I am kinda unlucky to find a proper solution in order to display posts by their category. I made a page template that should be supposted to be used in order to display posts by category.
Lets say there is a page "Cats" and page "Dogs" and the same named categories for posts are created and assigned depending on either it is cats or dogs.
How to loop through that?
It should follow dynamics to loop posts of category that is named the same as page title(all those pages using same page template). This should solve the case when you need new page for new category and you don't want to dig into the code and so on.
I would really appreciate the help. Thanks in forward!
If you follow the WordPress template hierarchy, you simply need to name a template file with the category name.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
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Hello WordPress developers, When a user click on a post so in sidebar all posts should be show to that related category at which the user has clicked ( Not on category but on post).
I want this feature for my own website please help me.
My Website link: www.unicodea.com
The easiest way to display a list of the categories a post belongs to is with the_category().
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_category
If you want to print the categories in your own custom way, then you can simply fetch them with get_the_category() and do what you want to do with them. get_the_category() can also be used outside the main loop by passing in the post's id.
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_category/
As the title suggests, I'm trying to use one category.php file for every category registered by a user in the back-end. I've always created category-[specific category].php files in the past but this feels very messy as the design usually remains the same.
Without being specific in the query I return all posts in all categories however, I want to be able to show the custom posts for only the category selected from the nav. The problem is, I can't seem to find a way to pass the category the user selected into the query in order to only return posts attributed to it.
Thanks in advance for any help.
You don't need to do anything specific to show a list of posts from a specific category. Take a look at this article on the WordPress Codex. Here is an excerpt from that page:
In the case of categories, the hierarchy is fairly simple. For
instance, suppose the slug of the Category in question is news and the
Category ID is 6. The Template Hierarchy specifies that WordPress will
use the first Template file it finds in your current Theme's directory
from the following list:
category-slug.php
category-ID.php
category.php
archive.php
index.php
So all you need to do is create category.php in your theme and then view any category and it'll use that template. You can then use is_category() to check which category is currently being used if you want to do custom things depending on the category.
I have a WordPress for my science journalism blog and I would like to add a page that contains a subset of the blog posts. For example, having a page populated by a certain category (i.e. review articles) or tags (i.e. physics).
There seems to be a way to do this by making a new php page, but I am not sure how to get to a blank template to add the code base.
Alternatively, I would prefer having a way to do this without having to mess with the code at all. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
This happens automatically with WordPress; read the docs:
When a viewer clicks on a link to one of the Categories on your site,
he or she is taken to a page listing the Posts in that particular
Category in chronological order, from newest Posts at the top to
oldest at the bottom.
Read https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
You don't have to make a category or tag template page, but you can if you want to. This is theme-dependent; your theme may already have different archive page templates.
The URL for a category or tag archive page will be:
example.net/category_base/category_name
example.net/tag_base/tag_name
Read https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Category_base_and_Tag_base
Go to Appearance>Settings>Reading to set number of posts per page and either excerpt or full post.
I think you should be able to get at a category by going to http://example.com/category/mycategory
And to tags by visiting http://example.com/tag/mytag
You should be able to add categories to the main menu, and add tag pages via a custom link OR use a tag cloud?
Hope this helps.
There is an issue with wordpress menu, I'll be very grateful if you help me.
See please screenshot.
Menu item "Destinations" is a category. "Elbrus 5642", "Baikal lake", is sub categories for 'Destinations'. And in every sub category I need to show posts for that sub category.
I thought to do it manually in code, e.g. call posts in sub category "Elbrus 5642" with query posts. But that way I need to every time change my code when I add or remove sub categories. Is there any method, which allow to automate this process, e.g. I adding some sub category in menu admin panel, creating some posts for that sub category and they are automatically added in menu?
Thanks for any advice.
Try this plugin, I think it's what you need.
I am having issue with a custom category template. I want to create a new template for my specific category "VIDEOS" so that all posts under this category show in new style. Basically, i want to show posts with videos in a new way as 3 posts in one row with featured images and a featured slider on top of that page showing 4 new posts of that category ?
But i am confused... Can i do this in wordpress ? Because my home page also has a featured slider. Can i create a new slider for that page template but one thing is sure. I need to work with only one category for that custom template i.e. videos.........
Just create category-[id].php & you will be ready to use that. Wordpress will automatically load that file for that ID of category.
You can also do same task via slug like category-files.php etc as well
Yes, certainly possible with WordPress.
Find the slug or the category id. Your slug for the category may be videos. So create a custom template named category-videos.php. This template will be used for the category archive VIDEOS.
If you know the category id, you can create template named category-<category_id>.php.
For other people landing on this page and wondering what to do when they go to their theme's folder and don't find a file called "category.php", what you need is to find the next file in the hierarchy, copy it, and rename it category-[slug or id].php (this should be archive.php, followed by index.php).
For a listing of the category hierarchy, see the official documentation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates