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1. bollywooddreamz
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hi

   i am trying to make a template that can be used many times. as such i want to use custom fields to define a category slug and use it within the query_posts . but its not working. can anyone help me out with this

   the code i am using is

   '<?php $cat=get_post_custom_values($key = "name"); ?>

   <?php query_posts("category_name=$cat&showposts=4"); ?>'

   please suggest what i am doing wrong

   thanks in advance

2. Austin Matzko
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I don't understand exactly what you're trying to do, but this code probably isn't what you want to do:

   $cat=get_post_custom_values($key = "name");

   You might want

   $cat=get_post_custom_values("name");

3. bollywooddreamz
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hi

   let me try to explain in detail.

   want to make a reusable template which drags posts from different categories with the same tag name on to one page.

   example i want a different categories of a movie such a movie review, video, movie preview and etc having the tag name i.e of a particular movie on to one page.

   so i cant hard code the category name in to the template. i want to use custom field to define the category and tag.

   hope i was clear this time.

   any assistance would be great.

4. Austin Matzko
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   want to make a reusable template which drags posts from different categories with the same tag name on to one page.

   If you want to create a template that shows posts from particular category, just create a template file named like category-12.php where "12" is the category id number of the category whose posts you want to show.

   Alternatively, if you have a regular page template, you can query posts by category and get the same results with the following:

   query_posts(array('cat' => 12));

   Or search by category name:

   query_posts(array('category_name' => 'MyCategory'));

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