Using if statement to display info based on page title

hmmm. Well the code pasted above only has the code correct for shotguns. I hope it is that simple.

The other 3 need to be changed to “category_name=”, they are currently “category_name-“.

So, corrected would be:

<?php
	if (is_page('shotguns')) {
		query_posts('category_name=shotguns&showposts=10');
	} elseif (is_page('rifles')) {
		query_posts('category_name=rifles&showposts=10');
	} elseif (is_page('handguns')) {
		query_posts('category_name=handguns&showposts=10');
	} elseif (is_page('accessories')) {
		query_posts('category_name=accessories&showposts=10');
	}
?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	<div class="search-excerpt">
		<div class="excerpt"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>
		<p class="permalink"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">Read more...</a></p>
	</div>
	<p class="date"><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?>
	<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', ''); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments ?', '1 Comment ?', '% Comments ?'); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Hope that works.

Not sure if this would be ideal for you or not, but a, perhaps, more simplified way to do what you are doing, that would be a bit more dynamic would be like this:

<?php
	$page_name = $wp_query->post->post_name;
	query_posts('category_name='. $page_name);
?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	<div class="search-excerpt">
		<div class="excerpt"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>
		<p class="permalink"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">Read more&hellip;</a></p>
	</div>
	<p class="date"><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></p>
	<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', ''); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments ?', '1 Comment ?', '% Comments ?'); ?></p>
<?php endwhile; ?>

And if you wanted to limit it to certain pages, you could change the first part to this:

<?php
	if( is_page('shotguns') || is_page('rifles') || is_page('handguns') || is_page('accessories') ){
		$page_name = $wp_query->post->post_name;
		query_posts('category_name='. $page_name);
	}
?>

Thanks jcow,

I just arrived at the same conclusions myself. The actual problem was my ‘-‘ typo needed to be an ‘=’. That being said, I’m inclined to go with your variation as I’ve fiddled with a more cumbersome way of using the wp_query but I like your cleaner code instead. Thanks for the quick reply!

– Heath G.

@jcow or any one else that might know, I’ve come across another issue using query_posts in this way. Right now everything seems to work fine, but while using next/prev links, each subpage shows the same latest 10 entries rather than older/newer entries. I’ve included the full page code and a link to the site in hopes that someone can see my error.

<div id="main">
	<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
	<?php if (is_page('about') || is_page('shotguns') || is_page('rifles') || is_page('handguns') || is_page('accessories')) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>
		<div id="page-info"><?php the_content(); ?></div>
	<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	<?php				

		if( is_page('shotguns') || is_page('rifles') || is_page('handguns') || is_page('accessories') ){

			$page_name = $wp_query->post->post_name;
			query_posts('category_name='. $page_name);

		while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
			<div class="search-excerpt">
				<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
				<div class="excerpt"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>
				<p class="permalink"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">Read more...</a></p>
			</div>
			<p class="date"><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></p>
			<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
		<?php endwhile; }
	?>
	<!-- Page Navigation -->
	<div class="pages">
		<div class="newer"><?php previous_posts_link('&laquo; Previous 10 Entries'); ?></div>
		<div class="older"><?php next_posts_link('Next 10 Entries &raquo;'); ?></div>
	</div>
	<div class="pages-shown">
		<?php if (function_exists('wp_searchheader')) : ?>
		<?php wp_searchheader()?>
		<?php endif; ?>
	</div>
</div>

Link to site

Thanks in advance for any and all help