Creating a page which lists posts from a specific category.

Tagged: page post wordpress attitudepro

This topic has 5 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 3 months ago by Theme Horse Support Team.

Viewing 6 posts - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

Author

Posts
August 11, 2015 at 2:31 am #27147

craig.haydon
Participant

Hi Guys,
We are using the Attitude Pro theme and were wondering if its possible to setup a “page” (lets call it page-lifestyle.php) that lists only posts from a specific category?
Essentially the page would like identical to the home page except the posts are filtered.

Example:
http://www.mysite.com/interiors (list posts with category “interiors”)
http://www.mysite.com/design (list posts with category “design”)
http://www.mysite.com/lifestyle (list posts with category “lifestyle”)

Is this doable? If so.. how would one go about setting up?

August 11, 2015 at 5:46 am #27154

Theme Horse Support Team
Keymaster

Hi craig.haydon,

We cannot provide any support on the custom file that you have created. You need to hire a developer to fix it.

Thank you!

August 11, 2015 at 5:49 am #27155

craig.haydon
Participant

Hi Theme Horse Support Team.
I haven’t created a custom file, i am wanting to work within the bounds of the theme.
Thanks

August 11, 2015 at 6:18 am #27156
Theme Horse Support Team
Keymaster
Hi craig.haydon,
```
 <?php $args = array(
	'posts_per_page'   => 5,
	'offset'           => 0,
	'category'         => '',
	'category_name'    => '',
	'orderby'          => 'date',
	'order'            => 'DESC',
	'include'          => '',
	'exclude'          => '',
	'meta_key'         => '',
	'meta_value'       => '',
	'post_type'        => 'post',
	'post_mime_type'   => '',
	'post_parent'      => '',
	'author'	   => '',
	'post_status'      => 'publish',
	'suppress_filters' => true 
);
$posts_array = get_posts( $args ); ?>
```
You can use the above code and add the category name in 'category' => ''

View this link https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts

If you want to show different page with different category then you can create a template and then customize the code. Create a template and customize the code.

First of all create a child theme and then customize the code. Otherwise your customized code will be lost while updating to new version.

It needs lots of coding so you need to hire a developer. If you are good at coding then you can customize the code too.

Thank you!
August 14, 2015 at 1:19 am #27279
craig.haydon
Participant
Hi TH,
Unfortunately the get_posts (from above) didn’t work. (or at least i wasn’t able to get to work).
This is what i did to fix my question, and perhaps it will help other newbies like me.
1) created a new page template. (copy page.php and rename to page-template-page-blog.php)
2) added text (line 3) to the above new file (so its shows in WP admin). “* Template Name: Page with blog posts(cat=slug)”. You really can call it anything. The text that you enter here is what shows in WP admin (dashboard) in the page -> template (dropdown)
3) changed description to ‘* Displays posts in page based on slug’. This isn’t really necessary… but will help to remind you later what it does 🙂
4) modified content-extensions.php (its under library > structure) function attitude_theloop(){, so it now looks like this:
```
function attitude_theloop() {
	global $post;
	if( is_page() ) {
		if( is_page_template( 'page-template-blog-image-large.php' ) ) {
			attitude_theloop_for_template_blog_image_large();
		}
		elseif( is_page_template( 'page-template-blog-image-medium.php' ) ) {
			attitude_theloop_for_template_blog_image_medium();
		}
		elseif( is_page_template( 'page-template-blog-full-content.php' ) ) {
			attitude_theloop_for_template_blog_full_content();
		}
		elseif( is_page_template( 'page-template-page-blog.php' ) ) {
			$categ = $post->post_name;
			query_posts( "category_name=$categ&posts_per_page=10" );
			attitude_theloop_for_archive();
		}
		else {
			attitude_theloop_for_page();
		}
	}
	elseif( is_single() ) {
		attitude_theloop_for_single();
	}
	elseif( is_search() ) {
		attitude_theloop_for_search();
	}
	else {
		attitude_theloop_for_archive();
	}
}
```
5) back in wp-admin, go to the page you want to change, and change its template to ‘Page with blog posts(cat=slug)’.

There’s probable an even easier or better way to do this, but this is what worked for me… 🙂

Enjoy
August 14, 2015 at 7:05 am #27298

Theme Horse Support Team
Keymaster

Thanks for sharing with us craig.haydon

Thank you!
Author

Posts

Viewing 6 posts - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Biggest Sale! Special Offer!

Get 30% discount on all of our single themes with this coupon code: #30%SALE

Theme Horse

Creating a page which lists posts from a specific category.