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1. nick_nielsen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm trying to build a home page of a site whose organisation is based on categories.

   So I have three articles from each category - title, or titles and excerpts and I want a link to each category's archive - with "see all the articles"" or something.

   I'm not good at PHP - I'm more of a copier and paster ! I found this in the codex :
   

   <?php $category_id = get_cat_ID( 'My Category' );
    $category_link = get_category_link( $category_id );?>
    <a href="<?php echo $category_link; ?>" title="My Category">See all the articles</a>

   This works perfectly with the first instance, but I get "Catchable error... for the second and any subsequent uses - I try changing the names of the variables, but that doesn't change anything.

   Why is this happening, and what should I do so it will work ? Please keep explanations easy to understand for the PHP retarded !

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Where are you grabbing the category ids from?

3. nick_nielsen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   According to the codex, I put the category name, for ex. 'my-info' between the brackets, and the code does the rest !

   WordPress no longer seems to show the database ID number in admin, so I used what was suggested... In the end I hacked the code by going into phpadmin to find the number.

   Actually I think I have a way of doing it without fiddling with code...

   But I would like to know why it works once, and not the other times.

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Are you resetting the query between each of these blocks? Have you looked at using get_posts instead - which might be more suitable for this kind of secondary query?

5. nick_nielsen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   How do you reset the query ? I tried doing something with "return", but I don't know anything about it, so everything crashed !

   I use get_posts() to get my three excerpts, but then, after, my little list, I want to give a link to that category's page - that works fine. Maybe there's a way to use get_posts() to render the "foreach" loop, and then give me the category page link, but I don't know how. Told you I didn't know much ! Pushings around with HTML and CSS I can cope with but getting stuff from the database defeats me !

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   How do you reset the query

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_reset_query

7. nick_nielsen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'll try it !
   Thanks

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