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1. WarAxe
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Is there a convenient way to do the following using
   purely pages?

   I want to have a page of Projects (post-like entries
   with download links, etc.) listing them in the same
   style as my posts (and only on my Projects page).

   I toyed with the idea of making a page in WP called
   Projects and then making posts of a special category
   and just excluding that category from being listed
   anywhere else but then my projects will show up as
   being part of my "Archive", not part of my "Projects".

   I also want to have a page of flash files that will
   be another page deep (games, apps, movies, etc.) before
   it actually lists out the entries (again, post-like).

   Is there a convenient way to do this using purely pages?

2. davidhouse
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Create the project pages as pages, not as posts. Same with the flash files.

3. WarAxe
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Okay, but then how would I have a "master" page that listed
   the sub-pages as if they were posts? And then people could
   click on the "permalink" to go to the individual project page.

4. davidhouse
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Do it manually, or write a plugin that uses get_children(), or use the sidebar.

5. tikimaticdotcom
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   create a page and name it home.php: this is your "master" page, located in your theme folder.
   If you don't want to create it from scratch, just open index.php & save it as home.php: then customize it the way you want.
   Then to have all pages listed in the body of home.php, copy'n'paste the php function listing pages from sidebar.php to home.php

   check out the WP Codex http://codex.wordpress.org sections related to Pages

6. WarAxe
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ok, I see what you guys are saying. Pretty much I'll have to
   handle them all manually. Maybe there's still a way to do it
   automatically.

   I could have php that lists out the children pages of my master
   project page. And when it lists the pages it could get the first
   200 characters or so of the page to provide a "blurb" of what
   to expect... with the permalink then going to the individual
   project page itself.

7. davidhouse
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yeah, that's what I meant when I said write a plugin. Sorry, I wasn't clear.

8. angsuman
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Call me picky but what is all these free space doing on the right :)

9. WarAxe
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   ??? Come again?

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