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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,
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.
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
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.