Page of posts Twenty Twelve

start by creating a child theme https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes if you haven’t done already.

for the ‘page of posts’ code, see my latest article:
https://www.transformationpowertools.com/wordpress/page-of-posts-template-for-twenty-twelve

Thanks for prompt response Achymyth!

The child theme was there.

Created a new folder pageofposts.php in child theme with code as website. Only changed category.

Created new page “Trial” and selected page of posts template.

Page does not show, gives server error.

Any ideas?

R

Amelie

apologies – the code got somehow partialy parsed in my site;

here is the (hopefully working) ‘page of posts’ code in a pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/yeGnRkbR

Amazingly quick reply Alchymyth!

All working now on https://www.ameliegale.com/offers/

Will go trough som eof your tips as they migght save some heartache https://www.transformationpowertools.com/wordpress/tips

R
Amelie
Still work in Progress

Next step, is it possible to NOT show Posts from the offers category on main page?
https://www.ameliegale.com/

R
Amelie

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts#Example:_Exclude_categories_on_your_main_page

in functions.php of your child theme, add:

function main_page_exclude_category_offers( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
	$cat_offers = get_term_by('slug','offers','category');
//exclude posts of the category 'offers' from the main page//
        $query->set( 'cat', '-'.$cat_offers->term_id );
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','main_page_exclude_category_offers');

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_term_by

Marvellous!

Thanks very much

R

Amelie

This thread was a massive help, thanks so much!

Is there a way to display the page content in addition to the posts? I’m trying to create a page template that will display the contents of the page next to the list of posts.

@mazumi

please start a new topic – your question is considerably different from the original topic.

That was going to be my next question, please can you let me know the answer Mazumi/Alchymyth.

R
Amelie

@alchymyth

When I excluded 1 category this worked great:

/* Exclude category'viewer-video-requests' from the Blog Page */
function main_page_exclude_category_offers( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
	$cat_offers = get_term_by('slug','viewer-video-requests','category');
        $query->set( 'cat', '-'.$cat_offers->term_id );
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','main_page_exclude_category_offers');

Now, I want to exclude 2 categories & tried this, but it didn’t work:

/* Exclude category'viewer-video-requests' from the Blog Page */
function main_page_exclude_category_offers( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
	$cat_offers = get_term_by('slug','viewer-video-requests','category');
        $query->set( 'cat', '-'.$cat_offers->term_id );
    }
    else if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
	$cat_offers = get_term_by('slug','closed-viewer-video-requests','category');
        $query->set( 'cat', '-'.$cat_offers->term_id );
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','main_page_exclude_category_offers');

I’m a PHP dummy. Can anyone offer any help? I need to exclude 2 categories. Thank you!!!

@brookebot

please start a new topic in the theme’s support section https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/twentytwelve (scroll down to the input form)