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1. tech.knowledG
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I am working on my first site in years and decided to use wordpress. I am trying to code a page templete .php file that would allow the page to have a steadystate opening paragraph explaining the related post that would follow.

   Here is a link to the Google Doc with what I have so far and its not delivering what i want.

   
   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jZ9QkC1yDvVXcQ5sWKA7bA2es0xL2kXxpcxr0fCRCnU/edit?hl=en_US

   I looked through the WP docs and how too's and made the changes it suggested but still no luck

   any help would be greatly appreciated

2. peredur
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   One thing that looks a bit odd to me is:

   <?php if (is_page() ) {$category = get_post_meta($posts->ID, '3,4,5,6,7,8', true);}

   If it's a page, it won't be a post, so it won't have a category since only posts have categories. But maybe I'm misreading your code.

   I think I'd have done this a different way, if I understand your requirements correctly. I'd have put the posts you're interested in into a category and then put the fixed text into the category template for that category.

   I did something similar, once, for this site. The bit with the light green background at the top of the list, headed "Writing Residencies", is the fixed text.

   Cheers

   PAE

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