Comments on: Multiple loops on the same page in WordPress 1.5

By: flys

flys — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:13:52 +0000

hi, i’m not able to use this code, can someone help me ?….

I should replace just this:

if (have_posts()) :

with this?:

query_posts(‘category_name=CatName&showposts=1′);

because the rest of the code seem to be the same …
thanks in advance

By: flys

flys — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:13:21 +0000

hi, i’m not able to use this code, can someone help me ?….

I should replace just this:

with this?:

because the rest of the code seem to be the same …
thanks in advance

By: flys

flys — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:09:39 +0000

hi, i’m not able to use this code, can someone help me ?….

I should replace just this:

with this?:

because the rest of the code seem to be the same …
thanks in advance

By: Griff

Griff — Thu, 11 May 2006 23:19:11 +0000

Thank you very much for your article on multiple loops. I’ve had much more success with yours then any other (including wordpress codex/forums).

You should consider a Pay Pal donate button. ;)

By: Clint M Chilcott

Clint M Chilcott — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:24:31 +0000

“Itâ€™s very easy to display posts from a single category with an if statement.”

Could you help me figure out how to do this? I hate to be a bother but I have been up all night wrestling with PHP and searching for a simple solution.

On my wordpress blog I have a category dedicated to my podcast. I want to make a page that displays some info on the podcast and how to subscribe. Then below that it displays every post in the “Podcast” category.

I thought it should be simple but I am in a world of hurt. Can you help? Thanks!!

-Clint M Chilcott

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:17:17 +0000

Sure, I can explain the “display code goes here” – all that is is the code to render the post (eg the_content(), the_title(). The usual stuff you’d write to display a post, only this time it’s displaying a limited number of posts, from a single category, or whatever.

You are correct in noting that people asked for further help a long time ago. I would also point out that I’m in no obligation to provide it.

I might possibly have a quick run through this list tonight and try and answer some questions – or at least email the people directly. I can’t email you, Non Flame, because you didn’t give me a valid email address – but never mind, I’m responding here. Some of the queries probably do deserve a response as they’re directly related to my post and fairly technical. “Listing comments in the sidebar” is pretty much entirely unrelated to this post.

Finally, I think the tips I’ve provided here – which I worked out myself, remember – are enough to let other people explore further for themselves.

If you’ve got more direct, on-topic questions, I’d be happy to try to help, Non Flame, but I’m ludicrously busy at work right now. Still, it’ll go in my inbox, and I’ll get back to you when I can.

By: Non Flame

Non Flame — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:52:41 +0000

This is great code (if you explained the ‘display code code here’ bit)

But the support you’re providing seems lacking, not an attack or anything it’s just that people asked for help a long time ago. I need help with this, but know I won’t receive it. That being said, you’ve brought me closer to understanding how to do this more then any other site (and I’ve been looking for weeks).

So thanks :)

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:55:43 +0000

I am looking to list my comments in the sidebar with the post in the main part of the page. Can this be done?

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:03:15 +0000

Ahhh… thank you so much.

By: pamG

pamG — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:12:58 +0000

Thank you so much for this clarification. I have one lingering question, as the Codex offers zip on the issue: is there a point where the number of loops, combined with the number of posts, would sort of max out, and start causing MySQL “out of memory” error messages? By way of example, I came to WP from b2evolution. I converted those blogs to parent cats. I’ve already done the multiple loop deal on some parent-cat pages, which have only a few child-cats and relatively small # of posts. But I’m too paranoid to even attempt the same with a larger parent-cat. It has about 15 child-cats, and that combo page would have 400-500 posts (titles, dates only — like an index). I backed up the DB, but as a newbie, frankly, I’m too fearful to try it — without at least some confirmation that I’m not begging for trouble.

Again, many thanks.