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Catherine Millington
3,754 PointsHow do I create a new portfolio on the Twenty Fourteen Theme?
I have a child theme and have tried creating a new page, created a new template to use which has an effect and using the index file code (the blog page for the site) as the template but it just doesn't show any posts. I want to create a portfolio page showing only a certain category. Been on this all day and can't work it out :o/ Please help me!
1 Answer

connorriley
23,101 PointsThe simplest way would be to create a new page template. And use a loop filtered by category.
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'category_name' => 'CATEGORY_NAME' ) );

Catherine Millington
3,754 PointsHI i want to keep my index page as a static page and then have one of the other pages set to open up all posts with one category. I have used the code from the index template to see if it would bounce back any posts but it doesn't i guess because it has the coding to turn posts on or off through the dashboard (which i don't really understand so can't find to delete). I'll try and write a loop and put the code above in it and see how i get on. Thanks for your time.
Ok, i have done this but it still doesn't show anything'
'''php
get_header(); ?>
<div id="main-content" class="main-content">
<?php if ( is_front_page() && twentyfourteen_has_featured_posts() ) { // Include the featured content template. get_template_part( 'featured-content' ); } ?>
<div id="primary" class="content-area">
<div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">
<?php
if ( have_posts() ) :
// Start the Loop.
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'category_name' => 'whats-on' ) ); get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );
endwhile;
// Previous/next post navigation.
twentyfourteen_paging_nav();
else :
// If no content, include the "No posts found" template.
get_template_part( 'content', 'none' );
endif;
?>
</div><!-- #content -->
</div><!-- #primary -->
<?php get_sidebar( 'content' ); ?>
</div><!-- #main-content -->
<?php get_sidebar(); get_footer();
'''

Catherine Millington
3,754 PointsI was over complicating things.....category searches are already set up with this theme so i just made a custom link on the menu for .............../category/whats-on/ and it now works. Sorry to be a pain!!!!
Jesus Mendoza
23,274 PointsJesus Mendoza
23,274 PointsDo you want to create a portfolio as your first index page or insert portfolio post in your index page?