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It needs to appear on the HOME page, and on the CITIES page.

Putting it in two categories causes it to be posted twice to the home page.

Any solution for that???

THANK YOU!

I’m doing something wrong, but I’m getting closer.

Here’s what I did:

I created a WP page called CITIES.

I also created a category called CITIES.

I created a post and assigned it to two categories: CITIES and HOME.
(My customer wants text on the nav bar to be in upper case.)

I pasted the single.php template into Notepad.

Above if (have_posts()) I pasted
query_posts(‘category_name=CITIES&showposts=12’);

the_excerpt();

Gave the name cities.php to this result:

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I put cities.php in the currently active theme folder.

But the CITIES page is still blank. http://cultureblog.modelpeopleinc.com/cities/

Apologies for being so clue-less. I’m still reading codex files, but maybe somebody will take pity on a moron.

(I’ll try index.php now too.)

I meant the snip above:

<?php
query_posts('category_name=HOME&showposts=12');
while (have_posts()) :
the_post();
?>

I think that is for pulling the posts from a category of the name Home, and to show the 12 most recent posts from that category.

Also need to figure out how to get it to display the post’s excerpt.
(To make the excerpt, each post will use <–more–> in Add Post.)

I think I’m getting closer to finding what snip to use for the excerpt, but I don’t know how this fits together, or where to use it with the query_posts snip above.

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

For “Read more…” I’m reading the snip would be something like:

<?php
function excerpt_ellipse($text) {
   return str_replace('[...]', ' <a href="'.get_permalink().'">Read more...</a>', $text); }
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'excerpt_ellipse');
?>

But where to put this so I can start testing it… that might be the question…

sincere thanks.

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The codex says:

Toward the bottom of the Write > Page administration panel (or on the sidebar, depending on which version of WordPress you are using) is a drop-down labeled “Page Template.” From there you can select which Template will be used when displaying this particular Page.

(by the way, in 3.1, the Page Template under Appearance/Editor.)

Sorry that I think I need to be spoon-fed on this.

I am thinking of

1. starting with the Page template here and pasting it into Notepad.

2. pasting this code in there somewhere: BUT WHERE?
<?php
query_posts(‘category_name=HOME&showposts=12’);
while (have_posts()) :
the_post();
?>

3. Saving this file with the same name as the category_name attribute. I.e., home.php (All my page names are going to match the category names whose content the pages need to display.)

4. Putting this home.php file in my themes folder.

Is this pretty much it?

Huge thanks.