Displaying multiple posts by categories?

  • Resolved James Brow

    (@james-brow)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    So I’ve been reading the codex for a few days now and I keep seeing similar questions in reference to what I’d like to do with my site, but nothing has stuck out as a solution yet.

    That being the case I was hoping some one could point me in the direction of how I can achieve the desired effect I’m going for.

    Basically on my index page I have 4 sections, Articles/Repair/Web/Design and what I want to be able to do is have each section ONLY update with posts from the appropriate category. That is to say if I write a post and categorize it as an ‘article’ then it only shows in the “Articles” section.

    Is there a plugin or a PHP call for this? What’s more is there one that won’t get tripped up by 4 instances of it running on the same page? I’m not looking to make 4 separate pages-one for each category-I want it all displayed on the main page.

    Any help would be appreciated!

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  • Thread Starter James Brow

    (@james-brow)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Of course after I post this I figured this part out.

    A snippet. I just put this in each section and changed the cat=# to the appropriate number for each section/category.

    <?php $blog_query = 'showposts=4&cat=7';
	$posts = query_posts($blog_query);
	while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<div class="entry">
				<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
				<p class="postmetadata">
<?php the_category(', ') ?> <?php _e('by'); ?> <?php  the_author(); ?>
<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); ?>
				</p>
			</div>
			<div class="comments-template">
<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>
		</div>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
		<div class="navigation">
			<h6><?php posts_nav_link(); ?></h6>
		</div>

		<div class="post">
			<h2><?php _e('Not Found'); ?></h2>
		</div>

    not sure if it will work multiple times on the same page yet.

    Thread Starter James Brow

    (@james-brow)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    It works. Closing.

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