Posted 3 years ago #
hi guys, I've got a problem assigning posts in other pages categories.
for example on my blog's home page, the post I made was put under the category news, however on the about page, the article there is assigned to "uncategorized" and I don't know how to change it. Could anyone help out?
Hi
To clarify: pages can not have categories. only posts. posts are displayed ON PAGES, so it can look like a page has a category if only one post per page, maybe. but the category is actually with the post.
posts are not "put under" any category. the only way a post can appear in a category is if someone ASSIGNS it to that category. with the exception of uncategorized. if a post is assigned to no category at all, it will be marked as uncategorized. The about page typically is a page and thus not in a category, not even uncategorized. If it appears as being in a category then a post must be displaying on that page.
When you edit a post below the edit window you will find a section category. It is there that a post is assigned or removed from a category. So look at your list of posts and find the one that's on the about page and edit it - there you can change its category.
make sense?
Posted 3 years ago #
Ah, I see. In that case that leads to another issue being I can't make posts on pages other than the home page. Through the control panel how can I make posts on other pages?
Hi
You can put posts on pages using a PHP function called query_posts() Not through the control panel, although there are probably plugins that will help. But even to use the plugin you have to understand something about how query_posts works.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
I explained this yesterday to someone in depth - please look here for how to use it to display one category of posts on one page and another category on another page - thank you...
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/264482?replies=9#post-1053767
One thing - the person in that post wound up using the NAME of the page as the indicator of which page she is on. I recommend using the last part of the url, which is called in WP the page slug instead of the page Name. You will see what I mean when you look at the post.
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