Conditional tag Wordpress?

HTML & CSS
1

So what I need is for 5 posts to show up in the sidebar of my site, problem is that when I add,

<?php query_posts('cat=1');?>
<ul>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<img src="<?php get_custom_field('image', TRUE); ?>" />
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>

My main column will also have that “cat=1” property, and if I wanted to display a different category then instead of showing the recent posts it will show the category that I set in the sidebar.

I’m trying to make a conditional statement so that the code shown above ONLY shows on the home page, and if it does it shouldn’t intervene with the content of the index.php page with the recent posts.

Here is the whole page,

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

<?php /* if index.php or another page template (copied from index.php) was not used

(i.e. by a plugin such as WPG2), the global $bfa_ata would be empty */

global $bfa_ata; if ($bfa_ata == "") include_once (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions/bfa_get_options.php'); ?>

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['css_external'] == "External" ) { ?>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $bfa_ata['get_option_home']; ?>/?bfa_ata_file=css" type="text/css" media="all" />

<?php } ?>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions/bfa_meta_tags.php'); ?>

<?php if ($bfa_ata['favicon_file'] != "") { ?><link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo $bfa_ata['template_directory']; ?>/images/favicon/<?php echo $bfa_ata['favicon_file']; ?>" /><?php } ?>

<?php if ( is_single() OR is_page() ) { ?><link rel="canonical" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" /><?php } ?>

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> Atom Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />

<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />

<?php 	wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' ); ?>

<?php if ( function_exists('wp_list_comments') AND is_singular() ) { 	wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); } ?>

<?php wp_head(); ?>

<?php echo ($bfa_ata['html_inserts_header'] != "" ? apply_filters(widget_text, $bfa_ata['html_inserts_header']) : ''); ?>

<?php if ($bfa_ata['pngfix_selectors'] != "") { ?>

<!--[if IE 6]>

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $bfa_ata['template_directory']; ?>/js/DD_roundies.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">DD_roundies.addRule('<?php echo $bfa_ata['pngfix_selectors']; ?>');</script>

<![endif]-->

<?php } ?>

</head>

<body <?php body_class(); ?><?php echo ($bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_tag'] != "" ? ' ' . apply_filters(widget_text, $bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_tag']) : ''); ?>>

<?php echo ($bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_top'] != "" ? apply_filters(widget_text, $bfa_ata['html_inserts_body_top']) : ''); ?>

<div id="wrapper">

<div id="container">

<table id="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<colgroup>

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colone" /><?php } ?>

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col2'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colone-inner" /><?php } ?>

<col class="coltwo" />

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['right_col2'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colthree-inner" /><?php } ?>

<?php if ( $bfa_ata['right_col'] == "on" ) { ?><col class="colthree" /><?php } ?>

</colgroup> 

	<tr>



		<!-- Header -->

		<td id="header" colspan="<?php echo $bfa_ata['cols']; ?>">



		<?php bfa_header_config($bfa_ata['configure_header']); ?>



		</td>

		<!-- / Header -->



	</tr>



	<!-- Main Body -->	

	<tr id="bodyrow">



		<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col'] == "on" ) { ?>

		<!-- Left Sidebar -->

		<td id="left">



			<?php // Widgetize the Left Sidebar 

			if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Left Sidebar') ) : ?>

		

					<div class="widget widget_categories"><div class="widget-title">

					<h3><?php _e('Categories','atahualpa'); ?></h3>

					</div>

					<ul><?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li='); ?></ul>

					</div>

					

					<div class="widget widget_archive"><div class="widget-title">

					<h3><?php _e('Archives','atahualpa'); ?></h3>

					</div>

					<ul><?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?></ul>

					</div>
<?php query_posts('cat=1');?>
<ul>
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<img src="<?php get_custom_field('image', TRUE); ?>" />
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
        


<?php endif; ?>


		</td>

		<!-- / Left Sidebar -->

		<?php } ?>



		<?php if ( $bfa_ata['left_col2'] == "on" ) { ?>

		<!-- Left INNER Sidebar -->

		<td id="left-inner">



			<?php // Widgetize the Left Inner Sidebar 

			if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Left Inner Sidebar') ) : ?>

		

					<!-- no default content for the LEFT INNER sidebar -->

									

			<?php endif; ?>



		</td>

		<!-- / Left INNER Sidebar -->

		<?php } ?>

		



		<!-- Main Column -->

		<td id="middle">

EDIT: I fixed it!
wp_reset_query();

I love that tag!

2

Alternatively, you can use get_posts() instead of query_posts(). The conditional to make something only happen on the home page is is_home().

3

Thank you! I think I’m making a shirt of the reset query call. I literally spent 5 hours trying to fix it and all it needed was a query reset!

4

That’s a long time! Did you check out the manual?

The query_posts function is intended to be used to modify the main page Loop only. It is not intended as a means to create secondary Loops on the page.

It also uses wp_reset_query() in the first example, though using query_posts() at all for creating multiple loops isn’t really a good idea.