WordPress automatically can do this just by using the normal Category process. Look at the WordPress Default 1.6 Theme and click on one of the Categories in the sidebar.
That’s not quite what I’m looking for… See, I want to be able to “Write” a page that will show up in the horizontal menu across the top, then write posts that will ONLY show up on THAT page. Posts “1a 2a 3a 4a 5a” will only show up on page “A” whereas posts “1b 2b 3b 4b 5b” will only show up on page “B” and so on. Understand? Just separating everything into categories isn’t quite what I was wanting.
You can kind of strong arm it. But before I go further I want to understand the nature of your “posts.” Will these be changing, chronological items? Or static pages?
If they are going to be static pages? In other words, to use you example, if the actual content of posts “1a 2a 3a 4a 5a” will be static and unchanging, just create a WP Page and put that content in there.
If however, you do want each individual post “1a 2a 3a 4a 5a” to appear in some kind of order within a page, then there is a fix. It’s not elegant but it can be done.
However, I want to know the nature of your content to make sure you’re using WP the way it is intended, will make life much easier for you in the long run. Make sense? 🙂
ok, let me give you the quick and dirty rundown…
Let’s say I have a page called “Downloads” that I “wrote” using the admin panel. In the “Downloads” page I want to be able to write posts which will include files for people to download along with a thumbnail (if supported) and a short description.
However, I don’t want the “Downloads” posts to show up on the main page. I want them to ONLY show up in the corresponding page: Downloads.
I want it to be easily maintainable by just writing a post and categorizing it “Downloads” so that it will automatically show up on the downloads page rather than on the main page.
Understand?
THanks.
Then you should create a custom category template. You can read abou that here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
The trick is to get it where the pages appear in the page listings. A friend of mine posted a neat trick to get an outside URL onto your Page Nav. But you could just as easily link it to your custom category page if you wanted to:
http://www.ivovic.net/2008/05/20/turn-a-wordpress-page-into-a-link
So once you have your category template created, and for example, if the category is called downloads, then if you have permalinks turned on, your site URL for the downloads category would be:
http://mycoolsite.com/category/downloads/
Your page would be called downloads and that’s what would appear in the Page Nav. But when it’s clicked on, it takes you to the category template page. Make sense?
Once all that is set up, all you ever need do is post to your downloads category and WP will take care of the rest. Hope this helps you to achieve what you want.
GREAT! Thanks a bunch. I was beginning to think it wasn’t achievable. I don’t have time to try it out right now, but from what I can tell it looks like it makes sense enough to work. Thanks again!
Josh
@jonimueller
Thanks so much! That works like a charm! It’s a little time intensive for doing an entire site that way… but it does get the job done the way I envisioned it.
Thanks again,
Josh
