dumb wordpress question

[bigmanoren]

Really dumb question.

I have a ton of posts, with different categories. I know how to make different pages, but is there anyway to make different pages that pull certain categories, so those pages ONLY show posts from those categories?

 

[MattDunbar]

You could modify your template to link to a category, or find/pay someone to write an addon for you (points to self if you do decent writing and want to exchange the code for written content).

 

[radio]

Make a page template - then query the posts.

Query by category number:

<?php 
    query_posts('cat=4'); ?>

    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    //do stuff
    <?php endwhile; ?>

Query by category name

 <?php 
     query_posts('category_name=yourCategoryName'); ?>
 
     <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
     //do stuff
     <?php endwhile; ?>

what your //do stuff might be I don't know - might be this though:

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
                <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
                <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>

                <div class="entry">
                    <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?>
                </div>

                <p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
            </div>

 

[abhorrent]

I do this on one of my sites. Kind of like what radio posted but slightly different.

So say for a category called "cars". Make a copy of page.php, rename it to cars.php and add/replace with this...

[COLOR=Yellow][I]This goes first[/I][/COLOR]
<?php/*
Template Name: cars.php
*/
?>
[COLOR=Yellow]//[/COLOR]
<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar.php");?>

<?php
if (is_page('[COLOR=Yellow]PAGEID[/COLOR]')) {
query_posts('cat=[COLOR=Yellow]CATID[/COLOR]');
}
?>
    <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
//do stuff
<?php endwhile; ?>

Upload cars.php, create a page called "cars" and select cars.phh as your template for that page. That's it!

Not sure if there's much of a difference but it works so I use it.