Do you mean like the “Residencies”, “Consultancy” and “Blog” pages on this site?
If so, you do it with category lists.
Cheers
PAE
Hi,
Something like that could work, yes.
As you can see, on our blog the “Media” page is similar but it’s not ideal. Looking for something that I could post JUST to the media page and it would not appear on the home page and vice versa.
Thanks!
Well, you can post just to a particular category list by giving the post the correct category.
As for the front page, as far as I know it is set up to display all recent posts whatever their category. I suppose you could include some code in home.php or index.php or whatever is appropriate to suppress the output of specific categories on the home page.
HTH
PAE
I know very little about coding though.
So is there no easy way to have two or three pages that have the “home page” format?
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Yes. As I say, via category lists. You can create categories and then allocate them to posts when you create or edit them. A category list is a posts page with all the posts in a particular category, as you can see from the example I gave you earlier.
The default format for a category page, using the twentyten theme looks like this. Your theme may look a bit different. As you can see from the site I linked to in an earlier post, you can alter that default layout, but to do so means doing a bit of coding. Not much, but some.
I think the category posts will appear on the home page as well, though, if you’re using the default home page.
HTH
PAE
Just had a look at your media page. I guess the problem you’re referring to there is the fact that the sidebar is way over to the right and below the content.
This is because on that and similar pages the sidebar is in the wrong place in the html. It needs to be inside the #container element. However, if this html is being generated by a plugin I’m afraid I’d be hard pressed to help you. You’d probably have to talk to the plugin developer.
Cheers
PAE
Hi all,
I think this is the solution to my question too.
So if I understand correctly, I can create a page that displays
a certain category, without any coding?
And when I don’t want that specific category to show up on my blog,
I need to code in order to filter it out?
Cheers
Yes for the first one.
It depends for the second one. If you mean for the category not to show up on your default home page, then yes. If you mean for it not to show up other posts pages probably not. For example on the example page(s) I’ve posted links to, the Blog (or E-log in one case) pages are just more examples of category lists, where I’ve created a category called ‘Blog’.
HTH
PAE
Peredur,
Thanks, I’ll think about how this will best suit my case.
Cheers
