Contents
- 1 Where do I Find my categories in WordPress?
- 2 How can I show all my posts in one category?
- 3 How to setup a product post as your homepage?
- 4 How to fetch posts from specific category in WordPress?
- 5 How to get a list of WordPress posts?
- 6 How to make pages show posts from certain categories and?
- 7 How to sort posts by categories in WordPress?
- 8 Where do I find the category ID in WP _ query?
- 9 What do you need to know about WP query?
- 10 How can I check if a post is within a given category?
- 11 How to create custom templates for WordPress categories?
Where do I Find my categories in WordPress?
To find the category page, you simply need to go to Posts » Categories » View page and click on the ‘View’ link below a category. That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily display recent posts by category in different areas of your website.
How can I show all my posts in one category?
From here, you can select the categories you want to show posts from. You can also select multiple categories by pressing the CTRL key (Command key on Mac) on your keyboard and clicking on categories that you want to select. After that, don’t forget to click on the ‘Save’ button to store your widget settings.
How to show one category only on your homepage?
I recommend installing the Front Page Category plugin to choose one category for your front page. This plugin is really lightweight and easy to use. The one problem with it, and the reason it has 1-star reviews, is that the settings are hard to find!
How to setup a product post as your homepage?
Go to Pages → Add New . Enter a page title, then place your cursor in the post editor. Place your cursor between the quotes and enter the ID number from your product . See below for an example. Select the Full Width page template from the drop-down at the right. You may leave the Posts page menu default/blank.
How to fetch posts from specific category in WordPress?
Let’s say slug of your page is category-list then your file name would be page-category-list.php. After this, the code from this file is being used for your page. You have created and assigned your template to the WordPress page. Now, let’s write a code that fetches posts attached to a category. I will use WP_Query class to fetch the posts.
How do I categorize my blog posts in WordPress?
By default in WordPress, you can categorize your post. This feature is useful to find out in which category your posts belongs to. In WordPress, when a user clicks on one of the categories they will redirect to post listing page for that specific category.
How to get a list of WordPress posts?
Write the code below to get a list of posts under the ‘WordPress’ category. In the above code, I used the ‘category_name’ => ‘wordpress’. Here ‘wordpress’ is the slug of a category. The user can also pass the category id instead of category_name.
How to make pages show posts from certain categories and?
In order to add a new menu item displaying specific post category, you should do the following: Assign posts to the Category under Posts -> All Posts: Create a page under Pages -> Add New. Insert a shortcode on the page using the category slug:
How to add a menu item to a post?
In order to add a new menu item displaying specific post category, you should do the following: Assign posts to the Category under Posts -> All Posts: Create a page under Pages -> Add New. Insert a shortcode on the page using the category slug: Add a menu item displaying the category: Add created page as menu item:
How to sort posts by categories in WordPress?
In WordPress you can sort posts using post categories. In order to add a new menu item displaying specific post category, you should do the following: Assign posts to the Category under Posts -> All Posts: Create a page under Pages -> Add New.
Where do I find the category ID in WP _ query?
There are 2 numbers in the line of code highlighted below which are the arguments we pass to WP_Query. The first is the category ID and the second is the number of posts to show. Change them to the values you want. You can find the ID for your category by opening it for editing in the WordPress backend and looking in the uRL bar in your browser.
How to display recent posts from a specific category?
Simply, edit the post or page where you want to display the recent posts by category. On the post edit screen, click on the add new block (+) button and then add Shortcode block to your content area. Next, you need to add your shortcode
What do you need to know about WP query?
You need to use WP_Query There are 2 numbers in the line of code highlighted below which are the arguments we pass to WP_Query. The first is the category ID and the second is the number of posts to show. Change them to the values you want.
In your WordPress dashboard under Posts => Categories you can find an overview of your available categories. If there are no categories available yet, you have to create categories first.
How can I check if a post is within a given category?
Checks if the current post is within any of the given categories. The given categories are checked against the post’s categories’ term_ids, names and slugs. Categories given as integers will only be checked against the post’s categories’ term_ids.
How does the is category function work in WordPress?
Determines whether the query is for an existing category archive page. If the $category parameter is specified, this function will additionally check if the query is for one of the categories specified. For more information on this and similar theme functions, check out the Conditional Tags article in the Theme Developer Handbook.
How to create custom templates for WordPress categories?
(The Custom Post Templates Plugin allows for creation of templates for single posts. It also shows an example of how to add a template which is used for all posts in a given category, not just a single post. That example is commented out in the plugin by default but can be easily implemented by uncommenting the appropriate lines.)