Showing just one category WITHOUT using the cat-ID

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/User:JamesVL/query_posts

Thanks GamerZ for your post but all I tried does not work. I am using this code:

<table border="0">
  <td>

    <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

    <?php query_posts('cat=13'); ?>

    <?php endwhile; else: ?>
    <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
    <?php endif; ?>

  </td>
</table>

It should show me all content (headlines with possibility to click on it) of category 13.

Any suggestions? Thanks, Karin

Put that initial code of yours

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    <h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
    </h3>

<?php endwhile; ?>

in a file called category-13.php and when you click on the name/link of cat 13 WP will know to show only posts from that category.
More: Category_Templates
(actually, clicking on any category name should bring up only posts from that category – doesn’t that work for you?)

Thanks moshu.

For some reasons this will not work. I dont want to create a file called category-13.php because everything is working fine within wordpress and i dont want to have different styles within my categorys.

But I want to create a “plugin” which I can use on other static HTML pages. For example:
I have a normal HTML page about fire in forrests. Then I want to include a box
(<? include (“https://[mywebpage]/directoryofwordpress/fire.php&#8221;); ?>)
with all my blog entries about the topic fire (category=13). So within this fire.php file all blog entries should be shown.

Possible?

That will never work on a “normal” html file. You cannot use a PHP include command in a html file.

That was a missunderstanding. I just wanted to say that the “normal HTML page” is NOT a database. Of course it is a php-page, but it is not located in the wp-folder. So I have to use the php-include-tag.

Sorry ??

I still wouldn’t use any includes…
Just take that your non-WP php file, whatever.php – and on the top add this, before anything else:

<?php
require('./path-to-your-blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

Then, where you want the list of posts from cat 13, put in this:

<?php query_posts('category_name=fire'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
        <ul>
           <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
        </ul>
  </div>

I am sorry Moshu that I am too stupid to do it ?? Maybe because i am a woman, hihihi!!!

I am currently using this code within my non-WP-file:

<?php
require('https://www.[domain]/database/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

<?php query_posts('cat=23'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
        <ul>
           <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
        </ul>
  </div>

But then I receive an errormessage “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in “

Why does it not work???? I am getting crazy ??

try this code:

<?php query_posts('cat=13'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    <h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
      <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
    </h3>
    <?php endwhile; else: ?>
    <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
    <?php endif; ?>