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1. warpdesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi, I'm building a template that has a category, sub-category and post excerpts in the side bar. I created the part of the sidebar that lists the excerpt of the current category like so
   
<?php query_posts("cat=$cat"); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" class="more"> <?php the_excerpt(); ?></a>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</li>

   It was working fine as long as I didn't do anything to the main query on the page. But now I only want to show the most recent post on the category page so I put this line at the top of the main file
   
<?php query_posts("showposts=1"); ?>

   and now the side bar doesn't work. Is there a way to make the two queries not conflict with one another?

2. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Maybe start here:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

   I know there's a way to use more than one query, just not sure right now where the info is....

3. warpdesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hmm, thanks for the link but I wasn't able to make any headway. I basically want my side bar to have an excerpt that has nothing to do with the query on the page, so I'm running a second query on it that conflicts with whatever the main query is for the page that is pulling the side bar. Does that make sense?

   How can a start a new query and loop on the sidebar that is seperate from the main one for the page?

4. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I feel stupid now, because the info is something I got involved in myself some months back - chalk it up to trying to work while sick?

   Check this thread (be warned: it's fairly long):

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/83936?replies=41

   You'll see within there exactly how to set up separate queries this way. Now, caveat-time: once you use the loop and queries like this, the previous/next navigation won't work.

   If you can make the query thing work without needing a second loop, it should leave the nav alone.

   And after you read through that, if you want to try it, I have the salient parts in a file; if you want it, say so, and I'll post it to pastebin and return the link.

5. warpdesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks! It's working now. This page here helped tremendously (for future reference)

   http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_in_Action

6. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Good to hear. Mark this as resolved then, please and thanks?

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