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vermifuge · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 12

Is it possible to have the front page display the entries by a catigoty rather then by date or etc?

Actualy, i think this would make a great feature request too.

any how is there any way to change this via the code?

Cyberian75 · Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 1019 Location: Oregon

That's rather easy to accomplish. In blog.header.php, locate:

vermifuge · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 12

Wow, that was way to easy! thanks. i had been looking at that code for 10 hours yesterday i just could not figure it out =P.

Is it possible to display only one catagory? say i want the index only to display CAT ID 1

Cyberian75 · Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 1019 Location: Oregon

On top of your template, whether it be b2.php or index.php, put "$cat=#" at the beginning right after inclusion of blog.header.php file. You have to replace "#" to the number of the category you want to display, of course.
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vermifuge · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 12

hmm i put this in my index and b2 files with no luck. it looked like this.

<?php /* Don't remove this line, it calls the b2 function files ! */ $blog=2; include ("blog.header.php"); $cat=1; ?>

i did it like this too

<?php /* Don't remove this line, it calls the b2 function files ! */ $blog=2; include ("blog.header.php"); $cat=1 ?>

I did get it to wok by puting it here in place of the blog

<?php /* Don't remove this line, it calls the b2 function files ! */ $cat=1; include ("blog.header.php"); ?>

but if i did it like that, all the category pages would display the one catigory specified in the above line.

any ideas?

dtdgoomba · Joined: 05 Aug 2002 Posts: 179 Location: Cambridge, MA

try putting all your variables before the include blog header. i think you need to first set those so that when blog.header is called, it uses them. If you put it after, it probably ignores it

$blog=2; include ("blog.header.php"); $cat=1;

so $blog=2; $cat=1; include etc

vermifuge · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 12

macshack · Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 1204 Location: Phoenix, Az

Hi,

Ok, if you put this code before the call to blog.header.php, then $cat will be either what you preset or what was in the url.

vermifuge · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 12

macshack · Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 1204 Location: Phoenix, Az

Your welcome. Very Happy

timtucker · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 4

This is the most useful bit of code I have found so far.

tariq · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 1

I used the code and it works great. but now there's a new problem: I can't set any limits for the number of articles shown. Is this doable?

Cyberian75 · Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 1019 Location: Oregon

If you set your "Show" option to "posts paged," you won't have that problem.

By the way, thanks for the code, marshack. Smile

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redg8r · Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 7

Nice work

Can we take it up a notch & show lates post in every category, nested in a table?

I can do the template, just fuzzy on the DB query

I'm wanting to use the blog as a newsletter & being able to show the latest post in each category, from one central page would rock.

any ideas?

Thanks

celia · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 2

This post seems dead but anyway...
There is a problem with this hack, see this
http://tidakada.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=13038
If you have any idea of how to fix it, then I'll be glad if you help me Very Happy

Thanks!