If you have the desire to customize your WordPress blog, and have attempted it, you surely know that it is a pain sometimes.
I was trying to cutomize my category pages to show the most recent post for that category, and only posts for that category.
- Create a file called category.php in your theme’s directory.
- This will default WordPress to use this page for categories from now on.
- For showing only the most recent post with this category: Use this code:
<?php
get_header();
//the following gets an array of the categories for this post
$get_cat = get_the_category();
//the following will get the first category for your post and create a WordPress query that uses “The Loop” to show the most
// recent post from that category
$q = ‘cat=’.$get_cat[0]->cat_ID.’&showposts=1′;
$my_query = new WP_Query($q);
//the rest is just like everywhere else that you show posts on your blog
if($my_query->have_posts()){
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
?>
<h2>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</h2>
<?php
the_content(’Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>
<?php
endwhile;
}else{
?>
<h2 class=”center”>Not Found</h2>
<p class=”center”>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.</p>
<?php
}get_footer();
?>
- For showing the only post with this category or showing the titles only if there are multiple posts: Use this code:
<?php
get_header();
$get_cat = get_the_category();
$q = ‘cat=’.$get_cat[0]->cat_ID.’&showposts=1′;
$my_query = new WP_Query($q);
if($my_query->have_posts()){
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
?>
<h2>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</h2>
<?php
//this is all I added to the previous one, it checks to see how many posts there are
if(count($posts) > 1){
the_content(’Read the rest of this entry »’);
}
?><?php
endwhile;
}else{
?>
<h2 class=”center”>Not Found</h2>
<p class=”center”>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.</p>
<?php
}get_footer();
?>
Now you can add the other normal wordpress template tags in these, just place them and try it out.
Note: The best Codex page I found for templating is here: The WordPress Loop
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