linusj

you would use templates for individual pages in 2.8.

if you create a “mypagetemplate.php” file in your theme folder and place at the very top of this file – this code:

<?php
/*
Template Name: mypagetemplate.php
*/
?>

wordpress automatically interprets it as a template file that you can assign to individual pages.

(tip: copy paste the index file code into your template, just to have something to work with…)

This page may then be filtered for different categories by using either query_posts calls or in_category calls in the template file.
read the help files for each function.

it is all very clear as sausage water 😉

*edit: There is a strong reason to use query_posts instead of in_category, because ‘the loop’ still counts up using the in_category call, and if you have 10 non category in a row, your page won’t display anything, while the query_post will display a clean 10 post regardless, (if that is your setting) everytime and anytime…

I was filtering posts on a single page with the function call ‘query_posts’ and noticed after a while the same problem as the original poster (Dunkkan) – the unabillity to sift through older and newer posts with the next_posts_link or previous_posts_link call, and it was easily addressed to the query_post function, since if I turned it off, everything worked fine.

this seems to solve it. I’m not sure for how long though, since I’m quite novice to php and wordpress altogether. I make of use of the get_query_var and dynamically add the appropriate paged number to the offset variable.

<?php
    //get the categories...
    $submissions = get_cat_ID( 'submissions' );
    $inspiration = get_cat_ID( 'inspiration' );
    $finalist = get_cat_ID( 'finalist' );
    $crew = get_cat_ID( 'crew' );

	if(intval(get_query_var('paged'))>1){
		$offset = '&offset='.((get_query_var('paged')-1)*10);
	}else{
		$offset = '&offset=0';
	}

	$querystring = 'cat='. $submissions.','.$inspiration.','.$finalist.','.$offset;
	?>

    <!--begin query-->
    <?php query_posts($querystring.'&showposts=10'); ?>

	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>...

...<?php endif; ?>

    <!--end query-->
    <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>