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1. 

   tg_harris
   Member

   OK, seriously people, I need help.

   I know just enough PHP to get into trouble. My new commercial blog concept has a "news" page and a "product reviews" page, both based on the Thematic Blog page filtered by post category: "news" and "reviews" respectively.

   I created new News Page and Reviews Page templates like so:

   
/**
Template Name: News Page
*
* This template allows you to display the latest posts marked "news".
*
*/
...
?>


   The reviews page is coded similarly. The first problem I found is that when I created these new template pages, naming them template-page-newspage.php and template-page-newspage.php, the new templates did not show up in the drop-down list of templates in the "Edit Page" page.

   Why are the new page templates not available?

   Next, on each of the new template pages I replaced the standard thematic_indexloop() call with a call to a custom loop with a category filter, e.g. news_page_indexloop()
   that calls this in functions.php

   
// Create a new indexloop function for the News page template.
function news_page_indexloop() {
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: endif; ?>
<?php query_posts(‘category_name=news&post_status=publish,future’);?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<h2>”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: endif;
}


   Which brings me to my second problem: they break my functions.php with an unexpected "=" in the query_posts line, so I have to comment them out. The code seems solid, where did I mess up?

   I can't seem to figure out why these problems are occuring. Can anyone help me figure this out?

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   tg_harris
   Member

   OK, so I think I don't need special functions based on what I learned here:

   http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/using-template-page-blogphp-to-show-specific-categories

   But still, the new template pages are not recognized.

   What am I doing wrong?

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   Jonny Janiero
   Member

   it should be working. the template is included (first level) of your child theme?
   in your first post, you miss the opening "<?php" tag in your example. check that.
   

   <?php
   /**
    * Template Name: My New Template
    */
   ?>

   otherwise, this should be working

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   tg_harris
   Member

   I tried a solution I found on Elite Freelancing.com: Activate a different theme--I used Thematic--then switch back to my new theme. Wordpress found the new page templates.

   My reviews page template is working exactly as I want it to. But my news page template still comes up as the old blog page, despite identical coding as the reviews page, save for the search criteria:

   
template-page-newspage.php

   <snip>
   <?php
   $wp_query = new WP_Query();
   $wp_query->query( array(
   'category_name' => 'news',
   'posts_per_page' => get_option( 'posts_per_page' ),
   'paged' => $paged ) );
   $more = 0;
   ?>
   </snip>

   template-page-reviewspage.php

   <snip>
<?php
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query( array(
'category_name' => 'reviews',
'posts_per_page' => get_option( 'posts_per_page' ),
'paged' => $paged ) );
$more = 0;
?>
</snip>


   Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Can I also search by tag?

   Thank you.

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. 

   tg_harris
   Member

   DERP!

   I tried changing the read settings so "news" is not my "posts" page. It works better now.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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