How to display posts on a news page in Wordpress?

Question

I can easily do it if i make a custom post but doing so will make the original post type unused. I would like to use it than building a new custom post type. I have made page-news.php but it is not able to show up on this page. also Currently, post are showing up www.somedomain.com/posts_title format i would like it to be www.somedomain.com/news/posts_title

here is my page.news.php

<?php 
/*
  Template Name: News
*/
?>
<?php get_header();?>
<div class="mainwrapper">
<!-- slide -->
</div>

<div class="content content-topone">
    <div class="container-fluid">
        <div class="row portfolio">
            <?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => '', 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) ); ?>
            <?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
            <div class="col-lg-3 col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 portfoliobox">
                <div class="thumbnail">
                    <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
                    <?php 
                    if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it.
                        the_post_thumbnail();
                    } else {
                        $img = '/img/responsive-webness.png"';
                       $attrib = ' class="' . 'img-responsive' . '" alt="' . ' '. '"/>';
                       $begin = '<img src="';
                       $getpath = get_template_directory_uri();
                        echo $begin . $getpath. $img . $attrib;
                      }
                    ?>
                    </a>

                    <p><?php the_title(); ?></p>

                    <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
                </div><!-- .thumbnail -->
          </div>
          <?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>
          <div class="clear"></div>
       </div>
    </div>     
</div>
<?php get_footer();?>

Answer 1

Change this:

$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => '', 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) );

To this:

$loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) );

So you can display native posts in your news page. All you need to do just loop

if ( $loop->have_posts() ) {
    while ( $loop->have_posts() ) {
        $loop->the_post();
        ?><h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2><?php
    }
}

To display any custom post type just change the post_type in the array. Read more on Codex .

To change the URI format, go to your WordPress dashboard and then navigate to Settings->Permalink from menu and then select the Custom Structure radio button and enter /%postname%/%category%/ in the text box and then save the changes. Check this for more.