The Loop doesn’t work on page templates

  • flow01

    (@flow01)


    16 years ago

    I’ve got two following problems with WordPress:

    • I create template-test.php file. I put there The Loop (it should show 10 posts – it’s exactly the same The Loop like in index.php). Then I create a Page that is using this template and I don’t see 10 posts but one post and it’s not actually a post but a page linking to itself (I see page title + excerpt below it with post’s style). I don’t know why it happens but if I put EXACTLY the same code in index.php and template-test.php why do I get different output?
    • The file above only works if I set permalinks to %category%/%postname%/ (or something like this). If I use standard links index.php works fine and shows 10 posts but custom page template show 404 Error.

    Any help would be great!

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years ago

    Try using a new query:

    <?php
$args=array(
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => 10,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  echo 'List of Posts';
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
    the_content();
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

    Thread Starter flow01

    (@flow01)

    16 years ago

    Your new query works great!

    Could you tell me please why old query returns only one link that’s pointing to the page that is currently displayed?

    I guess that your new query will work with all types of links so that would solve my second problem too. Why the old one returns 404 page?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years ago

    The other query is ‘automatically’ populated by WordPress and normally you should use a new query if you are imposing new query requirements.

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