Posts – categories, etc

TBaker14
(@tbaker14)

15 years, 6 months 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

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MichaelH
(@michaelh)

15 years, 6 months ago

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

Thread Starter TBaker14
(@tbaker14)

15 years, 6 months ago

Is the Category Widget a separate download?

Thread Starter TBaker14
(@tbaker14)

15 years, 6 months 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?

Thread Starter TBaker14
(@tbaker14)

15 years, 6 months 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?

Thread Starter TBaker14
(@tbaker14)

15 years, 6 months ago

Anyone????

MichaelH
(@michaelh)

15 years, 6 months 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)

Thread Starter TBaker14
(@tbaker14)

15 years, 6 months 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.

Thread Starter TBaker14
(@tbaker14)

15 years, 6 months 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?

MichaelH
(@michaelh)

15 years, 6 months 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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