Category ID not being recognized in query_posts

  • Maxaud

    (@maxaud)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    I’m using the following page template to pull in some posts at the end of a page using a custom field called ‘categoryid’. Similar code is working on a different site but not on this one for some reason.

    <?php
/*
Template Name: Category Articles Page
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
		<div id="container">
			<div id="right-container">
				<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
					<div class="post">
						<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
						<?php if(!is_paged()) { ?>
							<?php the_content('Read the rest of this page &raquo;'); ?>
							<?php edit_post_link('edit', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>
						<?php } ?>
						<?php
							$categoryid = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'categoryid', $single = true);
						?>
					</div>
				<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
				<?php
					$queryarg = array(
						'posts_per_page' => 20,
						'cat' => $categoryid,
						'paged'=>$paged,
					);
					query_posts($queryarg);
				?>
				<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
					<!-- do some things here for each post -->
				<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
				<div class="navigation">
					<?php posts_nav_link(' · ', 'previous page', 'next page'); ?>
				</div>
			</div>
			<div id="left-container">
				<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
			</div>
		</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
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  • PBP_Editor

    (@pbp_editor)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    It may be easier to pull in posts using a tag

    <?php query_posts('tag=yourtaghere');
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<br />
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this page »'); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
    Thread Starter Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you for the suggestion but that doesn’t accomplish what I’m trying to do.

    I’m defining a category to list recent posts at the end of a page from that defined category.

    I need it to be defined by the use of a custom field from the write post page.

    This way a new page template doesn’t have to be created for each category/tag. This also allows the users of the site to add more categories and list them easily.

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