Pages vs categories

  • KateFerg

    (@kateferg)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I’m newly setting up my site and I’m using an outside template called StylishMag. I thought I was setting up categories across the top that can be clicked on with drop down menus, but now that I’ve started writing posts I realize that I can’t assign them to the categories because those are actually pages across the top of my site.

    From what I’m reading pages are just for things like bio and contact info. So how do I set up something similar but in a way that I can link articles to different categories of the site? I hope this makes sense.

    Here’s what it looks like without the content, but with the pages labeled

    http://divvymag.com/

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  • Pioneer Web Design

    (@swansonphotos)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    When you do so (create posts, add them to a specific category, and include menu items to the categories) what you are then seeing is called a Page of Posts. It’s not the post type ‘Page’. Those are different.

    Doing so is a great way to help site visitors find similar content.

    In the theme, there will be Page Templates that do this, or you can even make your own in a Child Theme.

    https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/#category

    jon

    (@adiant)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    WordPress is quite flexible in some ways. I have WordPress sites, for example, that don’t have a single Post. Everything is Pages.

    You are not stuck with only having Pages in your Menus. You can use Widgets to make a Menu of Categories, if you wish.

    I personally think it makes the most sense to back up a level and decide whether you want to use Pages or Posts. As you’ll see in the Codex (documentation) codex.wordpress.org

    • Posts can belong to one or more Categories
    • Pages can belong to one and only one Parent Page

    There are obviously some other differences between Pages and Posts, but I recommend you decide which you want to use, and then work through which one one you use with your Theme.

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