Title: Posts Populating on Pages
Last modified: June 25, 2017

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# Posts Populating on Pages

 *  [trylikeafool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trylikeafool/)
 * (@trylikeafool)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-populating-on-pages/)
 * Hi folks,
 * I’ve inherited a website developed by someone else. He had more knowledge of 
   WordPress than me, and set up several pages where posts automatically populate
   on them. I can’t figure out how this is done. All I know to do is create a post
   and make sure the proper category is selected. As long as the category is selected,
   it populates on the appropriate page. Looking at the code, however, I don’t see
   how he set the page up to do that.
 * To make matters worse, he used Visual Composer to format a lot of the page contents
   of the site, and that plugin is broken. It also hides the code, so I can’t see
   how it’s done. If anyone has a workaround for that, let me know. I can’t hand
   code anything beyond basic HTML tags, so I’m completely stuck updating the pages
   where he used VC to do everything. Trying to get it working, but I’m under the
   gun to get these updates done.
 * Anyway – the main thing I need to understand is how do you tell a page to populate
   posts from a certain category, the number of posts to display, and how to display
   them? I’ve found tutorials on adding categories as pages in the navigation menu,
   but that’s not what I need to do. Here are examples of static pages with posts
   automatically populated on my site:
 * [http://hollywoodprayernetwork.org/prayer/monthly-prayer-newsletter/](http://hollywoodprayernetwork.org/prayer/monthly-prayer-newsletter/)
 * [http://hollywoodprayernetwork.org/prayer/prayer-requests/](http://hollywoodprayernetwork.org/prayer/prayer-requests/)
 * How are these pages built? I can paste code if needed. Thanks.

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-populating-on-pages/#post-9260551)
 * Review the Page Template used for a page that show both the content of a page
   and posts, then test applying that page template.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-populating-on-pages/#post-9260551)
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