How do I organize posts?

  • mdelaflor

    (@mdelaflor)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    I am still trying to get a handle on working with WP. I am building a site that will feature several catagories. The first two that I am working on ar Articles and Tutorials. I am using the iNove theme.

    I have added several articles to the Articles catagory but now all of the those posts are showing up on the front page. How can I tell WP to only display a specific post on the front page and not all of the others.

    Also on a search or listing of the articles how can I get WP to display a list of the articles (for instance the titles) and not the articles themselves as that creates an extremely long page.

    Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

    Mike

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Hi – What you want to do is tell WP to exclude certain categories from appearing on your front page This is done with a query_posts() line before the WordPress loop.

    If you are not a coder, check out this plugin
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-category-excluder/

    If you code, check
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
    You are interested in the Category Exclude option
    Basically you add a one line query_posts() before the loop, in index.php, to exclude the category you don’t want on the homepage.

    As far as a listing, you find the template that is generating the list (which one depends on what part of WP you are displaying this list on, and remove the code that calls the_excerpt() or the_content(). Then you will just get the list of article titles.

    That code might interfere with the proper display of full articles where you do want that. Should that happen you add conditional code to that template telling WP the conditions where you want the full detail to display and where you want only the title.

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