What’s wrong with my code? (conditional statements)

  • Resolved tjobbe

    (@tjobbe)


    14 years, 11 months ago

    OK, what I’m trying to do is have a PAGE as my home page in wordpress, this I have enabled in the settings.

    On the home page I would also like to show the latest three posts from a specific category. There will not be a sidebar.

    I only want the three posts to show up on the home page, along with whatever content the home page has. Is this possible?

    So I’d have a conditional statement that says, “if it’s the home page, show the content AND the latest 3 posts from category 3” OR “just show the page content”

    This code sort of does that, but somehow shows whatever is in my ELSE statement too.

    What have I done wrong?

    <?php get_header(); ?>

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

<?php if (is_front_page()) { ?>
	<div id="content">
		<div class="entry">
			<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
			<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
		</div>
	</div>
	<?php
    $blog_query = 'showposts=3&cat=3&paged='.$paged;
	$posts = query_posts($blog_query);
	while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

	<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<div id="content">
	<div class="entry">
	<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
	<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
	</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>
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  • Thread Starter tjobbe

    (@tjobbe)

    Right, so I’ve now edited the above code slightly, and it does give me pages as I want them – except for the home page.

    The home page now shows me an empty <div id=”sidebar”></div> as well as a populated one – which is what I want.

    I don’t understand why I’m getting this empty sidebar div in my html?

    Sorry, testing locally so unable to provide a link, but here’s my page.php:

    <?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">
	<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

	<?php if (is_front_page()) { ?>
	<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
	<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
	<?php
	$blog_query = 'showposts=3&cat=3&paged='.$paged;
	$posts = query_posts($blog_query);
	while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
</div>
<div id="sideBar">
	<?php endwhile; ?>
	<?php } else { ?>

	<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
	<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
	<?php } ?>

	<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>
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