multiple categories – can I make one of them 'blog'?

  • deadpeasant

    (@deadpeasant)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    I have a live html site with a WP blog at domain.com/blog. I want a nice new all-WP site and am testing it with a new install at new.domain.com where I have installed the premium Enfold theme.

    I want the new site to have several updatable ‘topics’, different in style & content. Say, 1. one mainly videos & tutorials, 2. one with very short posts easily readable by learners of English, 3. my existing blog, which is quite technical, with many long articles. I’d like each ‘topic’ to have a different format and for readers to be able to subscribe to different ‘topics’.

    If I use WP ‘categories’ for my ‘topics’, then I gather from searching that it’s possible to give different each of these categories a different style by using ‘templates’, and to let readers subscribe separately to the different categories. I will try to figure out how to do this.

    My question is this: is it possible and/or sensible to name one of my categories ‘blog’? This is because, when the newer WP site goes live, I’d like my existing blog posts to keep their URLs, i.e. domain.com/blog/postname.

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  • CyberCobre

    (@cybercobre)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    RSS INFO: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds

    Cat feed code: http://example.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=42

    You can set up categories as topics, yes. There are also other possibilities, like using pages to pull the categorized posts in. Check the WP documentation.

    Thread Starter deadpeasant

    (@deadpeasant)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    My question is this: is it possible and/or sensible to name one of my categories ‘blog’?

    Will this cause problems?

    CyberCobre

    (@cybercobre)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    It shouldn’t that I know of.

    Greg Hyatt

    (@greghyatt)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    DeadPeasant

    Based on the way I am reading your question, I feel the best way to achieve what you are looking to achieve is to create your pages based on your individual categories. Then utilize whatever core features your theme provides for pulling individual categories into each perspective page. This will allow you to achieve what you are looking for. Of course another option would be to create a custom menu where you could merely list the categories as individual menu item’s, thus when someone clicks on one they only things they will see are articles that are assigned to that specific category. Hope that helps clarify that a bit for you!

    Thread Starter deadpeasant

    (@deadpeasant)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks Greg. I think I am gradually working in that direction.

    Let me try to clarify my question. For the last few years my only experience of WP has been running a WP blog within an html site at domain.com/blog. I am now exploring the world of an all-WP site. It seems to me that in WP, ‘blog’ has a special status. Or maybe I’m talking more about this theme I’ve bought, Enfold? For example, one of the first questions that the Enfold system asks you is ‘where should the blog be displayed?’

    My position is this. I’d like to treat ‘blog’ as just one of my categories. So I update several categories with posts, hypothetically:
    domain.com/food/postname
    domain.com/science/postname
    domain.com/blog/postname

    Now it seems that in some sense all posts are ‘blog posts’, and that the posts about ‘food’ and ‘science’ constitute ‘blogging’, but I nonetheless want to reserve domain.com/blog for the posts I’ve been posting to the WP blog in my html site (and which I will continue to add to). The reason is that I’d like to preserve the URLs of those existing posts, ie domain.com/blog/postname. These posts are quite lengthy articles and some of them have been referred to in Wikipedia articles and published books.

    I apologize for droning on at such length, but I’m trying to anticipate if there is a danger in simply treating ‘blog’ as a category like others.

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