[SOLVED] How to create category pages

glb9235 · #1 Jun 16, 2010, 09:43 AM

Thought I would post this, since I spent hours looking for a solution before I solved it. I was looking for any way to create a page where certain content was on the top (sticky or otherwise), and allow posts to populate it from a specific category. I didn't want just a list of post titles, I wanted the full posts. Here's my fix. I edited the page2cat.php from this plugin:

http://pixline.net/wordpress-plugins/category-page-wordpress-plugin/en/

Here was the original function:

Code:

function page2cat_content_catlist($content){
global $post;
	if ( stristr( $content, '[catlist' )) {
		$search = "@(?:<p>)*\s*\[catlist\s*=\s*(\w+|^\+)\]\s*(?:</p>)*@i";
		if	(preg_match_all($search, $content, $matches)) {
			if (is_array($matches)) {
				$title = get_option('p2c_catlist_title');
				if($title != "") $output = "<h4>".$title."</h4>"; else $output = "";
				$output .= "<ul class='p2c_catlist'>";
				$limit = get_option('p2c_catlist_limit');
				foreach ($matches[1] as $key =>$v0) {
					$catposts = get_posts('category='.$v0."&numberposts=".$limit);
						foreach($catposts as $single):
						$output .= "<li><a href='".get_permalink($single->ID)."'>".$single->post_title."</a></li>";
						endforeach;
					$search = $matches[0][$key];
					$replace= $output;
					$content= str_replace ($search, $replace, $content);					
				}
			$output .= "</ul>";
			}
		}
	}
return $content;
}

Change this:

Code:

					foreach($catposts as $single):
						$output .= "<li><a href='".get_permalink($single->ID)."'>".$single->post_title."</a></li>";
						endforeach;

To this:

Code:

						foreach($catposts as $single):
						$excerpt = $single->post_content;
						$output .= "<li><a href='".get_permalink($single->ID)."'>".$single->post_title."</a></li><p>".$excerpt."</p>";
						endforeach;

Thats it! I fiddled around a lot so if there was something else I changed and yours doesn't work, let me know.