Multiple Loops

  • irondavy

    (@irondavy)


    18 years, 4 months ago

    I am trying to set up my theme so that a category page will have all the posts in that category running down the left half of the page. On the right half, another list of the posts in that category, but only ones that are tagged ‘feature’.

    I’ve tried following guides for multiple loops but they don’t appear to work properly. This is what I have now in sidebar.php:

    <?php rewind_posts(); ?>

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&tag=feature'); ?>

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

	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
		<?php the_title(); ?>
	</a>

<?php endwhile; ?>

    This does spit out the featured posts, but not from the category I’m viewing. You can see what’s happening here:

    http://www.ihatetourists.com/category/albums/

    “Hello world!” is in the ‘News’ category, but its showing up in the ‘Albums’ category page.

    Any help greatly appreciated!

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  • Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    I’m not good at the writing of the code but what if you put in &category=# or something similar when you query the posts, where # is the category of albums?

    Thread Starter irondavy

    (@irondavy)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    I’m not good at the writing of the code but what if you put in &category=# or something similar when you query the posts, where # is the category of albums?

    Well I can’t put in a specific category number because I want whatever one is being passed by the URL. Unless there’s a way of passing that. I’m not really sure.

    Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    IS there a new tag that replaced <?php the_category_ID(echo); ?> similiar to <?php the_ID(); ?> that could be used to add the number to &category=# ??

    Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    also,
    what if you did some if/else statements to pull up the right category number?

    <?php if (in_category('1')) continue;?>

    Or would something like this work?

    using <?php single_cat_title('prefix', 'display'); ?> to getthe category name and then entering it into something like this: (at the #####)

    <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=#####');
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>
    <!-- Do stuff... -->
  <?php endwhile; ?>
    <!-- Do other stuff... -->
  <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
  if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>
   <!-- Do stuff... -->
  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
    Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    ok,
    I know that I’ve left a lot of comments so far but would this work in your case?:

    <?php
 $categoryvariable=$cat; // assign the variable as current category
 $query= 'cat=' . $categoryvariable. '&orderby=date&order=ASC'; // concatenate the query
 query_posts($query); // run the query
 ?>

    Thread Starter irondavy

    (@irondavy)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks so much for your continued support maxaud. I tried if statements like this:

    <?php if (is_category('1')) {
		query_posts('cat=1&tag=feature');
	}
	elseif (is_category('3')) {
		query_posts('cat=3&tag=feature');
	}
	elseif (is_category('4')) {
		query_posts('cat=4&tag=feature');
	}
	elseif (is_category('5')) {
		query_posts('cat=5&tag=feature');
	}
?>

    This solution and your solution, which I tried like this…

    <?php
 $categoryvariable=$cat; // assign the variable as current category
 $query= 'cat=' . $categoryvariable. '&orderby=date&order=ASC'; // concatenate the query
 query_posts($query); // run the query
 ?>

    …have the same results as my original code: no posts show up. Argh!

    Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    Not sure what to tell you.
    Hopefully someone else can chime in.

    Does it show up without the “tag=feature”?

    Thread Starter irondavy

    (@irondavy)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    The right posts show up if I query for the category, the right posts show up if I query for the tag, but if I query for both nothing shows up. Thanks for all your help maxaud!

    Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    Hmmm, I’m not really sure where to go from here.
    Maybe try seperating onto different lines like: 

    <?php
$categoryvariable=$cat;
$query= 'cat=" . $categoryvariable. "'
. '&orderby=date'
. '&order=ASC'
. '&tag=featured'
 query_posts($query);
 ?>

    I may have the double/single quotes wrong around . $categoryvariable.

    baffleinc

    (@baffleinc)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    use a category foreach to get the category id, then add it into the query_posts() (add this just before the endwhile of the main posts:

    <?php
	foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
		$category_id = $category->cat_ID . '';
		$category_name = $category->cat_name . '';
	}
?>

    then in your sidebar:

    <h2>Other posts under <?php echo $category_name; ?></h2>
<?php
if(have_posts()) :
query_posts('cat='.$category_id);
...

    OR

    <h2>Other posts under <?php echo $category_name; ?></h2>
<?php
if(have_posts()) :
query_posts('cateogry_name='.$category_name)
...

    That should work fine. Just make sure the first segment of code is within the main Loop!

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