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1. mmounirf
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   Hey all geeks out there,

   I just went through some topics discussing how to embed posts from specific category to a simple page, so that I can benefit from the custom sidebar function, body content of the page and posts styling.

   Below are the original code for my page.php category.php and the custom template page I created using the original template page-cat.php

   page.php
   

   <div class="inner">
       <div class="container">
       <div class="main">
   	<?php the_breadcrumb(); ?>
       <div class="box_outer">
   	<article class="cat_article">
   	        <h1 class="cat_article_title page_title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
       <div class="single_article_content">
       <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
           <?php the_content(); ?>
   	<div class="clear"></div>
   	<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
   	<?php endwhile; else: ?>
   	<?php endif; ?>
        <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
      </div> <!--Single Article content-->
      <?php if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mom_page_comments', true)) { ?>
       <div class="dots"></div>
       <?php comments_template(); ?>
      <?php } ?>
       </article> <!--End Single Article-->
       </div> <!--Box Outer-->
       </div> <!--End Main-->

   category.php
   

   <div class="inner">
       <div class="container">
      <?php if(of_get_option('feature_cat_style') == 'full') { ?>
   <?php if(of_get_option('cat_feature_on')) { ?>
      <?php include TEMPLATEPATH . '/feature-full.php'; ?>
   <?php } ?>
      <?php } ?>
   
       <div class="main">
   <?php the_breadcrumb(); ?>
      <?php if(of_get_option('feature_cat_style') == 'default') { ?>
   <?php if(of_get_option('cat_feature_on')) { ?>
      <?php include TEMPLATEPATH . '/feature.php'; ?>
   <?php } ?>
      <?php } ?>
   <?php if(of_get_option('cat_lv_on')) { ?>
       <?php include TEMPLATEPATH . '/latest-video.php'; ?>
   <?php } ?>
   <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php cat_article(); ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
   <?php  else:  ?>
   <!-- Else in here -->
   <?php  endif; ?>
   <?php mom_pagination(); ?>
   <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
       </div> <!--End Main-->

   page-cat.php
   

   <div class="inner">
       <div class="container">
       <div class="main">
   	<?php the_breadcrumb(); ?>
       <div class="box_outer">
   
   <?php query_posts('cat=5&showposts=4'); if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php cat_article(); ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
   <?php  else:  ?>
   
   <!-- Else in here -->
   <?php  endif; ?>
   <?php mom_pagination(); ?>
   <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
   </div>
       </div> <!--End Main-->

   It seems that everything is going well except for the pagination, in the page 2 or 3 or whatever it keeps showing the same first 4 posts.

   Also the page contents are not appearing before the posts. I used <?php the_content(); ?> but I didn't work out.

   Any recommendations ?

2. bythegram
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   For pagination:
   First thing I would try is change
   <?php query_posts('cat=5&showposts=4'); if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   to
   

   <?php query_posts('cat=5&posts_per_page=4'); if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

   "showposts" is deprecated as of version 2.1 (replaced by posts_per_page).

   I'd look into whatever that mom_pagination function is doing as well.

   For the content that seems to also be a unique function "cat_article" so it would have something to do with your theme.

   I know that might not have helped too much be it'll give you something to look into.

3. mmounirf
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   Thank you very much @bythegram well explained I will give it a try and change showposts to posts_per_page as soon as I return back my room

   For the content issue I found that calling <?php the_content(); ?> outside the posts loop make it works

   <div class="box_outer">
   
       <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
           <?php the_content(); ?>
   	<div class="clear"></div>
   	<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
   	<?php endwhile; else: ?>
   	<?php endif; ?>
   <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
   <?php query_posts('cat=10'); if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php cat_article(); ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
   <?php  else:  ?>
   <?php  endif; ?>

   Will give you feedback about the results ... I appreciate your reply :)

4. mmounirf
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   @bythegram I did try posts_per_page instead of showposts but it didn't work out, I don't think <?php mom_pagination(); ?> function is the problem as it works fine in the category page

5. bythegram
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   ahh I think I got it.

   change your query to this:
   

   <?php
   $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
   query_posts('cat=5&posts_per_page=4&paged=' . $paged);
   if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
   ?>

   See this page for more tips

6. mmounirf
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   WOW !!! it works like charm (Y) well done. Thanks for the great help. Could you please explain ?

7. bythegram
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #
   

   To be honest I just looked into the codex for a little more detail on how the WP_Query class uses pagination.

   $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
   $query = new WP_Query( 'paged=' . $paged );

   Display posts from the current page and set the 'paged' parameter to 1 when the query variable is not set (first page).

   more infor here

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