adamgay on "Problems displaying specific categories"

February 8, 2010 by David Olsen

This is probably just some little mistake, or something I’m missing, but the docs don’t seem to have any reference for what I’m trying to do.

I’ve got a site for a client, and he needs to use wordpress for updating posts on cars he’s sold, and cars he has for sale. So what I wanted to do was make a page that’s “For Sale” and a page that’s “Sold”. Then, each page would display only posts from a specific category (like ‘sold’ and ‘forsale’). Not sure why I can’t get it to show. Here’s the code within the “Sold” page.

Call at beginning:
<?php define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); get_header('/var/www/jettvettes.com/public/blog/wp-blog-header.php') query_posts('category_name=vettessold'); ?>

Code for the posts (including The Loop):

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
	<div id="welcome" class="post">
		<h2 class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
		<h3 class="date"><?php the_date(); ?> Posted by <?php the_author(); ?></h3>
		<div class="story">
			<?php the_content(); ?>
		</div>
	</div>
<?php endforeach; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, nothing to show you for now, Check back later!'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

any ideas? Like I said, I’m probably just missing something, or have something entered wrong. I’m not too familiar with WordPress.

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