
   

   you will also want to add a query before the loop

4. kwbridge
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   You added the query before the loop - that's this part

   <?php query_posts('category_name=Recipes&showposts=1'); ?>

   You either have an endif or an end while in the wrong location. The error means there is an enexpected end on line 25 in that new template. Can you post all of the code?

5. buckmajor
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Do you have to duplicate the 'index.php' template file and rename it to 'snarfer.php'?

   I'm trying to do the same, well almost. I created a theme and removed most of the widgets including the 'category' to fit my design.

   I want to add new posts to my 'video' page. The link(video) is in my main navigation that I have created in css.

   I already know how, to add a new page, posts, category but not sure how to accomplish this.

   Any suggestions?
   Thanks in advance

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