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1. jwhazzard
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hello All,

   I need help with a custom page template for displaying all posts in a certain category underneath the page content. I have the code 90% working but one little bug eludes me.

   Page is drawing the category from a custom field "showcategory" whose string value should match the post category to be displayed on the page.

   What I have:

   ...normal page template...
   <!-- article-content -->

   <?php if (is_search()) the_excerpt(); else the_content(__('Read the rest of this entry »', 'kubrick')); ?>

   <?php if (is_page() or is_single()) wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p>Pages: ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>

   <!-- Display all posts of category set by post custom value key "showcategory" -->
   <!-- Segment 1: Get custom value and assign to $catstubs -->

   <?php $catstubs = get_post_custom_values('showcategory'); ?>
   <?php echo "Category: $catstubs[0]";
   $currentcat = $catstubs[0];
   if (is_string($currentcat)) {
   }
   else { echo "it's not a string"; }
   ?>

   <!-- Segment 2: display all post (title permalink and except) for $catstub category -->

   <?php $myposts = get_posts('category_name=$currentcat');
   foreach($myposts as $post) :
   setup_postdata($post); ?>

   • "><?php the_title(); ?>

   <div class="art-post"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>

   <?php endforeach; ?>

   <!-- -->

   <!-- /article-content -->
   ..continue normal template...

   I'm getting a blank page when the category_name param is drawing from a variable.

   Any help would be greatly appreciated!

   Thanks!

2. MichaelH
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   <!-- Segment 2: display all post (title permalink and except) for $catstub category -->
   <?php
   $cat_id = get_cat_ID($currentcat);
   $args=array(
     'cat' => $cat_id,
     'post_type' => 'post',
     'post_status' => 'publish',
     'posts_per_page' => -1,
     'caller_get_posts'=> 1
   );
   $my_query = null;
   $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
   if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
     while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
       <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
     endwhile;
   }
   wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
   ?>
   <!-- -->

3. jwhazzard
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Brilliant! Thank you.

   I'm still getting the hang of the WP_Query use and this helps tremendously.

   Thanks!

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