Wordpress multiple / exclusive posting pages

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 p开发者_开发技巧ages. 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

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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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