lokjah

thanks for all the help alphaoide ??

sweet, last thing is there anyway that I can add multiple categories? I have a news link that i want to show posts from a few categories…

<?php query_posts('cat=1,4,5&showposts=3'); ?>

is that written right?

ok that one works!

now where its showposts=10

is there a way to substitute the # (10 in this case) with something like “all” or will I need to use some exorbidant # like 999 ?

no that throws the same error as using “cat”

the one that works sort of is the one i posted above:

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_id=1&showposts=10'); ?>

<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
<?php endwhile; ?>

that works but doesnt show just category 1 posts, it shows 1, 5 and 6 like the error message states above.. so that is coming somewhere from the original example you pointed me to

also interesting is that bit:

AND (category_id = 1 OR category_id = 5 OR category_id = 6)

those are the very categories that were showing up in addition to category 1

cat=1
returns an error:

WordPress database error: [Not unique table/alias: ‘mainwp_post2cat’]
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM mainwp_posts LEFT JOIN mainwp_post2cat ON (mainwp_posts.ID = mainwp_post2cat.post_id) LEFT JOIN mainwp_post2cat ON (mainwp_posts.ID = mainwp_post2cat.post_id) WHERE 1=1 AND (category_id = 1) AND post_date_gmt <= ‘2005-05-05 02:02:59’ AND (post_status = “publish”) AND (category_id = 1 OR category_id = 5 OR category_id = 6) GROUP BY mainwp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 999

this seems to be working, although it doesnt just list category_id=1 posts, it lists others as well…..

ok ive got something like this so far, am I doing it right?

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_id=1&showposts=10'); ?>

<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=special_cat&showposts=10'); ?>

<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
// Do stuff.
<?php endwhile; ?>

this one? if so, im not quite sure how to use it. do I just need this loop by itself?

and “category_name” how would I use the category ID?

thanks alphaiode

thanks kafka, i’m still a noob at php so it takes me a bit to get a hold of what to do,

i know about the tag only the first time its called, thats what i was expecting my script above to do, but it wasnt doing that.

this you posted works, it actually puts a date on every entry which is fine, I just wondered why the original the_date in my script wasnt working….

still havent been able to figure this one out, help much appreciated ??

rats… thought it was sussed…

for some reason my script above doesnt work like the_date
as it should- (only showing the date on the first post when there are multiple posts on one day)…

on days with more than one entry my script writes an empty
<ul class="datelist">
</ul>

which throws off the validation of my site…..

is there something that needs to be added in my script so that it behaves as the_date by default on multiple posts?

excellent kafkaesqui

I was reading that page actually all nite and forgot to put that piece into the script…

thanks a ton!

heh nothing like a convo with yourself….

I really think this may do what I need?

for individual posts, ryans plugin:

custom post templates

and Kafkaesquis for categories:

custom posts categories templates

given my situation am I looking in the right direction? will both of these work with rss and function like any other post?

could conditional tags be my help ???

hope hope