Title: Posts – categories, etc Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Posts – categories, etc * [TBaker14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbaker14/) * (@tbaker14) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/) * Newbie question here… * I have 3 categories: New, Previous Articles and the default “Uncategorized”. * My Post page has a Featured slider at the top, then shows the posts underneath in order of the date posted. Regardless of the category to which I assign each post, they all show in the body of the page. * My question is…if I have a couple in the New category…and a couple in the Previous category…is there a way to give the reader the option of selecting the category? For example, all new posts are shown below…then the for Previous Posts, you would have to click a link? * TBaker14 Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755566) * Just use the Category Widget and let that present the links for your categories. * Thread Starter [TBaker14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbaker14/) * (@tbaker14) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755632) * Is the Category Widget a separate download? * Thread Starter [TBaker14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbaker14/) * (@tbaker14) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755792) * OK…I tried the Category Widget that comes with WordPress. The only problem is that it shows up on all my pages…not just my “post” page. I don’t what all the pages to show it. * Thoughts? * Thread Starter [TBaker14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbaker14/) * (@tbaker14) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755802) * So…just to re-cap… * I have my “post” page set as a specific page (**HR News**)…I have a static Home Page. * I would like my “post” page to show my most recent posts (category is “New”) on the page itself. Then, I would like the other categories (i.e. Previous Posts) to show up somewhere on that page so that viewers can click to link to them. * Can you have more than 1 post page? * Any thoughts? * Thread Starter [TBaker14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbaker14/) * (@tbaker14) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755815) * Anyone???? * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755822) * 1. Code your template to list posts in different loops. See: [Stepping Into Template Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Template_Tags) [Stepping Into Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates) [Template Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy) [The Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop) 2. Use plugins such as: # [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postlists/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postlists/)# [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pages-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pages-posts/)# [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/)( uses shortcode) # [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-posts-list/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-posts-list/)( uses shortcode} # [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nurelm-get-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nurelm-get-posts/)( uses shortcode) * Thread Starter [TBaker14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbaker14/) * (@tbaker14) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755830) * WOW…I’m finding this hard to understand. I tried the 2nd plugin link, but nothing happened. My guess is that I’m missing something (or many things). Looks like I have alot of learning to do. I was hoping there would be an easy way to do this. * Thread Starter [TBaker14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbaker14/) * (@tbaker14) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755840) * OK then…I guess I’m on my own. I did come across a site that does exactly what I want. That is…the Categories and Achrives are listed along the side of the post page…but not on any other pagee. * [http://www.employmentlawissues.com](http://www.employmentlawissues.com) * See how only the Blog page shows the categories and archives? How do I do that? * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755847) * > See how only the Blog page shows the categories and archives? How do I do that? * Use the category and archives widget. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Posts – categories, etc’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-categories-etc/#post-1755847) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics