WordPress has templates already set up, though you can mess around with them, which is talked about a lot here. So what kind of site architecture are you thinking about?
Categories are their own pages, representing the posts within the category, and Pages (individual Pages – unique to 1.5) tend to work outside of the blog process, since they are treated differently, tend to hold static information (Like about us, contact us, register, etc.) and can be messed around with to replace categories…but why when you have something already there?
So you have to be more specific with what you want. I’m working on changing a completely static html site into WordPress and using it more like a Context Management System (CMS) than a blog, though I will take advantage of the blogging features, so I, among others, are familiar with what you are asking, but we need a little more information from you.
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Dragan
(@dragan)
OK, here is website structure for this project:
- Current Issue
- Archive
- For Authors
- Editorial Board
- Contact
- Discussion Board
- Patence Education
- Classified Ads
- Directory
So Articles, Discussion Board, Patence Education, Classified Ads and Directory should be main categories. And Articles category will contain mentioned pages above.
So what is the best way to organize this?
thanks in advance,
Dragan
From the Admin Panel > Manage > Categories
Does that help?
You can set up subcats, too, and sub-subcats.
The problem here would be that I think WP either lists category alphabetically, what this means is Archives would appear forst being A. You can change this, however, either by the use of adding spaces at the start of the category name or you can visit the wordpress wiki for a much more consistent solution which will allow you to arrange youu categories by ID or other.
Using spaces for example would mean you have your most promininent topic using he most spaces based on the number of maincategories.
So in this case the requested topic to be on top would be current issue. So when labelling the category Current Issue, at the start ofthe topic yo would add 4 spaces. Then for the next catyegory 3 spaces and so on. The spaces are invisible to the user so it just looks ordered rather than lots of spaces displaying.
Or ayou canm visit the wiki and make a change. What this means is, say the categories as you list them have the ID number by their side as 1-4 in that order, changing the code within a template file will allow the categories to be displays as such. Otherwise by default they would display as:
Archive
Content
Current Issues
etc
Lorelle has pointed you in the right direction with regards to making cats and sub cats.
Thread Starter
Dragan
(@dragan)
First of all thanky guys for your info! I already made mentioned categories and sub-categories. But the problem is how to make pages in categories and sub-categories? I saw that I can make posts but I don’t want a posts I want a real pages? How to do that?
Maybe I should use pages and sub-pages instead of categories? What do yo think guys?
thanks in advance,
Dragan
As long asyou remember that Pages are simply for static information that is unlikely to change. It offers the benefit of being a document that will remain as is regardless of the content changes around it.
When you create a new page, I believe it allows you to assign it to a category or automatically does so in 1.5. So create a new category, then create the page and assign it to that category.
I:m curious about the sub-pages. Are you saying your entire site should be pages only?
Here’s a copy and paste of another post I made:
You may want to read up on pages here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
It explains what you can and cannot do, and how to do what you can do. Hope it helps.
With regards to the URI question again in the codex. search for Permalinks and you will find the answer related to that question. It will explain how to set up your permalinks (which is also explained in the admin panel.
Thread Starter
Dragan
(@dragan)
Thank you Jinsan! I’m going to take a look of this url. Also can you tell me how to assign a page to category? I didn’t see that option in WP admin panel. You can assign post to category but I’m not sure for pages.
