Adding pages to existing directory structure

  • Resolved mattyk

    (@mattyk)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    Hi all,

    I’ve used wordpress before for an existing site where I added a blog section. I installed WP in a folder called “blog” then created my own theme based on the current site.

    I have something I’d like to do that is slightly different – as well as creating the blog section, there are also a few existing pages that I want to add comments to. These are currently in a folder called “books”

    I’d really like to be able to keep my existing structure as I have other things set up depending on the folder current pages are in.

    Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m wondering if there was a way to squirt the content of WP pages into current Pages that still allow for comments. Or a better way!

    If I installed WP at the root level could I move the posts into a “blog” folder and the pages into a “books” folder?

    Thanks in advance any comments are welcome!

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    You could put them in a “blog” category and a “books category.
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel

    Thread Starter mattyk

    (@mattyk)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    thanks for the reply. – I think I see some potential now.

    would this work do you think?

    I could install wordpress at the root.

    create a post category called books and also create a “slug” for it called books.

    Creating the slug means that it would show folder name in the URL. Then my JS (which looks for this folder name) would work.

    I could do the same with the blog so I have “blog” in my folder. Then if I need to add further categories I could create those as subcategories of “blog”.

    Then on my post page I could hide all posts in the “book” category.

    Do that seem to make sense or should I really be using “pages” for this?

    thanks in advance

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    I think you have a good plan.
    Pages work very well for an overall CMS but I think your 1st idea would work better for your site.

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