Categories in Pages.

  • smutimer

    (@smutimer)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there – I am using the Clean Line Theme by (http://vatuma.com/)

    Am having a little trouble with the PHP at the moment.

    I want to place a set of posts from a specific category (life) onto a page (http://www.sebmutimer.com/?page_id=39). I have this in a list mode at the moment but want it to look exactly like the homepage in terms of the thumbnails and exerts (www.sebmutimer.com).

    I’ve tried creating a new template by copying the index and editing a little but I keep getting function errors from the PHP.

    Can anyone help me or know any simple PHP code so that ‘life’ categorised posts show up (BUT in the same nature as homepage in terms of design) on the life page?

    Can provide code if needed?

    Thanks in advance all!

    Cheers

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  • Joseph

    (@jpe24524)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Have a look at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

    Also try search either on this forum or Google and you should be able to find example pretty easily as it has been answered countless times.

    Thread Starter smutimer

    (@smutimer)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hey Joseph thanks for answering.

    I have been doing research and have found answers as to how to show the posts with the query before the loop, I’m just having trouble with the PHP used to display the posts correctly.

    I tried copying my index page and tweeking the query to just receive the certain category but I keep getting an error from PHP about the function repeating in another section of the website?

    Can post code if you are able to help?

    Joseph

    (@jpe24524)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Should be like this:

    <?php query_posts('category_name=Life'); if ( have_post() ) : ?>

    or

    <?php query_posts('cat=4'); if ( have_post() ) : ?>

    with category id for life.

    Thread Starter smutimer

    (@smutimer)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    [Large code excerpt removed by moderator per forum rules. Please use the pastebin for all large code excerpts. It works better anyway.]

    This is from my index function – I just want to edit this to show a specific category on another page but keep getting PHP redeclare errors and parse errors 🙁

    Any ideas?

    Joseph

    (@jpe24524)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    If you’re want to do it on a page then you should be modifying page.php or creating a custom page template.

    index.php is for your blog post list unless other templates are missing.

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