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brent

So, Chris has the new code snippets section, which is really cool. I have a question about this code though:

<?php $recent = new WP_Query(\"page_id=**ID**\"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
       <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
       <?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Is it possible to do the same thing based on the template used by the page you are trying to embed, rather than by its ID?

ikthius

template???

you do know that the loop is just trying to get the raw data from the database?!?!?!?!?!

your template is mainly how you are styling the page, not just on CSS but how you set out your page.

TheDoc

Hey Brent,

When you say "page", do you actually mean "post"? That can make a huge difference.

If you actually mean "post", it's very simple, you just assign each post to a category and loop through that category.

But, since you specifically mentioned "pages", let's see what we can do with that... Off the top of my head, there's no way to list pages by the template that they are using.

Another question, what are you actually trying to accomplish here? Are you simply listing the pages, like this:

Page One
Page Two
Page Three

Or are you trying to display their content as well?

Page One Title

Page One content.............

Page Two Title

Page Two Content.............

brent

Definitely 'pages' not 'posts'.
I need to display the content, not just their title.

The thought process behind displaying them based on their templates was that I only need the content from pages that use a certain template. However, I sat and looked at it and I think that, with a bit of reorganizing, I would only need pages with a certain parent. So, that would be two different ways of filtering the pages that I need...If that makes sense.

TheDoc

If you're only needing to loop through child pages of a specific parent, things will be much easier for you.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

brent

My thanks, but I need a bit more...How about getting all the children?
This seems, to me, to require that you specify each child page and I'd like to have it get all of them.

This code

<?php
query_posts(
		'post_parent' => 130
); // retrieve the child page of a parent
?>

Is not showing anything on my page.

brent

<?php query_posts(array('showposts' => 2, 'post_parent' => 130, 'post_type' => 'page')); ?>

This seems to be working...Does that seem right?

TheDoc

Makes sense to me, just remember that the "2" there will make sure that only a maximum of two pages show.

brent

Yeah, I'm still testing and configuring.

Thanks for all your help.

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