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1. Maxaud
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm using the following page template to pull in some posts at the end of a page using a custom field called 'categoryid'. Similar code is working on a different site but not on this one for some reason.

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Category Articles Page
   */
   ?>
   <?php get_header(); ?>
   		<div id="container">
   			<div id="right-container">
   				<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   					<div class="post">
   						<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
   						<?php if(!is_paged()) { ?>
   							<?php the_content('Read the rest of this page &raquo;'); ?>
   							<?php edit_post_link('edit', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>
   						<?php } ?>
   						<?php
   							$categoryid = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'categoryid', $single = true);
   						?>
   					</div>
   				<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
   				<?php
   					$queryarg = array(
   						'posts_per_page' => 20,
   						'cat' => $categoryid,
   						'paged'=>$paged,
   					);
   					query_posts($queryarg);
   				?>
   				<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   					<!-- do some things here for each post -->
   				<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
   				<div class="navigation">
   					<?php posts_nav_link(' · ', 'previous page', 'next page'); ?>
   				</div>
   			</div>
   			<div id="left-container">
   				<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   			</div>
   		</div>
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

2. PBP_Editor
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It may be easier to pull in posts using a tag

   <?php query_posts('tag=yourtaghere');
   while (have_posts()) : the_post();
   ?>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
   <br />
   <?php the_content('Read the rest of this page »'); ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>

3. Maxaud
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you for the suggestion but that doesn't accomplish what I'm trying to do.

   I'm defining a category to list recent posts at the end of a page from that defined category.

   I need it to be defined by the use of a custom field from the write post page.

   This way a new page template doesn't have to be created for each category/tag. This also allows the users of the site to add more categories and list them easily.

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