Displaying Posts on a Page where Posts Catergory = Page Name

  • mtwelve

    (@mtwelve)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hey,

    Lets get down to brass tax:

    • I want to show posts in pages
    • I want the posts to be relevant to the page.
    • The posts category is also the pages name

    I have tried adding the following to a page template after the main loop to show the the posts/news (I presume it is the loop that retrieves a pages content?)

    <?php query_posts('category_name=<?php the_title(); ?>&posts_per_page=10'); ?>

 <!-- Start the Loop. -->
 <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

 <?php if ( in_category('<?php the_title(); ?>') ) { ?>
           <div class="dept-news-post">
 <?php } else { ?>
           <div class="post">
 <?php } ?>

 <!-- Display the Title as a link to the Post's permalink. -->
 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

 <!-- Display the Post's Content in a div box. -->
 <div class="entry">
   <?php the_content(); ?>
 </div>

 <!-- Stop The Loop (but note the "else:" - see next line). -->
 <?php endwhile; else: ?>

 <!-- The very first "if" tested to see if there were any Posts to -->
 <!-- display.  This "else" part tells what do if there weren't any. -->
 <p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

 <!-- REALLY stop The Loop. -->
 <?php endif; ?>

    I’m trying to insert the pages name as the category filter in the query_posts bit.

    I can imagine because I’m staring a new loop it forgets the pages name.

    Does anyone have any suggestions to make this work? on a different way of doing this?

    Perhaps creating a variable within the first loop that is remembered to filter the second? I have no idea but I can imagine its possible.

    Any and all help received with thanks!
    mtwelve

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  • Thread Starter mtwelve

    (@mtwelve)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Wow! This forum moves quick.

    I’m going to give this a selfless BUMP!

    Thread Starter mtwelve

    (@mtwelve)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Here is the solution from this post: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-page-based-on-category?replies=18

    <?php $catname = wp_title('', false); ?>

<?php query_posts("category_name=$catname&showposts=3"); ?>

<?php $posts = get_posts("category_name=$catname&numberposts=3&offset=0");
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>

<div class="dept-news-post">
 <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

    The important bit is <?php $catname = wp_title(”, false); ?>. I haven’t finished styling the output.

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