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1. hikinandbikin
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have a wordpress site setup on at my domain. http://www.wserickson.com
   I have created several pages in addition to my main page, an about page a cooking page and a woodworking page. I would like to write blog posts and have them appear on certain pages. So, if I write about woodworking it is on the woodworking page. It seems like the post has to end up on the main page. Would I need to use the multiuser wordpress? Create multiple blogs and point them to the same page? It seems like there ought to be a way to select a page for a given post. Perhaps I can call a php command on the page to pull posts that are tagged with a certain keyword?
   Is this possible? I searched the forum but I couldn't find anything about this topic perhaps I just couldn't figure out a good way to describe my problem. I appreciate any help.
   Wyatt

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You're somewhat confused about what Pages are. Pages are basically static Posts. Like a "Contact" or "About Us" page. They get special URLs and special treatment, but a Page is a Post in a different format.

   If you want to sort Posts into different sections, then you're really thinking more about Categories.

3. hikinandbikin
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I get the idea that the pages are static. What I am wondering is if I can make them dynamic or perhaps effectively dynamic. Perhaps what I am really trying to do is have more than 1 blog reporting to different pages in my webpage.
   In the end I really just want to have multiple places to put posts about different topics. I am happy to do it by building multiple blogs or by building pages that show particular categories (This would be easier I suspect). I was just wondering if this is something that can be done easily or is common. If it can be done, where would I find guidelines for doing it.
   Wyatt

4. boober
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   if you just post to different categories, then the category pages are automatically created, and show only posts in those categories.
   example; http://www.justastupidgirl.com/category/technical

   not a great example, since mine are set to only show post titles, not content, but you can set yours to show full posts or excerpts, whichever you prefer.

5. jonathas_scott
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Yeah ! it took me a while to manage that "non-"sense separation wordpress does between Page (capitalized p) and archives.

   The point is:
   To accomplish what you are willing for, you will have to use categories, and if you intend to create different layouts for each categories i sugest you use some "if statements" that includes portions of your layout depending relying on categories, so with that you can "mount" your layout depending on its category.

   Ps. my first reply to someone elses dought, im new to wordpress, if im missing something here please someone correct me.

   :-)

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