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1. soyuz
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   hi there,

   i have a website using wordpress. on the front page i have a banner slideshow of the small screenshots from the portfolio category (in my case, cat=9). the banner is from the custom field of each portfolio posts and have links to the specific post.

   here is the code:

   <?php query_posts('cat=9');
   	$slide = 1;
   	while (have_posts()) : the_post();
   	if (post_custom('preview')) { ?>
   	<div id="slideshow<?php echo $slide;?>"<?php if ($slide != 1) { ?> style="display: none;"<?php } ?>>
   	<a href="<?php the_permalink();?>">
   	<img src="<?php echo post_custom('preview');?>" alt="<?php the_title();?>" class="previewpic" />
   	<span><?php the_title();?></span>
   	</a>
   	</div>
   	<?php $slide++;} endwhile; ?>

   what i want to do now is add the query post so that the banner will shows not only from cat=9 but also from page_id=2 (this is the about us page).

   i try to put like this:
   

   <?php query_posts('cat=9&page_id=2');
   
   ..and so on..

   but it doesn't work, only shows the banner from the page_id=2.

   I would be tremendously obliged if you help me and tell me how to get this done.

   thanks.

2. nudnik
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm not totally following, but it looks like you want it to be OR page_id=2, not AND page_id=2.

3. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   First, Pages cannot be assigned to a category. So even it your query were to work, it couldn't. Second, 'cat' and 'page_id' are two very different types of queries which cannot be used to complement or modify the other. So you can have 'cat=9' or 'page_id=2', but not both.

   In any case, based on what you describe it looks more like you're in need of the is_page() conditional to decide when to display this banner. See:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_PAGE_Page

4. soyuz
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   i see. that's why it's only showing the Pages' banner *sigh*

   thanks for the tips, i will look into it.

5. burtonkent
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Actually, if you want to have the main loop work, and also have subqueries, you're going to have to use wp_query instead of query_posts. See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts for details.

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