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1. andrewandrewfoxcouk
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi, I've been looking for ways of including various types of mini-loops in static pages, but they seem quite limited based on what I can glean from the support site and forum posts.
   I need the mini-loop to:
   1. show category names
   2. only show certain categories
   3. show dates
   Any ideas anyone?
   Thanks!

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   You can do all that. Just read up on The_Loop and Template_Tags and have at it.

3. andrewandrewfoxcouk
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thank you - but I don't understand how that works for a mini-loop. Unless I'm missing something obvious most of these just work for the normal Loop.
   Thanks.

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   What is the difference between a "mini" and a "normal" one?
   And why Pages?

5. andrewandrewfoxcouk
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi moshu,
   I need Pages with static text content in them, with an area of the page including a 'Recent Posts' section. This needs to show clearly what categories those posts are in. (I'd like to have as full control of it as possible - as much as using The Loop on a archive page).
   As for the mini and normal loop issue...
   See http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#Adding_a_Mini-Loop for information about including mini-loops on static pages.
   Thanks!

6. andrewandrewfoxcouk
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I guess something like Magpie RSS (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ ) may be a better bet for what I need to do... but it would be much nicer to be able to do what I need within the WordPress 'system'.
   Any thoughts or documentation on doing it with WordPress would be great!
   Thanks!

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