Posted 1 year ago #
Hi!
I'm new to WordPress, coming from working with Joomla.
Is there a way in WP to organize "articles" (ie. pages, not blog posts) similar to the "category layout" in Joomla? For example, someone clicks a category and the next page shows all the articles (in that category) listed with a short description and a read more link?
In a way, it would be similar to the blog layout, but instead of posts it shows pages.
How can I do this?
Thank you,
Ben
Yep - they're called categories in WordPress too. :-) See Category_Templates.
Posted 1 year ago #
As far as I know it can't be done. http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
There may be a plugin that could do it but I took a quick look and didn't see one.
You could also have a page named Foo-foos and then have all the pages concerning Foo-foos under it as sub-pages. There is a plugin for displaying subpages.
Posted 1 year ago #
@esmi ... this is talking about posts. Does it also apply to pages? So if I click on a Category, that has pages assigned to it, will it show a listing of pages (similar to the blog posts)?
No - Pages don't have categories by default but you could use tags instead. Or custom fields.
Posted 1 year ago #
I suppose we can just do posts for the "articles" and categorize them. Are posts automatically archived away from view after a certain amount of time, or can we keep posts visible indefinitely?
Are posts automatically archived away from view after a certain amount of time
No. In WordPress, an archive is simply a list of posts. On one of my old blogs, I had links to archives going back 7 years.
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