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Amber Hoddinott
Amber Hoddinott
6,494 Points
Posted by Amber Hoddinott
Amber Hoddinott
6,494 Points

Can someone please explain to me where i am going wrong with my code. Would be so grateful!!!

//i am trying to get my posts to post to my template page 

        <?php if (have_posts()) :
            while (have_posts()) : the_post();

            the_content();

            endwhile;

            else :
                echo '<p>No content found</p>';

            endif; ?>

    <?php 

    wp_reset_postdata();

    $args = array (
        'category_name'=>'red'
        ) 

    $catPosts = new WP_Query($args);
    ?>


        <?php if ($catPosts->have_posts()) :
            while ($catPosts->have_posts()) : 
                 $catPosts->the_post(); 
        ?>

        <h3> <?php the_title();?> </h3>

        <?php   endwhile;

            else :
                echo '<p>No content found</p>';

            endif; ?>

3 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

Is the code you have here your template page? if so did you create a comment at the top to state that this is your template?

Amber Hoddinott
Amber Hoddinott
6,494 Points
Amber Hoddinott
Amber Hoddinott
6,494 Points

Yes it is, and i had commented it at the beginning of the file to unsure this and i have a pages on my wordpress that was displaying the page. I've actually solved the problem now, thank you for your reply. My work mate and i work out that is was actually looping through my posts fine and was displaying them, however i had to add an extra wp_query parameter as we believe a filter somewhere in wordpress was affecting the number of posts being able to be displayed on the page.

is used... 'posts_per_page' => -1

...and the posts are displaying fine now :D

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

yup that will do it. Remember -1 shows all your posts, and if you increase the number it will show that number of posts.