Hi,
First off, thanks for the new release.
I am trying to limit the posts displayed using template-page-blog.php to just one category, but I am struggling.
I have tried adding a category to the query like this -
<?php
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query( array( 'category=21, posts_per_page' => get_option( 'posts_per_page' ), 'paged' => $paged ) );
$more = 0;
?>But it seems to be the wrong way to go about it.
it is the right way to do it, but 'category' is not a recognized parameter
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
try cat=21
Thanks Helga, I already tried that aswell but unfortunately neither seems to work. Is this something I am doing wrong or a limitation of wordpress/thematic?
tried
category_name=blahThanks Jonny, yeah I tried that too with no success.
@chips
i tried the following and it works
<?php
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query( array(
'category_name' => 'category-21',
'posts_per_page' => get_option( 'posts_per_page' ),
'paged' => $paged ) );
$more = 0;
?>maybe i shouldn't have called the category i tested 'category 21', may confuse matters.
so bsically,
add
'category_name' => 'mycategoryname',Hi Jonny,
Thanks again for your help. It worked perfectly, although I used instead;
'cat' => '21'
Great!
Thanks ;o)
sweet. 21 is the magic number
I have also had ago at doing this but I am only getting the first 4 or 5 lines of the post showing up on my single category page. The first few lines are followed by [...] which would be ok ish if it were clickable to the single page version. On my main news page that shows all the categories except this one (cat 5) I see the whole post. Any ideas why?
citizenplane
Member
Hi all,
@jonny this works for me:
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query( array(
'category_name' => 'category-21',
'posts_per_page' => get_option( 'posts_per_page' ),
'paged' => $paged ) );
$more = 0;
But for some reason the page shows only the latest post in that category.
Am I missing some parameter that limits the displayed results?
Thanks again
pnett
Member
Hi. Similar issues on my site as well. Only I can get it to work, but.. my sidebar disappears!
I added this code to functions.php so that I can display the full post:
function childtheme_content($content) {
if (is_category('blog')) {
$content= 'full';
}
return $content;
}
add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');
In my template-page-blog.php I made this adjustment:
<?php
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query( array( 'posts_per_page' => get_option( 'posts_per_page' ), 'paged' => $paged, 'category_name' => 'blog' ) );
$more = 0;
?>
Now, it works, I get my full post from the 'blog' category, but, my the sidebar stops showing up. Any ideas?
Here is a link:
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