You could do it by displaying a specific category on this page, and using it as a “blog”.
You’d have all the categories except this one on your main blog, and this new category displayed as a separate page.
Would this solution be working for you ? Is that what you’re looking for ?
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Actually that would work.
Hm..
How would I accomplish that? The filtering part on the mainblog and the showing of only that category?
I did it a while ago with dotclear (it’s similar to WP but developed by French people), it was not hard to do it, let me look through my files (it was 5 years ago ^^), I’ll get back to you 🙂
Ok, so until I find my files, I looked a bit through the WP docs, and this article will be helpful :
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop (read the Exclude Posts From Some Category )
As well as this :
http://perishablepress.com/press/2007/08/06/super-loop-exclude-specific-categories-and-display-any-number-of-posts/
You will have to use template pages to achieve that. You’ll need to use the “home” feature, as well as a template page for the new category you’ll be creating.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
With these articles, you can get a head start.
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Wow thanks for all the help and thanks for your time! This is very useful! I’ll tell you how it works out!
Ok, so I found the solution to exclude your new category from your main blog, it’s really easy, you can check it here :
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168940?replies=2
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Soder
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Yep that part was really easy, now I pretty much need to do the same thing but inverted 😉
You create a page template based on your index file, and instead of the loop to exclude one category, you tell it to display one category. Sorry, I didn’t find what I was looking for, and if I give you dotclear code, it won’t work with wordpress.
<?php query_posts('cat=ID&showposts='.get_option('posts_per_page')); ?>
You need to replace ID by your new category ID number.
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Hm can I have more than one page template? Since I have “normal” pages and this special one?
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Soder
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Nevermind, found it! Thanks!
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It works superb now!
If anyone else are looking for a similar solution here’s what I did:
Added
<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-ID'); ?>
to index.html before the loop, (ID = the category ID)
this prevents all posts with that category ID to show in the main blog.
I created the page template with essentially the same code as the one in index.html but the above code changed to
<?php query_posts("cat=ID"); ?>
which shows all posts with that category id.
pretty easy solution if I may say so 🙂
Thank you both for this info. Is there an easy way to tie this concept in to a main menu (navigation) item? I would like users to be able to click on one of my main navigation links at the top of the site and be routed to a page that displays posts only related to that topic (category). Thanks!
now that you are familiar with includes and excludes…
you can mess with your navigation using wp_list_pages
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages
and wp_list_categories
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories
includes and excludes work there too
