Noob Help – Multi-Page Website

  • questions4wp

    (@questions4wordpress)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    I’m a very minor web developer who’s thinking of making a new website with WordPress. I am going to be posting a whole bunch of articles that my friends and I write onto a website. Because of the nature of constant posting, I figured that a blog content manager would be the best shot. I’ve used WordPress before, but I’m looking for a specific function now.

    When users go to my URL, I want them to see a static home page. On this home page will be several links, such as Articles, Pictures, Movies, etc. Each link will go to its own WordPress-managed blog page, which will show only the Articles posts, only the Pictures posts, etc. In other words, I don’t want any page that shows everything, and I want to be able to make an ‘Article’ post that shows up on the Article page.

    I basically want to know what the WordPress ‘technique’ here is. One theory I had was to put in a different WordPress installation for every new page, but I assume there’s a significantly easier way that I just don’t know about. The other thing I thought of was to basically hide the main page away by never linking to it, make the home page not WordPress managed so it won’t change, and make each link a link to a specific Category of post. I don’t know, seems a little odd also. Thanks for any help you can give me.

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  • Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    you could use page templates to stylize a page the way you want your static page to look

    Then within your wordpress options, you have the option to use a static page as your front page…..

    Thread Starter questions4wp

    (@questions4wordpress)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Ok, I didn’t know that option was available but I’ll look for it, that would make things significantly easier.

    But for the sections thing – I’d like from this static home page to be able to link to a page showing only certain posts, and then another link to another page showing a separate, distinct group of posts. How would I do that? Categorize each post and then have the links go to that Category?

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    you got it!

    Thread Starter questions4wp

    (@questions4wordpress)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Ok, thank you. One more question – what exactly is the purpose of making new pages? Essentially I guess what my site comes down to is one static page and a whole bunch of posts, which are then displayed based on different dynamic pages based on category. Are the “Pages” (as opposed to posts) just other static pages?

    ripriprip

    (@ripriprip)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    I don’t understand this at all.

    I want a basic 4 page website. | Home | About | Services | Contact |

    Those will be the headings of each page, and what I want to show at the top of my site.

    Are these pages, categories or posts?

    Is there instruction, on how to do this, I’m missing something I guess, because it can’t be that hard.

    Oh, and I don’t want each page to show all the content. I’ve seen other peoples sites, where their HOME page shows everything on their site..

    Please anyone, I need a little help. I tried searching the form, but not sure how to get a close hit, I thought this might be a close hit.

    Thanks in advance
    Tammy

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    well…the home | about, etc are pages.

    They will show at the top of your site if the theme you select supports that….most do

    The pages you create will only have the content you put in them….

    the home page, by design shows your recent blog entries. If you don’t like that, you can change it so you use a static page. First, you create that page. Then from your admin panel, go to settings->reading and set your front page to static page and select the page you want to be your front page from the drop down….

    That should get you started

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