Displaying posts by category doesn't work

  • Resolved nncrns

    (@nncrns)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    This is my first time coding a WP theme, so please bear with me if this is a stupid question. 🙂 I’ve already looked for similar threads and have tried different solutions, but I still can’t get my code to work. If anyone could have a look at what I might be doing wrong I would appreciate it.

    I am trying to display posts by categories. There is a category menu to the left and when selecting a category, its posts should load right beside it. However, what it does right now is display the posts of *all* categories.

    <div class="one-column category-menu">
   <?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'category-menu' ) ); ?>
</div>

<div class="four-columns">

   <?php get_query_var( $category );
   echo get_query_var('cat');
   query_posts('cat=$category'); ?>

   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
      <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

         <div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
            <div class="entry">
               <?php the_content(); ?>
            </div>
         </div>

     <?php endwhile; ?>
   <?php endif; ?>

</div>
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  • TutsMix

    (@tutsmix)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    I don’t understand exactly what you’re trying to do, but I’ve changed your code a little. It should work now.

    <div class="one-column category-menu">
	<?php

	wp_nav_menu(array(
		'theme_location' => 'category-menu',
	));

	?>
</div>

<div class="four-columns">
	<?php

	$category = get_query_var('cat');

	query_posts('cat='.$category);

	?>
	<?php if (have_posts()): ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()): ?>
			<?php the_post(); ?>
			<div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content(); ?>
				</div>
			</div>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
	<?php endif; ?>
</div>

    Take a look at:

    1. Template Hierarchy
    2. The Loop
    3. WP Query
    Thread Starter nncrns

    (@nncrns)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Awesome! Thanks so much for your help! Your corrections didn’t quite fix the problem, but it made me realise my mistake and now it works 🙂
    I didn’t know that the proper way to adress the variable was this:

    query_posts('cat='.$category);

    I thought by using get_query_var I could get the category IDs, store them in $category and query the posts with that ID to show up. Now I found out that the categories are automatically stored inside $cat and all I had to do was replace the code block including get_query_var with this:

    <?php query_posts('cat='.$cat);?>

    🙂

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