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1. mouche
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello everyone, i'm new in the forum.
   I'm a beginner, so my programming skills are not so good (but still-evolving!), and i am working on a blog site.
   I need help about: how can i show in a blog-page only one category posts?
   For example: i define "page-a" "page-b" "page-c" pages, and "cat-a" "cat-b" "cat-c" categories, and in "page-c" i wanna show only "cat-a" posts.
   It is different if some pages have a template different from the blog-home?
   Thanxx.

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   when you create or edit a post you assign it to a category
   (little box to right of edit screen)

3. mouche
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hello samboll, i know that i can assign any categories to a post.
   i want know how can i tell the loop to filter posts, and show only one-kind-category-posts..

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You don't need that. WP does that out of the box. Click on a category name and only posts from that category will be displayed.
   BTW, don't use Pages for displaying posts. Pages are not for that.

5. mouche
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hi moshu, i know, but i wanna build a site that is between blog and cms, and i think that kind of site is easier to navigate if main menu displays pages and not categories..
   aternatively, i could use categories directly on main menu, but i should modify those lines:

   <div id="header">
   <div class="hmenu">

   <li class="<? echo (is_home())?'current_page_item':''; ?>">/"><span>Home</span>
   <?php $pages = wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&echo=0');
   $pages = preg_replace('%]+)>%U','<span>', $pages);
   $pages = str_replace('','</span>', $pages);
   echo $pages; ?>

   <? unset($pages); ?>
   </div><!-- end hmenu -->
   </div><!-- end header -->

6. moshu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   but i should modify those lines:

   Yes, that's exactly what you should do. It is easier to modify a menu than to force WP to do abnormal things.

7. mouche
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   ok, now i try

8. moshu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   This might be helpful:
   http://moshublog.com/2007/07/26/pages-and-categories/

9. mouche
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   tonite i will read your article.. and then i'll tell you about.. in the mean time, thank you!

10. triibutu
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Heck, this is way more useful:
    http://moshublog.com/2007/09/10/static-frontpage-combined-with-dynamic-content/
    As a matter of fact, I think this is pretty close to what is being asked for here, just needs a little configurability (and paging support):
    In the main loop:
    

    <?php $page_title = the_title('', '', FALSE); ?>

    Then fetch the posts:
    

    <?php
    	$par = 'category_name=' . $page_title;
    	if( isset( $wp_query->query_vars['paged'] ))
    		$par = $par . '&paged=' . $wp_query->query_vars['paged'];
    	query_posts($par);
    ?>

    And then display them as you want. I just copied the loop code from index.php.
    The technique is definitely not limited to front page...

11. mouche
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    moshu, that article in your blog is great.. and i thank you to redifine my wordpress-head-process of building a site.

    in the article, you said that i should rename a page file name with name of category (for example a page named info.php in category-3.php) so i can call that page by clicking on category-list with ID #3.
    i have some questions for you:

    • why category #3 doesn't appear in header-category-list (i haven't used exlude option)
    • how can i assign caategory #3 to an article
    • how can i define ID category to a category already existing

    P.S. thanks to triibutu for the post, soon i'll try your alternative way and i'll tell you about.

12. triibutu
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Here's an example page template that displays posts from the same category as page title under page content (based on WP2.6.3 default theme): http://www.hot.ee/triibutu/page-category-posts.zip

13. mouche
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    triibutu, in the meanwhile i was waiting for moshu's answer, i tried the way you was suggesting, and it works great!!
    thank you, i think i have resolved my problems!!

14. wrk
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Hi Triibutu, Im trying your way to show some posts of different chategories in de equal named page-template. But I still cant get it working correctly..

    my situation now:

    I a website separated in 2 parts(school with 2 locations).Each location have their own subpages(news, parents, newsletter, classes, ..etc).Now I want in the posts from category 'location1' in home>location1>groups. Posts from category 'location1' in home>location2>groups.the categories location1 and location2 also have subcategories like class1, class2 etc.

    Can you help me out? tnx in advance

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