Comments on: WordPress Theme Tutorial: MSNBC-like Home Page Category Listing

By: Chris Lati

Chris Lati — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:38:03 +0000

Works great, but how can I get this to work for only one specific category instead of for all the categories on my site?

By: Vitty Library

Vitty Library — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:05:20 +0000

Thanks For the Great Tutorial

By: LEVI

LEVI — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:11:42 +0000

Oops!
I actually placed your code in my index.php file between the loop which looks like this…
[?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?]
——
Your Code
——
[?php endwhile; ?]

Don’t see a thing….

By: LEVI

LEVI — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:07:38 +0000

This is exactly what I need for my project, and it is so straight forward. However I am doing something absolutely wrong. I can’t get anything to show up. Can you point me in the right direction?

name; ?>
cat_ID;
query_posts(”showposts=8&cat=$catID”);
$first=1;
$ul=0;
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
// Latest post with excerpt
if($first) {
?>

$first=0;
} // end if
else {
if ($ul==0) {
echo ”;
$ul=1;
}
?>

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By: Jan Alvin

Jan Alvin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:05:25 +0000

Do you have a sample work for this one??

By: srhnbr

srhnbr — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:13:25 +0000

This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks
I do get an error though:

Fatal error: Cannot access empty property
on $cat_ID; query_posts(”showposts=1&cat=$catID”); ?>
what I’m I doing wrong?

By: ThinkSoJoE

ThinkSoJoE — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:47:38 +0000

When I first tried this, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to get it to work right, as I was having some crazy problem with the second category excerpt showing up right under the first category links. After playing around for several hours, I figured out the fix: clear the float before the end of the foreach! Works great now, thanks for the great idea!

By: Tammy S. Hart

Tammy S. Hart — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:16:02 +0000

this will help you get only parent categories listed: http://webmasterweblog.com/wordpress-exclude-subcategories/

By: Tammy S. Hart

Tammy S. Hart — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:58:21 +0000

Awesome, just what I was looking for!!!