Title: display posts
Last modified: April 2, 2019

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# display posts

 *  [altere987](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altere987/)
 * (@altere987)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-7/)
 * I was wondering if there was a way to list all posts in a certain category in
   alphabetical prder on a page with just the title and url to open, possibly in
   a table?
 * post1 post2 post3
    post4 post5 post6
 * I’ve tried a few different plugins, one I found that will (without tables) but
   displays the first bit of content for each post, the others I tried aren’t even
   worth mentioning.
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by [altere987](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altere987/).
      Reason: correction

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 *  [Michael James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeljames1/)
 * (@michaeljames1)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-7/#post-11382025)
 * Hey,
 * yes, you can do this easily with a WP Query, just create a page template and 
   paste the following code:
    Just replace ‘category_slug’ with the desired category
   slug.
 *     ```
       <?php
       		// Custom WP query
       		$args_query = array(
       			'post_type' => array('post'),
       			'posts_per_page' => -1,
       			'order' => 'ASC',
       			'orderby' => 'title',
       			'tax_query' => array(
       				array(
       					'taxonomy' => 'category_slug',
       					'field' => 'slug',
       				),
       			),
       		);
   
       		$query = new WP_Query( $args_query );
   
       		if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
       			echo '<table>';
       			while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
       				$query->the_post();
   
       				echo '<tr>';
       					echo '<td>';
       						echo '<a href="'.get_the_permalink().'">'.get_the_title().'</a>';
       					echo '</td>';
       				echo '</tr>';
   
       			}
       			echo '</table>';
       		} else {
       			echo 'No posts found.';
       		}
   
       		wp_reset_postdata();
   
       		?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [altere987](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altere987/)
 * (@altere987)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-7/#post-11383886)
 * [@michaeljames1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaeljames1/) , that’s
   close to what I’m looking for, there’s bound to be a way to go a step further
   into what I was thinking but I’m not sure with wp query on how to get 3 per table
   row? I also took out the tax_query and just used category__in after a little 
   searching.
 *     ```
       <table>
       <tr>
          <td> </td>
          <td> </td>
          <td> </td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
          <td> </td>
          <td> </td>
          <td> </td>
       </tr>
       </table>
       ```
   
 * I’m sure I can clean it up a bit once I get it working to be in line with the
   rest of the theme but I’m not even worried about that right now. Added get_header(),
   [http://www.masakiclan.com/testing](http://www.masakiclan.com/testing)
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by [altere987](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altere987/).
      Reason: added header and url to view
 *  Thread Starter [altere987](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altere987/)
 * (@altere987)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-7/#post-11384228)
 * Alright, I managed to remember incrementing records and was able to manipulate
   it to do what I wanted, hopefully I’ve got everything closed. My question on 
   this, is formatting so the table isn’t as wide as the whole page as other pages
   posted without a template fit in the center and don’t run out left or right too
   much. I’m not sure if this is CSS or something else I’m missing, here’s what 
   I have so far.
 *     ```
       <?php
       /**
        * Template Name: Testing
        */
       get_header();
                       // Custom WP query
                       $args_query = array(
                               'post_type' => array('post'),
                               'category__in' => array('4'),
                               'posts_per_page' => -1,
                               'order' => 'ASC',
                               'orderby' => 'title',
                       );
                       // counter for cells
                       $i = 1;
   
                       $query = new WP_Query( $args_query );
   
                       if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
                               echo '<table border="1">';
                               while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
                                       $query->the_post();
   
                                       // for 1st, 3rd, 6th, etc record insert new row
                                       if (($i == 1) or (($i - 1) % 3) == 0) {
                                       echo '<tr>' . "\n";
                                       }
                                               // insert cell
                                               echo '<td>';
                                                       echo '<a href="'.get_the_permalink().'">'.get_the_title().'</a>';
                                               echo '</td>';
                                       // for 3rd, 6th, 9th, etc record insert end of row
                                       if ((($i) % 3) == 0) {
                                       echo '</tr>';
                                       }
                                       // increment $i
                                       $i++;
                               }
   
                               // if no records left and row isn't filled, fill with empty cells
                               while(($i - 1) % 3 != 0) {
                                       echo '<td>&nbsp;</td>';
                                       $i++;
                               // for 3rd, 6th, 9th etc record insert a tag for end of the row
                               if (($i - 1) % 3 == 0) {
   
                                       echo '</tr>';
                                       }
                               }
                               echo '</table>';
                       } else {
                               echo 'No posts found.';
                       }
   
                       wp_reset_postdata();
   
                       ?>
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [altere987](https://wordpress.org/support/users/altere987/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-posts-7/#post-11384228)
 * Status: not resolved

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