Posted 2 weeks ago #
I'm trying to query the children pages of a parent page. I have it set up so that the first post shown is the complete post and the other 9 are excerpts. The actual layout works perfectly using this:
<?php query_posts('static=true&post_parent=4' . '&paged=' . $paged . '&showposts=10'); ?>
but it doesn't stop at 10 (shows them all) and it doesn't paginate. It DOES stop at 10 and paginate if I use this setup to query POSTS in a category. Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
This might work:
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('post_type=page&post_parent=4' . '&paged=' . $paged . '&showposts=10');
?>Just a tip/note:
You can't use paging when using showposts...
If using paging, you should use posts_per_page ...
Thanks--I've got to remember showposts is deprecated.
I only realised that recently myself.. ;) ...
Posted 2 weeks ago #
Thank you so much for your responses!
Ok, if I use this:
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('post_type=page&post_parent=4' . '&paged=' . $paged . '&posts_per_page=10');
?>no posts show up at all. I found out from my zillions of tests trying to figure this out that I can't use post_type=page -- I have to use static=true. Then the posts show up but there's still no pagination.
Here's my code in it's entirety. Maybe I'm doing something wrong somewhere else?
Posted 2 weeks ago #
PS: I decided to just show excerpts which is why I don't have it set up to show a full post and then excepts as I originally stated.
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("post_type=page&post_parent=4&paged=$paged&posts_per_page=10');
?>Works for me... assuming you want pages (not posts).
Are you sure the parent ID is correct?
How many pages are you expecting to get in the result?
Posted 2 weeks ago #
I'm positive I have the right ID. With post_type=page I get a blank page. As soon as I change it to static=true the page excepts are there but don't paginate. What I'm doing is, writing a serial story. I have the main story page with a little description and then I have the parts listed as excerpts. Right now there are only 5 parts (I used 10 as an example). Eventully there will be many parts which I will break into 20 per page. Except they won't paginate, heh.
Tested further, i can get paging links to show, but the paging doesn't work. Also sticky posts still seem to show up (bug i guess - caller_get_posts=1 fixes that).
Though when i think about it, paging is (i think) intended for posts.
I can't find a paging system for pages that exists, might need to check the plugins section.
Posted 2 weeks ago #
Yeah I've tried everything and I don't think it's gonna work. Thanks for your time though :)
Well paging should work, on the pages themselves, at least for paging of some kind, as the rewrite rules exist...
However, creating lots of pages in this fashion will increase your rewrite rules by large amounts (a new rule is created for every page - pages are intended for static content), relying on category (or taxonomy) sorting would be far less intensive (posts use a more simple approach so don't fill up the rewrite list in the same way).
Thought about using categories or taxonomies?
Posted 2 weeks ago #
Yup I started out having them as posts and querying the category they were in which works perfectly. But I want the permalink to be sitename.com/mainstorypagewithexcerpts/partname/ and the blog posts to be date based. Since you can't have 2 different permalink structures, I was trying to do it this way.
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