Creating multiple category-based blog pages

Hi

The code to do it without a plugin is not difficult.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

You add one line before the WP loop in your page.php template
query_posts('cat=4&showposts=7'); displays 7 posts from cat #4
or
query_posts('cat=2,6,17,38&showposts=7');
displays the 10 most recent posts from categories 2, 6, 17, 38 combined.

You can combine all your pages in one template like this

<?php if (is_page('news')) {
  query_posts('cat=4&showposts=7');
} elseif (is_page('shopping')) {
  query_posts('cat=2,6,17,38&showposts=7');
}

*** loop starts here

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

If you prefer to use a separate template for each page, see
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

I dont know what youre talking about when youre using the term “team” but YOU have to create the page. Nothing is going to magically create any pages for you.

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You mean theme, apparantly.

There’s a better solution: child-themes.

This way, you can create your custom page and it will be stored in it’s own folder. So, when you update your theme your modifications will remain untouched.

Search for “child themes” and you you’ll see how easy they are.

Okay, it is very simple. Go to your /wp-content/themes/[theme] directory and copy page.php to page.php.old and then edit your page.php to look similar to the following:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php sy_pre_content(); ?>
<div id="content">

//This is the important part here
<?php
//Put Category 3 items on page 19 (My second page of blog posts)
 if(is_page('19')){query_posts("cat=3");}
//Remove Category 3 items from page 8 (My Home Page)
 elseif(is_page('8')){query_posts("cat=-3");}
?>
//That is all there is to it and it can be done for multiple pages

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
        <div class="entry">
        <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>

And they can’t make this functionality part of the product! Argh!!!

The “Exclude” was not working for me until I activated and then deactivated the “Frontpage Exclude Categories” plug-in. Not sure, maybe a fatfinger thing there.

Thanks,
Brad

Found an even more elegant solution to excluding items from the front page at http://blogmum.com/2009/04/how-to-exclude-categories-from-the-home-page-of-your-wordpress-blog/

Firstly, you need to find the number of the category you want to exclude:

* go into Posts > Categories
* click on the relevent category name
* the URL of the next page should end &cat_ID=xx, where xx is a number. Make a note of it.

Next, go into Appearance > Editor, and open functions.php. Add the following function at the very end of the file just before ?>:

function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home ) {
$query->set('cat', '-xx');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');

where xx is the number of your category. Don’t forget the minus sign in front of it! Save it, and you’re done. You can exclude multiple categories with ‘-xx,-yy,-zz…’

Cheers,
Brad