Embed WP PHP in my Page?

  • michaelmcguk

    (@michaelmcguk)


    18 years ago

    Hi,

    I have a ‘contact’ page on my site and I would like to display a set of posts from a particular category, in the middle of the page.

    Would this be a case of hacking up the ‘page.php’ and saying “if is_category(3), show these posts”, or could I add some PHP into my actual Page Content?

    Many thanks for looking and helping if you can 🙂

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  • wp_guy

    (@wp_guy)

    18 years ago

    I’d recommend you create a different page template with a separate loop.

    More on page templates.

    Custom loop extracted from here:

    // Get the last 10 posts in the special_cat category.
<?php query_posts('category_name=special_cat&showposts=10'); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <!-- Do special_cat stuff... -->
<?php endwhile;?>
    iridiax

    (@iridiax)

    18 years ago

    You have to either edit your page.php template or use a plugin that lets you execute php code in posts and pages.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/

    Thread Starter michaelmcguk

    (@michaelmcguk)

    18 years ago

    Crikey, like waiting for buses this! 😀

    Thank you both very much, I’ll look at the two options and see how I go.

    Cheers!

    ivovic

    (@ivovic)

    18 years ago

    LOL iridiax’s post was so similar to mine, I thought I double-posted.

    I will note though, that in principle I agree with wp_guy, use the plugin only if you can’t avoid inserting the php in the middle of your content.

    ivovic

    (@ivovic)

    18 years ago

    michaelmcguk, wait until you start asking difficult questions, then see the response rate drop off 😉

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