WordPress PHP theming issues

[ryanhellyer]

I've been having trouble with a particular problem with a site I'm creating with WordPress for a while now. My programming skills are negligible so I'm hoping someone will be able to help me out with this.

What I'm trying to do, is to pull posts from a WordPress category on my site via query_posts to a particular page via an IF is_page statement. This works fine, but when I use an IF statement to display a particular piece of code, the IF statement is not obeyed. It works when query_posts is not used, but not when query posts is used

The code is in my page.php file. Here's a chopped down version of it:

<?php
	if (is_page('dihl')) {
	query_posts('category_name=Dunedin Ice Hockey League&showposts=10');
	while (have_posts()) : the_post();
		the_excerpt('');
	endwhile;}
?>

<?php
	if (is_page('practices')) {echo 'Practice';}
	elseif (is_page('dihl')) {echo 'DIHL';}
	else {echo 'Not practices or DIHL';}
?>

I'm certain whatever it is that I'm doing wrong is stupidly obvious, but I can't figure out what it is.

The test page I'm trying to get this to work on is here ... http://getasportsite.com/dunedinicehockeynew/dihl/. The forum section below the news on the right is NOT meant to be on the page.

[BigAlReturns]

Are you still looking for a solution here Ryan? The page is removed now but what output did it show? i.e. which of the statements from the above 2 blocks was being executed? I take it the is_page('dihl') was expected to return true. going by the link you gave?