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AlCapone

Hi, i have created a page and i want to load all the post with in a specific catagory, anyone know how?
Many Thanks
Chris

apostrophe

:?: Can you be a bit more specific. Are you talking about Wordpress?

AlCapone

Yeah, sorry, i am using the newest version of wordpress. Basicaly i want to create the page that shows all the posts from one catagory, i am aware that you can type in 'mysite.com/catagory/hobbies', but as far as i am aware, that url uses the 'archive.php' file. Which is also used for the archives (obviosly), the problem with this is that i want the archives and this new page to be styled differantly. So i created a new page and gave it a template, and now im trying to work out how to loads the posts into the new page.

Wooo..... sorry and thanks!

apostrophe

Just checking before I gave you my 2 cents worth. :D

It's best to keep posts and pages separate. You are on the right lines creating a link to that specific category, if you want it to display differently from all the other categories then you can make a custom category template.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

Hope that helps.

AlCapone

Great, that realy helped. One other thing though.I'm pritty sure it was either a article of tutorial on this site, but it was about using a php code to chane the 'body' id on the page so that current tabscan be selected. This is the code i have.


                $page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
		$page = str_replace(\"/\" , \"\", $page);
		$page = str_replace(\".php\" , \"\", $page);
		$page = str_replace(\"?s=\" , \"\", $page);
		$page = $page ? $page : 'default'

Can someone please explain it to me because i have know idea how to edit it to work with my pages, my url is mysite.com/categories/videos.
Many Thanks
Chris

AlCapone

Also, is there a way to filter the results in 'the loop' so it only shows results from a certain category.

Many THanks
Chris

apostrophe

There's a nice little tutorial on changing the body id here http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/2008/wordpress-tutorialhow-to-apply-a-dynamic-body-class-or-id/

Not sure what you are asking with your second question. Where are you trying to show your results from a certain category?

AlCapone

Thanks, ill look into thatlink, as for the other question, dont worry, i have solved it with a if in category function.

Roughnite

im pretty sure simplepie plugin should do what you want, it lets you post everything from a specific category into a static page

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