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1. jeffreyvr
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have a slight problem.

   I'm having a website running on wordpress. This site contains a couple of categories such as news, questions, foods&drinks etc and that all goes well... but here's my problem.

   I wan't to have separate archives per category. But when I click on a month in my archive lists it automaticly uses the category page instead of the archive page.

   This is how i would like to have it:

   Category Page

   All posts in category news

   Post 1
   Post 2
   Post 3 etc

   --

   Archive page

   Posts in news - February (month)

   Post 1
   Post 2
   Post 3

   --

   Hope you guys understand what I mean, and have an answer for me.

2. keesiemeijer
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm not sure what you want. List only post with category "news" on date based archive pages?

3. jeffreyvr
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   That's correct.

   The problem is that I have different titles. On a category page I simply wan't to display the line 'all posts in category news' and on the archive page I wan't 'Posts in news - january 2011'.

   The problem is when I specify wich category should be archived it automaticly uses the category.php instead of the archive.php so that the title of the page is wrong.

   http://blog.nl/?m=201010 (displays archive page)
   http://blog.nl/?m=201010&cat=1 (displays category page)

4. keesiemeijer
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   try and add a query before the loop in your archive.php:

   <?php
   global $query_string;
   query_posts( $query_string . "&cat=7" ); // if 7 is the ID of the "news" category
   ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?><!-- start of loop -->

5. jeffreyvr
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for your help, but that's not the solution for my problem (I'm grateful for your reply though). Maybe you could take a look at my previous post wich I just edited. Maybe it will make my problem a little more clear.

6. keesiemeijer
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   How do you produce these links? with a wordrpress function?

   you can also try conditional tags is_category('7') or in_category('7') in the loop to show only "news" category.
   example of loop:

   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php if(is_category('7')) : ?>
   <?php the_content() ?>
   <?php endif; ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>

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