Displaying a specific post in category/archive template?

  • Levant Technologies

    (@hobbahobba)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    I have a category called “cars” (it’s ID # is 9). I want to have a category template page that shows BOTH a specific post (that sticks out on top of content as a “welcome post”) then it proceed with looped posts with “cars” category on them.

    So it looks something like this:

    Header
    ========
    Welcome Post (sticks out in front of page)
    ========
    cars post #9
    cars post #8
    ....
    cars post #1
    ========
    Footer

    I can mod the php file so that the welcome post will be static. But since I’m doing a page for someone who is not php savvy and likes to change content in welcome post, I have to generate the welcome post off the admin.

    So I used

    <?php
    // retrieve one post with an ID of 5
    query_posts('p=5');
    ?>

    And it pulls up the welcoming post but the following cars posts don’t show up. It seems like it kills the loop.

    Please help

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  • Eric Amundson

    (@sewmyheadon)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    You could to do something like:

    <?php query_posts(‘pagename=carswelcome’); ?>
    <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php the_title(‘<h4>’, ‘</h4>’); ?>
    <?php the_content(); ?>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php endif; ?>

    I’d place it right above the loop in its own <div> maybe.

    Thread Starter Levant Technologies

    (@hobbahobba)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks, will try it.

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