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Page Template for Categories (WordPress)

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By default, this template will use the page title as the category to pull from – but you can also create a custom field with ‘category’ as the name and the preferred category name as the value.

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  1. <?php
  2. //Template Name: Category Listing
  3.  
  4. /*
  5. This page will grab posts from a category that matches the page title
  6. OR
  7. This page will grab posts from a category that matches the value for the 'category' custom field
  8. */
  9.  
  10. $pageID = $post->ID;
  11. $cat = get_post_meta($pageID, 'category',true);
  12. if (empty($cat)) $cat = strtolower($post->post_title);
  13.  
  14. get_header(); ?>
  15.  
  16.         <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
  17.  
  18.                 <?php /* below, get the title and any content for the actual page - before we go and get the other posts */ ?>
  19.                 <?php if (have_posts()) : ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  20.                         <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
  21.                                 <h2 class="clear"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
  22.                                 <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page »</p>'); ?>
  23.                         </div>
  24.                         <?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p class="clear editLink">', '</p>'); ?>
  25.                 <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
  26.  
  27.                 <?php /* below, change the query to find posts of the specified category */ ?>
  28.                 <?php $the_query = new WP_Query('category_name='.$cat); ?>
  29.                 <?php if ($the_query->have_posts()) : while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
  30.  
  31.                         <div  <?php post_class() ?>  id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
  32.                                 <!--<h3 class="clear"><a href="<?php the_permalink($post->ID); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>-->
  33.                                 <h3 class="clear"><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
  34.                                 <div class="entry">
  35.                                         <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page »</p>'); ?>
  36.                                 </div>
  37.                                 <?php edit_post_link('edit this page', '<p class="clear">', '</p>'); ?>
  38.                         </div>
  39.                 <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
  40.                 <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
  41.  
  42.         </div>
  43.  
  44. <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
  45. <?php get_footer(); ?>

URL: http://trepmal.com/themes/page-template-for-categories/

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