Need help with WordPress formatting

  • gjmontigny

    (@gjmontigny)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, I’m new to all of this. My blog is hosted by Dreamhost and the WordPress installation is from Dreamhost. I tried posting this question on the WordPress.com forum, but was told I need to get help from the Dreamhost support community or this community (“With your current setup you’ll either contact your host for WordPress assistance or visit the community forums at wordpress dot org”). I’m hoping someone here can help.

    I’ve been able to figure out many of the basics in WordPress and have set up my first blog. Now I want to get to the point where I can structure the site to have each category as it’s own page ( I can set those up easily enough) and structure the home page with links to these separate pages so the user can navigate to them. I’d rather have a somewhat static homepage and not have latest posts all showing on the home page first.

    I have my categories set and have created a few posts assigning them to categories. As I said, I would like to set up a page per category (I think) so that my home page shows an annotated graphic per category such that when it is clicked, it navigates to the posts for that category.

    For instance, I have a category called Restaurant Reviews and one called sites we’ve seen. Using these 2 as examples, my homepage would show 2 graphics that I’ve annotated each with their respective Category name. When I click on the Restaurant Reviews pic, it would navigate to the “category” page that shows all posts having to do with Restaurant Reviews. There the latest posts for that category would show.

    From my research, I think I want to do this with pages, but I’ve also seen indications it may be done with menus with pages (or categories) tied to the menu items??

    This is where I’m getting too deep in the weeds and need some help. I’m not a programmer, but I can (I think) understand some semi-technical discussions. In my previous life I was a business analyst and could help the developers by reading their code…I’m not a programmer though. Hopefully someone from these forums can help. Thanks in advance!

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  • paulwpxp

    (@paulwp)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    As I said, I would like to set up a page per category (I think) so that my home page shows an annotated graphic per category such that when it is clicked, it navigates to the posts for that category.

    What you are asking for is very doable and been done countless of times.

    For instance, I have a category called Restaurant Reviews and one called sites we’ve seen. Using these 2 as examples, my homepage would show 2 graphics that I’ve annotated each with their respective Category name. When I click on the Restaurant Reviews pic, it would navigate to the “category” page that shows all posts having to do with Restaurant Reviews. There the latest posts for that category would show.

    We just need a regulay Page set as static front home page. In the content of this Page, just manually put in image linked to its associate category archive’s url, and that’s it. Of course, some additional CSS might be required for special alignment of those elements.

    There are a lot of themes that pull categories with some of its latest posts and displayed in the front homepage in a so-called magazine design. Those need some extra php coding to tell WP to query each category. But what you need here is just a linked image to each category archive, so the php coding is not necessary. In this case, you just need to know some basic html, a linked image to category archive’s url, and maybe some additional CSS for alignment if needed.

    Thread Starter gjmontigny

    (@gjmontigny)

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Font Hero. I’ll give this a try. I don’t suppose you have any suggestions on free Word Press themes that can help? Using an existing theme and playing around with that? My current is based on Twenty Sixteen and that seems to be limited to how many pages it can have. Thanks again.

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