Question

I have some custom post types, such as ‘review’. I can’t seem to find out how to make a section (e.g., http://www.mysite.com/reviews/) which works like the blog home page, but lists reviews instead of posts (with pagination and everything). I’d like to use a separate template for it too.

Answer 1

Create a page called reviews and then create a new template in your theme folder called page-reviews.php. Add all the necessary elements to the template and include a query_posts in front of your post loop. It should look like this:

<?php query_posts("post_type=reviews"); ?>
    <?php if (have_posts()) :?>
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>        
        <div class="post" >
            <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" ><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>                     
            <?php the_content(); ?>     
        </div><!-- Post ends -->
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php else: ?>
    <p>Sorry, we could not find what you were looking for</p>
    <?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>