Posted 4 years ago #
I want to have multiple blogs on my site, all under one main blog. So the main blog is the "home", and I have other pages that I want people to be able to post stuff on.
How do I do this? It appears to me that the "pages" are static and you can't post on them. Can I change this?
Thanks for your help
You can put posts on Pages but you will want to look at Page Templates. Along with this you would want people to assign their posts to a specific category, or tag, or Custom Field, then use those fields to 'filter' what posts get displayed on what Pages.
Posted 4 years ago #
Do you know of anyone that's done this? I'm really unfamiliar with Word Press, I don't know how to do all that. Is there a tutorial or something that I could follow?
Thanks for your help Michael!
You can simply have a list of authors in your sidebar, and when people click on one those links they'll see only the posts by that author.
Visit http://www.wildmind.org/category/blogs for an example -- click on say "Sunada" and you'll see all her posts.
You don't say what you want to do on the "home" page. Would it be static? Or just listing your own posts? Or something else?
Posted 4 years ago #
Thanks for the reply Haecceity!
On the home page I would have the main blog, and on the four other Pages I want a sort of mini blog. That is, I want all of these five pages to be able to be blogged on, with each of the Page's contents different.
I would not use Pages for this, I would use categories. Then separate the different "blogs" by using different categories. Any post you make will be in some category and then show up on that categories page. With the use of Category Templates, they can all look different.
I'd agree entirely that pages are not suitable for what you're wanting to do. Categories would work fine, and so would simply using links to author's posts.
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