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1. TBaker14
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Newbie question here...

   I have 3 categories: New, Previous Articles and the default "Uncategorized".

   My Post page has a Featured slider at the top, then shows the posts underneath in order of the date posted. Regardless of the category to which I assign each post, they all show in the body of the page.

   My question is...if I have a couple in the New category...and a couple in the Previous category...is there a way to give the reader the option of selecting the category? For example, all new posts are shown below...then the for Previous Posts, you would have to click a link?

   TBaker14

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just use the Category Widget and let that present the links for your categories.

3. TBaker14
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Is the Category Widget a separate download?

4. TBaker14
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   OK...I tried the Category Widget that comes with WordPress. The only problem is that it shows up on all my pages...not just my "post" page. I don't what all the pages to show it.

   Thoughts?

5. TBaker14
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   So...just to re-cap...

   I have my "post" page set as a specific page (**HR News**)...I have a static Home Page.

   I would like my "post" page to show my most recent posts (category is "New") on the page itself. Then, I would like the other categories (i.e. Previous Posts) to show up somewhere on that page so that viewers can click to link to them.

   Can you have more than 1 post page?

   Any thoughts?

6. TBaker14
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Anyone????

7. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   1. Code your template to list posts in different loops.
   See:
   Stepping Into Template Tags
   Stepping Into Templates
   Template Hierarchy
   The Loop
   2. Use plugins such as:
   # http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postlists/
   # http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pages-posts/
   # http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/ (uses shortcode)
   # http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-posts-list/ (uses shortcode}
   # http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nurelm-get-posts/ (uses shortcode)

8. TBaker14
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   WOW...I'm finding this hard to understand. I tried the 2nd plugin link, but nothing happened. My guess is that I'm missing something (or many things). Looks like I have alot of learning to do. I was hoping there would be an easy way to do this.

9. TBaker14
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   OK then...I guess I'm on my own. I did come across a site that does exactly what I want. That is...the Categories and Achrives are listed along the side of the post page...but not on any other pagee.

   http://www.employmentlawissues.com

   See how only the Blog page shows the categories and archives? How do I do that?

10. MichaelH
    Volunteer
    Posted 1 year ago #

    See how only the Blog page shows the categories and archives? How do I do that?

    Use the category and archives widget.

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