Title: user variable input for pages
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# user variable input for pages

 *  [spencerpad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spencerpad/)
 * (@spencerpad)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-variable-input-for-pages/)
 * There may be a better way to do this but..
 * I am trying to develop a page that shows a list of excerpts from a category pertinent
   to the page, then content below the list of posts.
 * The trouble I am having is I have a ton of categories and I will have more coming
   in. I am trying to avoid having to make a new page template for each.
 * Is there a way I can make some kind of input box to choose the category variable
   on the page editor so I can assign the category for each page to display?

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 *  [Denis Leblanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snapsize/)
 * (@snapsize)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-variable-input-for-pages/#post-2750168)
 * Just a custom field with a value of the category slug you want to loop through
   before the page content. In the page template you can just run a WP_query with
   the custom field value, reset the query at the end and then run the page loop.
 *  Thread Starter [spencerpad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spencerpad/)
 * (@spencerpad)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-variable-input-for-pages/#post-2750173)
 * Awesome, thanks.
    for some reason I thought custom fields were for posts only.
 *  [Denis Leblanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snapsize/)
 * (@snapsize)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-variable-input-for-pages/#post-2750175)
 * Not at all. If you don’t see the ‘custom fields’ section in one of your pages
   just toggle the ‘screen options’ tab at the top right of the page and check the‘
   Custom Fields’ box.

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 * Last reply from: [Denis Leblanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snapsize/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-variable-input-for-pages/#post-2750175)
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