Can you put categories on select pages and not all of them

  • dfennell1

    (@dfennell1)


    13 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, Can you add categories to maybe one or two pages, without putting the categories on all of your pages. If so, how can you accomplish this. Is there a plugin or widget?

    Thanks,

    Dave Fennell

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  • beingzoe

    (@beingzoe)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    There are a lot of ways this could be done, but the easiest would be to use widgetized areas (aka sidebars).

    A lot of modern themes come with often times a ridiculous number of widgetized areas. Depending on the client I am working for I will make as many widgetized areas as necessary. But by default I use the following strategy as my starting point…

    • Home sidebar
    • Blog sidebar
    • Pages sidebar
    • 3-4 Footer areas

    Then I add new areas as needed. But the logic here is that if you are running a website with a blog and not just a blog, probably you are going to want different sidebar content for site pages than in your blog. And moreover most professional sites have a fully custom home page layout so that is definitely going to need it’s own. But in many cases you will have whole sections, individual pages/categories/templates that you want to have it’s own sidebar widget areas.

    I use something like this in my sidebar.php to output the above examples…

    if ( is_front_page() )
    ...dynamic sidebar code here for 'home' sidebar...
else if ( is_page()  )
    ...dynamic sidebar code here for 'page' sidebar...
else
    ...dynamic sidebar code here for 'blog/other' sidebar...

    This is the code from TwentyTen to add a new widgetized area…

    register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Primary Widget Area', 'twentyten' ),
		'id' => 'primary-widget-area',
		'description' => __( 'The primary widget area', 'twentyten' ),
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
	) );

    Change 'Primary Widget Area', 'primary-widget-area', and 'The primary widget area' to the new name of the widget area, the id of the widget area (also used to output it – see below), and the text that will appear in the widget box in the admin to describe what/where that widget area is for.

    The simplest way to output the dynamic sidebar is…

    if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'id-you-entered-for-new-area' ) ) { }

    However you are also going to need to edit your sidebar with some conditions to determine which sidebar should be showing (see my example above). OR you can make a page template and a new sidebar template (e.g. special-pages1.php and sidebar-special-pages1.php or whatever) and include the “special pages” sidebar explicitly in the “special pages” template.

    But I’m not sure there is a quick and easy answer if you are not already comfortable with php other than review these codex articles and experimenting/learning…

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

    Everything you need to do this (and more) are in those links.

    This is the sort of thing that I have seen plugins for that seem unnecessary when, with a little bit of html/css/php and the codex, it really is only a few lines of code in the right place.

    I hope this helps. Find your day well.

    Amit_k

    (@amit_k)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Hey what exactly you want to do? You wanted to put list of categories in sidebar of one or two pages?
    UPDATE :
    Try to find such code in your themes sidebar.php

    <div class="widget widget_categories">
			<h3>Categories</h3>
			<ul>
			     <?php wp_list_categories(); ?>
			</ul>
	</div>

    Above code will display a list of categories in sidebar. So you have to add a conditional statement so that the code will execute only in particular pages.

    Include above code bewteen this :

    if ( is_home(array(42,2,4))) {
        // put the code which shows the list of categorie here
    }

    ( 42,2,4 are page-ID’s on which you want to show list of categories.)

    Thats it, it will show the list of categories only on three pages.

    – How to find page ID ?

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