List WordPress Posts by Category
I saw on twitter that John Gardner was looking for a way to loop through his WordPress categories and then display all posts that belonged to that category below it. I thought it was a great question / problem to solve so I did a quick tutorial on how to do so.
https://youtu.be/tiLKGPhUEpM
Make sure to view video in HD :)
First thing you need to do is setup a new page with a custom page template. It can be as simple as below but may vary depending on your theme structure. I'm using the default Wordpress 2010 theme.
<?php
/* template name: Posts by Category! */
get_header(); ?>
<div id="container">
<div id="content" role="main">
</div><!-- #content -->
</div><!-- #container -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>Then We need to get all of our categories into a variable called $cats. Once they are setup, we'll just loop through the categories, setup a new WordPress loop for each of them, and echo out the information needed.
Here is the final code, I've commended each line as needed.
<?php
/* template name: Posts by Category! */
get_header(); ?>
<div id="container">
<div id="content" role="main">
<?php
// get all the categories from the database
$cats = get_categories();
// loop through the categries
foreach ($cats as $cat) {
// setup the cateogory ID
$cat_id= $cat->term_id;
// Make a header for the cateogry
echo "<h2>".$cat->name."</h2>";
// create a custom wordpress query
query_posts("cat=$cat_id&posts_per_page=100");
// start the wordpress loop!
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php // create our link now that the post is setup ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php echo '<hr/>'; ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; // done our wordpress loop. Will start again for each category ?>
<?php } // done the foreach statement ?>
</div><!-- #content -->
</div><!-- #container -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>Thats it! You can obviously customize this to your own likings. I suggest you check out and read The Loop and query_posts().
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