Custom Loops

[joel 0]

I would like to learn more about how to customize loops for certain categories on my webpage. I have website that sells products but also has articles that can be associated with those products. I would like to develop a number of custom loops for those pages. The custom Loop would look something like this.

Name of Category

static content

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Put in a line here

Products Put in a line here each product would have a link to it's own page Put in a line here

Articles

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Put in a line here each article would have a link to it's own page The layout would look like this http://web.prioritiesbydesign.com/admin-assist/2_church_by_laws/ but this is a static page. I would like the page to be static but have the content dynamically generated. The above is an immediate need I have but I have other places that I can use such coding. Is there a place that anyone knows of that is a good tutorial on building custom loops? Thanks!!

[cmunns 16]

Basically you will need to modify the template.postloop.php file in PlatformPro. Copy it to the child theme and edit it there and get familiar with conditional tags. http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags If the page is static then you will want to learn how to add a custom loop to a page that doesn't effect the pre-existing loop `if (is_page()).....` http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

[joel 0]

Adam, In a previous Thread that was lost (I believe) I wanted to get some post to show up on a static page. You gave me this code: add_action('pagelines_inside_top_theloop','custom_loop'); function custom_loop(){ if(is_front_page()): $myquery = new WP_Query('showposts=5'); while ($myquery->have_posts()) : $myquery->the_post(); the_title(); the_excerpt(); endwhile; endif; } This all works great but I needed to modify as below.

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I wanted the article titles to be links to their specific post page and you gave me this code: rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> However, I put it in and it crashes the site. What am I doing wrong and where does it go in the above code?

[joel 0]

This ended up being the correct code: add_action('pagelines_inside_top_theloop','custom_loop'); function custom_loop(){ if(is_front_page()): $myquery = new WP_Query('showposts=5'); while ($myquery->have_posts()) : $myquery->the_post(); echo '

'; the_title(); echo '

'; the_excerpt(); endwhile; endif; }