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1. deepwhitesound
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   hello, hope someone here can help me.

   i would like to do two things, and both require 'getting' information from a page / its custom field data, and inserting into another code.

   first: in my category.php file, before calling up all posts from a specific category, i'd like to insert code that would call up the content from a page with the same name as the category name.

   for example, for a category named 'The Beatles' i'd like to pull up the_content from a page also named 'The Beatles' and include it in the category

   if i could get this to work, this second part won't be as important, however i'd still like to know how to do it...

   second, on a page i'd like to call up all posts from a specific category. the category id would be specified as a value from a custom field entry from that page.

   i've used get_posts to pull up the posts, and get_post_meta to pull up the custom field data, however when i use them together like this, it gives me an error:

   <?php
    $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=5&order=DESC&orderby=ID&category=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'identity', true); ?>');
    foreach ($postslist as $post) :
       setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
    <div class="recent">
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
    </div>
    <?php endforeach; ?>

   kind of new to more 'complex' use of this code so any help is greatly appreciated!

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   first question:
   

   <?php
   $current_cat_name = single_cat_title('',false);
   $page = get_page_by_title($current_cat_name);
   if($page) : //only do the following if a page with this title exists
   $pageid=$page->ID;
   query_posts('post_status=publish&page_id='.$pageid);
   if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post();
   /*your page output code here*/
   the_title();
   the_content();
   endwhile;
   endif; //end of the loop
   wp_reset_query();
   endif; //end of if($page)
   ?>

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/single_cat_title
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_page_by_title
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#Post_.26_Page_Parameters
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_reset_query

   second question:
   you seem to have ignored the sequence of opening/closing php tags:
   instead of this line:
   

   $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=5&order=DESC&orderby=ID&category=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'identity', true); ?>');

   you could try to use:
   

   $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=5&order=DESC&orderby=ID&category='. get_post_meta($post->ID, 'identity', true));

3. deepwhitesound
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   you are beyond incredible. thank you so much! the second code, i knew i was doing something wrong but i am new to this code and didn't know exactly what it was.

   thanks again you just saved the day

4. deepwhitesound
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   actually, for the first code, how about calling up just a link to the page with the same title, rather than the content from that page?

5. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   i'd like to insert code that would call up the content from a page with the same name as the category name.

   it is not absolutely clear to me what that means;
   however, if you just want to have a link to that particular page there:
   

   <?php
   $current_cat_name = single_cat_title('',false);
   $page = get_page_by_title($current_cat_name);
   if($page) : //only do the following if a page with this title exists
   $pageid=$page->ID; ?>
   <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($pageid);?>"><?php echo $page->post_title; ?></a>
   <?php
   endif;
   ?>

   this outputs the linked title of the page with the same name as the category.

6. deepwhitesound
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   everything you have provided works perfectly :) thank you so much

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