Title: dcochran's Replies | WordPress.org --- # dcochran [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Multiple Pages with Multiple Posts from Multiple Categories?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/page/2/#post-521439) * Sorry. We’re working on the footer now and will get those in! * I do want folks to know we’re doing this with wordpress. Just been trying to get the thing fully functional and lost track of that. Thanks for the prod. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Multiple Pages with Multiple Posts from Multiple Categories?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/page/2/#post-521437) * Yes! That’s the kind of stuff I’m needing. Thank you. I’ll dig around, try it out, and report back. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Multiple Pages with Multiple Posts from Multiple Categories?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/page/2/#post-521435) * moshu – * That looks like it’s more on track. I’ll try it out and see … * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Multiple Pages with Multiple Posts from Multiple Categories?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/page/2/#post-521433) * Otto42, I understand what you’ve suggested. I’ve read all about pages, I’ve created new page templates, and I have selected these templates for new WordPress Pages. * What these pages will not do is pull posts from multiple categories into the same page. This is what I want to be able to do. * I know WordPress does not typically do this. I want to know if there is a way to _make_ WordPress do this. Apparently I’ve got to do some hacking. How do I hack it and where? * As for what kind of loops I am using — they are loops which begin like this. * ``` ``` * Each one is set to pull posts from a specific category. I have several of these loops running in the index.php, each with a different category number, and together they populate my homepage with multiple posts from multiple categories, each in its own section of the homepage. * Now I want other pages, besides just the homepage, which also enable me to fill out the page with various sections, each section populated by posts from a different category. Thus, these other pages will, like my index, contain multiple posts coming from multiple categories. I am assuming these can’t be WordPress Pages, and they can’t be category archives — or if they can be, then I have to modify the way WordPress works. * Where do I modify, and how? * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Multiple Pages with Multiple Posts from Multiple Categories?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/#post-521431) * And so to clarify, what I get when I try to do this as bryan868 first suggested [is this](http://okwueagle.com/wp-content/themes/okwueagle-spring07/stepup.php). * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Multiple Pages with Multiple Posts from Multiple Categories?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/#post-521430) * Thanks to all for jumping back in here with me. * To try to make it more specific: * My current index.php places posts of category sub-features within a sub-features div which I position in the top left sidebar. Under that I have a loop pulling posts of category announcements. Then I have a loop pulling posts of category features, which I’ve positioned at the top of the center column. Under features is a loop pulling posts from the category Homepage Highlights … and on it goes. * Now I want MORE such files, in which I pull posts from multiple categories and place them in various places on the same web page. I do not need to create these as WordPress pages. I only want to be able to make a copy of index.php and change up the categories of the posts which get pulled in by the various loops. * Besides index.php, I would like to have campus-life.php that does this, and academics. php, and eventually more. Each of these would have a complex layout, like my current index.php — placing posts from various categories in various places on the web page. * I’ve tried this, but the loops don’t work. And when I place the file in the theme folder, the URL goes to the file in the theme folder (which is extraordinarily long and awkward), and the loops still don’t work. * Is there a way to tell wordpress to treat these new multi-category template files like it treats index.php? — connecting it to an address on the main site structure( i.e., [http://okwueagle.com/campus-life.php](http://okwueagle.com/campus-life.php))— and allowing it to pull posts from multiple categories into various places in the same page? * By the way, there is no 404 page working yet (I’m working on that), and so when you go to a page that isn’t there, you get the index: * [http://okwueagle.com/](http://okwueagle.com/) * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Multiple Pages with Multiple Posts from Multiple Categories?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/#post-521421) * Did I stump the community? * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Multiple Pages with Multiple Posts from Multiple Categories?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/#post-521362) * Just checking back — Is there a way to do this? * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Multiple Pages with Multiple Posts from Multiple Categories?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-pages-with-multiple-posts-from-multiple-categories/#post-521111) * Thanks. I’m trying that out. I’m having trouble. * I’ve created a stepup.php based on index.php and saved it in the same theme folder as my functioning index.php. * I have two problems: * 1) The URL to get to this file is very long and unwieldy. * 2) The template tags aren’t connecting to the database. I get an error on each bloginfo item in the head … and so I got read of those, replacing them with straight code. Now it gets to the loops, but the loops aren’t working. I get error messages every time. * > `Fatal error: Call to undefined function: have_posts() in /home/.pause/okwueagle/ > okwueagle.com/wp-content/themes/okwueagle-spring07/stepup.php on line 14` * Here’s [the URL to this file](http://okwueagle.com/wp-content/themes/okwueagle-spring07/stepup.php). * [http://okwueagle.com/wp-content/themes/okwueagle-spring07/stepup.php](http://okwueagle.com/wp-content/themes/okwueagle-spring07/stepup.php) * How can I solve these two issues? * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Display a Specific Custom Field](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-a-specific-custom-field/) * Thread Starter [dcochran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcochran/) * (@dcochran) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-a-specific-custom-field/#post-469410) * It works great! Thanks. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)