News Page to look like posts

  • Resolved dorecchio

    (@dorecchio)


    17 years, 2 months ago

    I would like to have a static news page, seperate from the blog page, that lists news items in reverse chronological order and have the content show in the form of a post. This means that the most recent news item appears first as a paragraph (with a more link) and then the next news release.

    Right now I am using static pages for news with sub pages for each release.

    Is there a better way to do this?

    – Dave

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Have a look at Category_Templates. Why not do it as a category view?

    Thread Starter dorecchio

    (@dorecchio)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    That would work so long as I could create a WordPress Page that displayed the category items. I need this since I would like to have a tab at the top of the page called “news” and have that page show the news items. As I understand this suggestion, I would post the news as blog items and set the category as news. The news page would then show them in reverse order of posting. If I can make a page to show them, this would work.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Why always going the hard way? Instead of forcing posts into Pages… wouldn’t be simpler to insert the “catgeory name” in the Pages list in the menu?
    (just wondering)

    Thread Starter dorecchio

    (@dorecchio)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    I decided to implement this approach which describes editing the page.php file. I tried to implement this as a new page template for that page only, but it did not work. I kept getting blank pages so I followed the directions and edited page.php.

    It would have been preferable to create a new page template so that I would have a standard install with an additional page.

    Just have some tweaking to do.

    Thread Starter dorecchio

    (@dorecchio)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Moshu, How would I go about implementing your suggestion of listing the category name in the pages list in the Menu? Part of my problem is that I am new to this. I appreciate your help.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Without seeing the blog and theme it is difficult to say… the basic idea is to add manually a link to the Pages list.
    It has been asked many times (mainly in order to add a “home link” to the Pages list), so you should be able to find the answer with code by searching.

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