Title: Posts: 2 Ways
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Posts: 2 Ways

 *  [jridoutportraits](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jridoutportraits/)
 * (@jridoutportraits)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-2-ways/)
 * I’ve searched for quite some time and have found pseudo solutions, but none seem
   to be what I’m looking for:
 * 1) I want to write a blog post and have it show up in my blog, just like WordPress
   was designed to do. This blog is accessed by mysite/blog/ and shows all the posts
   that I’ve made, as I’ve configured it, using WordPress tools. —THIS PART I CAN
   DO
 * 2) I want that same blog post to show up in a separate “page view” with every
   other blog post of the same Category. Not as a “bulleted” list of Recents on 
   a Sidebar, but in the Main Content Area, with full features such as excerpts,
   the option to display full posts or not and customizable number of posts, previous
   and next buttons, etc.
 * This “page view” would look and feel JUST LIKE a blog page. It would only contain
   posts of a certain category.
 * In other words, I want to write a post one time, have it show up in a long list
   of blog items, but I also want it to show up in a “page” that shows other blog
   posts of the same category. Not a list of posts, but perhaps even full articles,
   one after another, after another, 5 times and then a Previous.
 * Maybe said another way, using a URL, how can I make a content area show my blog,
   but only show certain posts by a category??
 * It sounds complicated and most responses to similar questions come back with 
   code and long comments about workarounds. Really, it seems like it should be 
   quite simple.
 * Thanks

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 *  [blackpenpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blackpenpress/)
 * (@blackpenpress)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-2-ways/#post-5113668)
 * Use a custom page template [http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates)
   then add a custom query [http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query](http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query)

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