Category code pulling all blog posts

Howdy Tracypar,

Not sure what’s going on there, but I’ve a few questions for you:

1. Is your post a custom post type or taxonomy, or is it a standard WordPress Post?
2. Have you tried other options in the shortcode to make sure it’s working to pull in a specific number of posts, a different category, a tag? For instance, you could try a different category and see if it works and try removing the category=’tips-tips’ and limiting posts to: showposts=’3′ (or something similar)?
3. Do you have a page you can point me to to see it in action?

Glad you got this sorted, TracyPar. 🙂

Hi jan.uetz,

A few questions to get started:

1. What version of the plugin are you using? Make sure it’s the latest.
2. I’m guessing your site’s set to use the default 10 posts per page under Settings/Reading? If you change that number, does it affect the number of posts displayed on your publications page? I’m guessing so.
3. Have you tried another category to see if it works correctly?
4. What happens if you remove the category='publications' from your shortcode?

Glad you got it sorted. 🙂

Since the default output of the Posts in Page plugin is unstyled with minimal markup, you’ll notice that it doesn’t always inherit each theme’s styles.

If you run into that, you can look at Changing the Output Template and tweaking your customize PiP output template to have the same structure and classes used by your theme.

Anyway, good on ya’ for figuring it out. Cheers!

Hey Jan,

Questions:

1. Where does the template-blog.php file exist in your theme?
2. Can you paste, or link to the code in your template-blog.php file?
3. If you remove the template='template-blog.php' does it pull in the correct posts?

Aha! Okay, I think the problems are:

1. the template you’re trying to use to render your posts is part of your Woo theme
2. the Woo template also has a custom query.

It’s a bit confusing because we’re referring to a template you use to render the Posts in Page posts, but this isn’t really a traditional theme template, just a file we included in the theme that you can edit, duplicate, modify, to affect what happens inside the Loop.

If you look closely at the posts_loop_template.php file, you’ll see that it’s simply the markup that appears inside the loop, not the other stuff that you’d normally see in a standard WordPress theme template.

<!-- NOTE: if you make changes to this file, move it to your current theme's
	directory so this file won't be overwritten when the plugin is upgraded. -->

<!-- Start of Post Wrap -->
<div class="post hentry ivycat-post">
	<!-- This is the output of the post title -->
	<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

	<!-- This is the output of the excerpt -->
	<div class="entry-summary">
		<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
	</div>

	<!-- This is the output of the meta information -->
	<div class="entry-utility">
		<?php if ( count( get_the_category() ) ) : ?>
			<span class="cat-links">
				<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted in</span> %2$s', 'twentyten' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-cat-links', get_the_category_list( ', ' ) ); ?>
			</span>
			<span class="meta-sep">|</span>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<?php
			$tags_list = get_the_tag_list( '', ', ' );
			if ( $tags_list ):
		?>
			<span class="tag-links">
				<?php printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Tagged</span> %2$s', 'twentyten' ), 'entry-utility-prep entry-utility-prep-tag-links', $tags_list ); ?>
			</span>
			<span class="meta-sep">|</span>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'twentyten' ), __( '1 Comment', 'twentyten' ), __( '% Comments', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></span>
		<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyten' ), '<span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
	</div>
</div>
<!-- // End of Post Wrap -->

Here’s what I’d do:

1. copy the posts_loop_template.php file into your theme’s root
2. edit the markup so it contains the classes you’re using in your Woo theme – this should help your default styles ‘propagate’ to your PiP posts.

Note: the posts_loop_template.php file is a fraction of the code you pasted from the WooTheme. The entire PiP template basically corresponds with this line in your WooTheme:

get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );

I hope that helps.
Eric

My pleasure. Have a great week!

Hi justinstoner,

1. What exact shortcode are you using on the pages?
2. Are you using one shortcode on multiple pages, or is the shortcode on each page different?