Read Categories

What you’re describing is a category list – controlled by your theme’s category.php template file. If your theme doesn’t have a category.php file, then it will be using archive.php or index.php (in that order).

I don’t have a category.php or archive.php, I am using the iBlog2 theme, my blog is https://itracki.com. Please help!!

anyone?

Then copy that theme’s index.php to category.php and delete the code you don’t want to display–for instance you would delete this so the post content would not display:
<?php the_content(__('Continue reading &raquo;',TDOMAIN)); ?>

Also review:
Stepping Into Template Tags
Stepping Into Templates
Template Hierarchy

Thanks for the quick reply, MichaelH.

So what you’re saying is that I have to create a template called category.php?

Maybe I didn’t make myself clear, but what I actually wanted is to have the post titles of all the posts in a category to be displayed ON A PAGE THAT I CREATED using WordPress. How is this done?

Thanks, please reply!

Put this in your Page Template

<?php
$cat_id = 3; //change to your category ID
$args=array(
  'cat' => $cat_id,
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  echo 'List of Posts';
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

MichaelH, I tested your solution and it works, but the problem is that you have to put the code in the Page Template (page.php). What I need is to put it into a page. For example, I created a page called “List of posts in category uncategorized.” I then need to put code in my post that would read out all the posts in this category, and put them into the page. I am not doing anything whatsoever with the template.

Could you please help?

Thanks!!

Then either use a PHP Code plugin such as https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/exec-php/ or plugins that allow shortcodes such as

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/simple-posts-list/
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/sb-child-list/