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1. vurtomatic
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi I'm new to WordPress and am currently trying to modify this theme.

   It's been designed to show only ONE post per view, and I am trying to get it to show a static post (which acts as an introduction), followed by posts from the category 'thoughts.'

   This is the index.php code I'm mucking around with:

   <?php get_header(); ?>
   
   <?php
   $temp = $wp_query;
   $wp_query= null;
   $wp_query = new WP_Query();
   $wp_query->query('showposts=1'.'&amp;paged='.$paged);
   ?>
   <?php while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
   
   <!-- ><span class="date"><?php the_time('F j Y') ?></span> -->
   <!-- >This article was written on this date, with the mathematical number of <?php comments_number('0', '1', '%'); ?> contributions.
    -->
   <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Comment: <?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1>
   <!-- ><h2><?php the_excerpt(); ?></h2> -->
   
   </div>
   
   <div id="navigate">
   <?php posts_nav_link('','','Prev') ?><span class="big"> <strong>/</strong> </span><?php posts_nav_link('','Next','') ?>
   
   </div>
   
   <div id="content_hold">
   
   <div id="content">
   <?php the_content('...'); ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
   <?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?>
   </div>
   
   <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

   I looked around on WordPress and tried:

   $wp_query->query('category_name=thoughts'.'showposts=99'.'&paged='.$paged);

   Which didn't work, I assume the syntax is wrong or I can't parse 'category_name=thoughts' in this case, I really don't know.

   Can someone help me out please?

   Thanks.

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