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Really the main problem here is that WordPress is not designed to support the kind of object oriented approach to building a site/application that has a number of different data models that have parent-child relationships. But if someone has a good solution that doesn’t require a plugin or creating “fake pages”, I’d love to hear it. End rant.

@thescube I’ll check out the article, looks like it might be a solution to this issue. I personally don’t know much about the rewrite api, so for the time being I try to avoid using it until I learn more about how it actually works.

The solution I used was to install a plugin named Timber and I used the routing capabilities that come along with it. You can read about it here. Basically, how routing works is you assign templates to url patterns.

For all I know, that might be what the article is describing.

Was able to fix it using this code instead, couldn’t figure out what was wrong though. Been coding too long to see what I’m getting wrong…

<?php $query = new WP_Query('category_name=press-release&showposts=15'); ?>
      <?php while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); ?>
        <div class="BlogPost pr">
          <?php
            $image = get_field( 'pr_image' );
            if ( !empty($image) ): ?>
              <img class="press-release-image"
                   src="<?php echo $image['url']; ?>"
                   alt="<?php echo $image['alt']; ?>">
          <?php endif; ?>
          <span class="BlogPost-meta-date">
            <?php the_date("F j, Y"); ?>
          </span>
          <a href="<?php the_field( 'pr_outgoing_link' ); ?>">
            <h2 class="BlogPost-title">
              <?php the_title(); ?>
            </h2>
          </a>
        </div><!-- .BlogPost -->

      <?php endwhile; ?>