Creating Website with automated list & posts?

  • sirup117

    (@sirup117)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hey,

    I have a question about how to set up a wordpress site. I want to create a website where I can list up different “Sets” from a game. Basically, you get to the homepage, you can choose on the menue for example “Light Armor” and then get directed to a list like shown in the picture. Once on that list you will see many different sets, then you can click on a specific set and get a detailed post about the set.

    Now my question is, is it possible to set up a database with all those sets? So they later will get directly implemented with all the information in both the “list of Sets” and the detailed post? or does this have to be done manually?

    Picture link: https://imgur.com/a/IosBT

    So the Process:
    1. Choose from Menue a subcategory > get directed to the List of Sets
    2. Choose a specific set in the List > get directed to the detailed page
    3. Detailed page with Information.

    I managed to set up the homepage and menue, but now I am unsure on how to create a database with all sets and automate list & detailed post?

    Would this require a costum made plugin to get it to work, or are there such plugins available somewhere?

    Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by sirup117.
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  • CrouchingBruin

    (@crouchingbruin)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Have you tried assigning categories to your posts? Then you can just display a category page that shows the post excerpts for each of the posts that belong to that category.

    1. From the dashboard, go to Posts → Categories.
    2. Create a category for each type of set.
    3. Go into each post and assign a category to it. You can also quickly assign categories by going to the All Posts page and clicking the Quick Edit link for each post.
    4. Create a menu item for that category. Go to Appearance → Menus. On the left should be a section called Categories. If you don’t see that section, click on the Screen Options tab in the upper right corner of the window, check the Categories checkbox,/strong>, and the section should now appear.
    5. Check the boxes for your categories, click the Add to Menu button, and arrange the menu items to your liking. Save the menu.

    Now, when you click on the menu item for the category, you’ll get a list of all of the posts that belong to that category. The appearance of your post excerpts will depend upon the theme you’re using, although you can do some cosmetic changes using CSS. If you want certain text to appear as the post excerpt, you probably want to enter a manual excerpt for each of your posts. Some themes may ignore the manual excerpt, though, so you’ll have to either see about changing themes or creating a child theme of your existing theme to customize the post excerpt.

    By default, the post excerpts will be displayed in descending order according to post date, so if you want a particular sort order, adjust the post dates.

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