The easiest way I have found (no coding involved!) to do this is to use the Page Links To plugin as described in this thread.
Display the posts of one category in a Page SOLVED !! (37 posts)
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Mark / t31os
Posted 2 years ago #From my understanding all you're doing then is redirecting the page somewhere else, which defeats the point of using the page does it not?..
Isn't the point of using a page so you can have a particular URL for that content...
So rather then having..
yoursite.com/category/books
You'd have..
yoursite.com/books
Books being the name of the page, which makes for a shorter (and maybe desired) URL.
For page links that point offsite i can understand the use for that plugin, but for linking a page to a WordPress archive, it seems accessive, a hard-coded link could do exactly the same, without any overhead caused by loading an additional plugin..
Am i missing something?
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Many themes create their menu from Pages, so adding a category to the menu can be a problem. The plugin lets you use a Page, which goes into the menu, to redirect to a category archive, among other things.
Where would you put a hard-coded link for this case?
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Posted 2 years ago #Alongside the code handling the menu? in the template file...
I honestly cannot figure out why you'd to install a plugin just for the sake of a single link (other then pure simplicity).. You could do the same with a htaccess rule for what it's worth to.. We are discussing a singular link here, not several, and imo it seems overkill for something that could be handled by one line of code, either via a htaccess rule or via a hard-coded link..
It's un-necessary plugin additions like this that add to plugin overhead, which in turn leads to dreadfully slow sites... Where possible you should always hard-code, unless you have a particular need that warrants something more versatile(or easier).. like a plugin ...
What's easy now, my not be the best decision for your site in the long run.. if you can hard-code, then do it, it'll be one less area of concern should you face any performance issues somewhere down the road, be it months, weeks or years later...
Not saying it's a bad idea, just unwarranted for this use case.. imho..
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IMHO, it is just a lot easier for a novice to put a link in a page than to potentially bomb their site trying to change code in a template. If you are an experienced (even slightly) programmer, go for it, otherwise take the safest approach.
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Posted 2 years ago #Agreed, if it's for the sake of simplicity i see no problem, we can't all be coders/programmers .. :)
You give alot of sound advice here mate, i'd not disagree with you just for the sake of disagreeing ... ;)
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Morgs
Posted 2 years ago #All of these solutions are great for me thanks.
Though I am running into one problem.
I am setting up a page with a parent and applying the one category only template to that page. It all works great accept in my menu list .current_page_item is no longer being applied to that page.
Any ideas?
current_page_parent still gets applied to the parent item.
Thanks
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