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1. exit6
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm trying to display post from two categories on my home page, and to style the categories differently. They are subcategories of "menu-items," "seasonal-special" and "regular-dish."

   Seems like a pretty common task. Here's the only code I can figure out that even comes close to working:

   <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   
   	 <!-- "seasonal specials" is category 4, so I exclude all the
   others. This is tedius, and every time I add a category I have to
   add it here -->
   	 <?php if (in_category('1')||in_category('3')||in_category('5')
   ||in_category('6')||in_category('7')||in_category('8')
   ||in_category('9')) continue; ?>
   
   <div class="post">
   content goes here
   </div>
   
   	<?php endwhile; ?>
   
   	<!-- This grabs the newest 4 menu items -->
   	<?php query_posts('category_name=regular-dishes&showposts=4');
   	while (have_posts()) : the_post();
   	$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
   
   <div class="menu-item-right">
   content goes here
   </div>
   
    	<?php endwhile; else: ?>
   
   <p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
   
   <?php endif; ?>

   This works erratically. For example, currently no articles from cat 4 (seasonal specials) are showing up. Before I added cat 9 (which is a subcategory of menu items, just like cat 4) the cat 4 content was showing up correctly.

   There has to be a better way to do this...

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Wonder if you might be better off with this:
   http://www.daobydesign.com/blog/2007/07/modifying-wordpress-front-page/

3. exit6
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Having a hard time reading that post, with the code spilling out into his sidebar, but he's not sorting by category but by post date i think.

4. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You might have to copy and paste the examples, but he's not sorting by category. You would just need to add cat=4 or whatever to the get_posts arguments. The idea is to show you multiple loops.

   Related:
   query_posts()
   get_posts()

5. exit6
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks, got it. Yeah I have multiple loops going on, but I must be doing something wrong because they act unpredictably. I'm a decent AS3 programmer and the loops work a little different there, or what's more likely is I'm not used to php's syntax.
   An example of erratic behavior, I've got multiple loops on a category page. The category has three subcategories. I use this little gem:
   <?php if (in_category('1')||in_category('2')||in_category('3')||in_category('4')||in_category('5')||in_category('6')||in_category('7')||in_category('9')) continue; ?>
   To get to the first sub-category, but for some reason it's only putting up 8 entries, even though there are 13 in that sub-category. What's even stranger is at one point it was putting up 9!
   Later I use this code which I like better:
   

   <?php query_posts('category_name=drinks');
   while (have_posts()) : the_post();
   $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

   But if I try to replace that first ugly one with this prettier one, I get errors regarding the end of the loop.

6. exit6
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Aha!

   I looked at the query_post() link and caught what I was doing wrong with the loop -- I needed to stick the query before the loop.
   

   <?php
   query_posts('category_name=regular-dishes');
   if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
   ?>
   <div class="menu-item-right">...the content...</div>
   
   <?php
   endwhile;
   wp_reset_query();
   ?>

   Now it's letting 10 of the 13 posts through, which is still weird.

7. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Also see:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/280420

8. ugotdomain
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   How do I copy the same subcategories for different categories without retyping each time?

   Please help.

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