List all posts in selected categories

  • antistandard

    (@antistandard)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    Thanks for any help on this.

    I want to list a category name, and then all the posts in full that are in that category.

    Then, when all the posts are finished listing, I want to show another category name and all the associated posts underneath it and so on.

    I want to have control over which categories get listed, by using the cat id’s or something.

    I think this is easy php but I tried everything, sorry.

    Thank you

    James

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  • David Sader

    (@dsader)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Did you try to create a page of posts with multiple loops?

    Thread Starter antistandard

    (@antistandard)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you. Yes I was thinking that. Maybe I need a ‘for each’ loop so that:

    for each category, list all posts

    Is that possible?

    Thanks for your time David

    Thread Starter antistandard

    (@antistandard)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    I almost have it:

    1 <?php query_posts(‘category_id=4,3’); ?>
    2 <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    3 <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?>
    4 <? the_title(); ?>
    5 <? the_content(); ?>
    6 <?php endwhile; ?>

    I just need to loop lines 3 to 5

    This is just raw testing so please disregard the formatting.

    David Sader

    (@dsader)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Yes make the page of posts in one category first.

    Then dupe it for a second third, fourth, like so…

    <?php $my_first_category_query = new WP_Query('category_name=my_first_category'); ?>

<?php while ($my_first_category_query->have_posts()) : $my_first_category_query->the_post(); ?>
  <!-- Do special_cat stuff... -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php $my_second_category_query = new WP_Query('category_name=my_second_category'); ?>

<?php while ($my_second_category_query->have_posts()) : $my_second_category_query->the_post(); ?>
  <!-- Do special_cat stuff... -->
<?php endwhile; ?>

    and so on.

    David Sader

    (@dsader)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    You don’t want to query_posts, what you where after in the original post needs a new WP_Query.

    1 <?php   $my_query4 = new WP_Query('cat=4'); ?>
2 <?php if( $my_query4->have_posts() ) :
3 <?php echo 'My Category 4'; ?>
4 <?php while ($my_query4->have_posts()) : $my_query4->the_post(); ?>
5 <? the_title(); ?>
6 <? the_content(); ?>
7 <?php endwhile; ?>
8 <?php endif; ?>

    then

    1 <?php   $my_query3 = new WP_Query('cat=3'); ?>
2 <?php if( $my_query3->have_posts() ) :
3 <?php echo 'My Category 3'; ?>
4 <?php while ($my_query3->have_posts()) : $my_query3->the_post(); ?>
5 <? the_title(); ?>
6 <? the_content(); ?>
7 <?php endwhile; ?>
8 <?php endif; ?>

    and so on

    Thread Starter antistandard

    (@antistandard)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Oh I see, yep that works well. Thank you David. I learnt something today. Nice.

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