If you use Pages rather than Posts to store your content, then you can then create your top level Pages as Main Page (No Parent), and set the Page Parent for each of the children to the appropriate Main Page.
No need to use categories at all 🙂
John
I already have about half my articles moved into posts, so I’d prefer not to have to backtrack. Is there a way to do this using category pages?
OK, I found a way to do this, but I’m having trouble getting it running on my site. I know I’m missing a line at the end of each section, but I don’t know what it is.
<h3>Stuff About Me</h3>
<ul>
<?php
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=2&order=ASC&category=34');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<li> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php the_excerpt(); ?></li><p>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<li> <a href=http://www.lisavollrath.com/pages/category/according-to-lisa/about-me/>more articles in this category...</a></li></ul>
<h3>Stuff About My Art</h3>
<ul>
<?php
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=2&order=ASC&category=39');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<li> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php the_excerpt(); ?></li><p>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<li> <a href=http://www.lisavollrath.com/pages/category/according-to-lisa/about-my-art/>more articles in this category...</a></li></ul>
<h3>Stuff About My Workspace</h3>
<ul>
<?php
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=2&order=ASC&category=35');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<li> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php the_excerpt(); ?></li><p>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<li> <a href=http://www.lisavollrath.com/pages/category/according-to-lisa/about-my-workspace/>more articles in this category...</a></li></ul>
What goes between each section? I’ve tried <?php endwhile; ?> between each one, and I get a blank page. I’ve also tried <?php endif; ?>, and same blankness. However, if I post it as is, I get the desired result in the first section—title, the first two articles, and a more link—and then just title, bullets, and the more link for the remaining sections. It’s just not sucking in the article links this way.
Sorry if that’s a winding description. I’m an artist, not a developer, and up until two weeks ago, I was doing everything on my site with perl and cgi. This PHP stuff is kicking my butt…
Oh, also, if anyone has a shorter way to write all the hard coded links, I’m all ears.
Nevermind—I worked it out myself. Thanks so much for all the help.
I have exactly the same need for a page with articles broken down by category…I really enjoy WP – but I also need such a page, but can’t figure it out….I really like the solution lisa has done on her webpage – but I can’t implemented on mine….anyone knows the code?
