Wordpress - Custom Pages

Hey,

I'm trying to create a custom page that will display a single categories post alphabetically, not all categories.

I found this.. http://codex.wordpress.org/Alphabetizing_Posts

I created the custom file with the category id as the file name added the extra code before the loop. I then create a page from the admin panel and use the file as my page template, when I try to view it nothing shows. Not really sure how wordpress knows which category to select.

Any help would be great!

Thanks

 

was the file you created name category-123.php (123 being the category id? - http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates#What_Template_File_is_Used.3F) this will allow you to create the custom template for that category. note: just copy everything from archive.php into category-123.php.

then add the extra code, it should look like the following (based on default theme)

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<?php is_tag(); ?>
		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

 	  <?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?>
 	  <?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for the ‘<?php single_cat_title(); ?>’ Category</h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a tag archive */ } elseif( is_tag() ) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Posts Tagged ‘<?php single_tag_title(); ?>’</h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a daily archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?></h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('Y'); ?></h2>
	  <?php /* If this is an author archive */ } elseif (is_author()) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Author Archive</h2>
 	  <?php /* If this is a paged archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) { ?>
		<h2 class="pagetitle">Blog Archives</h2>
 	  <?php } ?>


		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

		<?php
// we add this, to show *all* posts sorted
// alphabetically by title
     $posts = query_posts($query_string . '&orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page=-1');
// here comes The Loop!
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="post">
				<h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
				<small><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></small>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content() ?>
				</div>

				<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>

			</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

	</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

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