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1. antistandard
   Member
   Posted 1 year 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

2. David Sader
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

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

3. antistandard
   Member
   Posted 1 year 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

4. antistandard
   Member
   Posted 1 year 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.

5. David Sader
   Member
   Posted 1 year 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.

6. David Sader
   Member
   Posted 1 year 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

7. antistandard
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

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

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