How do I make pages out of categories?

  • pangdene

    (@pangdene)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    WP is all new to me so please forgive me if this is a stupid question?

    I want to build a site that looks more like a traditional site than a blog. So across the top will be all the main navigation links to the site pages, e.g. Home Music Media Concerts etc.

    When I post a new entry, I want the ability to have it under one or more categories, e.g. Music & Concerts.

    However, I don’t want Categories displayed down the side panel – I want them as main site pages as in the navigaton menu – does that make sense?

    So if somene goes to the Music page they see all entries in that category?

    Also there may be some fixed words & pictures at the top of each page and for those pages that display a category, I would like recent ones at the top but then an archive list at the bottom, so the page is never too long.

    Does that makes sense?

    I’m ready to start looking at themes, but I would really appreciate it if someone experienced could tell me if this is easily achievable and perhaps give me some pointers on where to look to get this done!

    Thank You!
    P 🙂

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    It makes sense… in a way.
    Just forget mixing Pages and categories. That’s bad!

    I’ll start with your second question. Take a look at the Category_Templates – that’s what you need for customizing the look of the “category archives” (that’s how we call it when posts in a category are displayed).

    When this part is done, just go and read the tutorial I wrote for all the people who wanted to force WP to do something un-natural (as putting categories in Pages). There is a much simpler way…

    Thread Starter pangdene

    (@pangdene)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks moshu – I can undersand how this might work!

    One other question – If I want some ‘static’ content (still editable) at the top of the category page (unique to that category), can I just ‘include’ another page, or is there another method?

    Cheers,
    P 🙂

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    You have a several options… I guess.
    a) hardcoding it in the template file (category-XX.php)
    b) using the get-a-post plugin, which means you can edit the content of that content from the Write > Write Page (I’d use Pages for this, since you can hide them from being displayed)
    c) a plain text included in the cat template by normal PHP include() etc.

    Thread Starter pangdene

    (@pangdene)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Look like option b) should do it then.

    thanks again – that really helps!

    Cheers,
    P 🙂

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