auxillary
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Hi, I have been looking for this subject for hours and also the very extended docs section. Maybe it is just too extended that I can't find it. So here is my question then.
I want to set up kind of a portfolio. So for each category, I want to have their own Page (Parent Page Works - sub pages). My question is really this how to link 1 category to 1 Page?
So interactive Page shows only the posts in the category Interactive.
Furthermore please explain in detail as I am NOT a programmer which is my flaw (I know).
TIA,
Eric
rudyboles
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Don't know exactly what you want to achieve, but maybe it is useful to know that the link to a individual category is ?cat=x where x stands for the category id.
That's not a task for Pages > see http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
It should be accomplished by using Category Templates:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
Briefly, it works like this: you create a category-XX.php template for each category, where XX is the cat ID#.
You can style them totally differently. Put those template files in your theme's directory.
WP is "smart" enough to recognize them - so clicking on Interactive category it will select the proper template and display only the posts from that category.
More explanation on how this happens see in http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy
auxillary
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Hmmmm, did that, tried that, failed at that! I made category templates like mentioned, but when calling through my custom buttons (linkage: http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/?cat=4) I get an error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/sites/site194/web/wordpress/wp-content/themes/squible/category-4.php on line 50
Uhm ok?
I have no idea what do you have on line 50 :)
(and last time I checked squible was in Alpha state - ask the authors)
auxillary
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
I changed the theme (again) and made some modifications. I think I used a bad php file. Probably changed something I shouldn't have.
