new posts added to menu

  • harvestdesign

    (@harvestdesign)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I just took over a WordPress site and am new to WordPress (been using Drupal for the last eight years). The site was in need of updating when I took over but since I updated it one of the menus has been including all new posts. The menu “Products” should include categories >> /category/products/…./ but now it’s including all posts from /products/ as well. I thought it was a Category setting but I can’t find anything checked that shouldn’t be. Maybe a Taxonomy issue but again I can’t find any settings that would cause this. How do I only allow /category/ items on the menu and prevent /products/ items from being added to the menu?
    I hope that all makes sense. Thanks in advance.

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  • TrishaM

    (@trisham)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    the folder /products/ is the same thing as saying “in category products”…..

    What you might consider is using a Custom Post Type for your actual “products”, and leave the ‘category’ for your blog posts, although personally I think that could potentially still be confusing for your customers…..it’s workable if your site makes clear the difference between blog posts *about* a product and the actual product.

    Going this route really gives you some flexibility for linking Posts to the Product page, and Products to the Posts (using tags to make the connection).

    If you’re good with PHP, you don’t really need a plugin, as it’s pretty straightforward to create the Custom Post Type(s) via your functions.php file, but if you’re not comfortable writing code, there are several Plugins that will do it for you – Types & Views is a good one, but there are others.

    Here’s the codex page on creating custom post types manually:
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types

    If you search on Custom Post Types plugins, you’ll find plenty.

    There is also a good plugin for doing mass changes on Posts, so you can swap the existing posts in the /category/products to the new Custom Post Type – be sure to backup your database first!!! I’ve used it without problems but better safe than sorry

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/convert-post-types/

    There’s a couple of other similar plugins, but I’ve used the one above with good success.

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