Wordpress multiple / exclusive posting pages

Question

I want a site with a separate News and Blog page, ie only news posts are dispayed on news pages and non news posts on blog pages. Also archive lists, category lists, etc for each page must only display relevant posts. Seems like a common requirement, but using the WP documentation, I keep going around in circles!!! Is there a simple way to do this, without getting into multiple blogs, eg using categories.

Thanks

Answer 1

That's easy.

First, you will need to create custom page template. Refer to this page to see how to create it.

Second, on that page (you can copy from your page.php/index.php, the important part is:

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();

Find that piece and add this code just right above that code:

query_posts('cat=3&paged='.get_query_var( 'paged' ));

Things to note from above query_posts snippet is:

• cat: this is the category ID you want to query. To easily see what ID is on a particular category, you can use ShowID for Post/Page/Category/Tag/Comment plugin.
• paged: Paged will allow your custom page to handle next & prev navigations, which is handled by next_post_link() and prev_post_link(). As for get_query_var( 'paged' ) is function to get what page's page you currently see.

Hope that helped.

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