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I have posts which i would like to put in to 3 categories News, Events, and Press Releases, then i have three pages which are using the same template. I would like to display those posts on to relevant pages so News posts on News page etc. Could someone tell me what would be the best way to do that.

I guess its something easy but I'm fairly new to Wordpress.

Many thanks,

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You could simply use the category pages WordPress generates using the category.php template, or category-{slug}.php. If you don't like the /category/categoryname/ url format WP uses, there are a few plugins that remove the category base- I use Yoast SEO plugin for this, which gives you lots of other great features on top.

Your other option is to create a special template for these pages with some additional code to load posts from your category. The WP Codex actually has exactly this code for you already, using a custom field on each page to designate which category you'd like it to load.

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  • Thanks for your replay Milo I was thinking more about approche like that if ( is_page('news') ) { query_posts('cat=7'); } elseif is_page('events') ) { query_posts('cat=9'); } <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php the_title(); ?> <?php the_content(); ?> <?php endwhile;?> but for some reason that doesn't work
    – jmysona
    Jun 12, 2011 at 12:17
  • is this the only loop on your page or are you displaying the page's content above this in the template via another loop? query_posts is for modifying the main query on a page, not for multiple loops. you'll get unpredictable results due to global variables being set up for your original query. WP_Query should be used instead for additional loops. otherwise, it should work, though paging won't unless you explicitly retrieve and pass the paged variable. again, have a look at the code I posted from the Codex, and look up the differences between query_posts and WP_Query.
    – Milo
    Jun 12, 2011 at 15:44
  • That is the only loop on that particular template
    – jmysona
    Jun 12, 2011 at 17:13
  • ok i managed to to it simply just like that '<?php if (is_page('News in brief')){ ?> <?php query_posts('posts_per_page=5&category_name=news&paged='.$paged); ?> ...' Thanks for all your help
    – jmysona
    Jun 15, 2011 at 13:51

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