In reply to: Multiple Post Pages, Content by Category

#39421

Ah, found it! I didn’t remember that using shortcodes either had to be built or placed by a plugin. I found the Display Posts Shortcode that does exactly what I need.

Thanks for the tips. They have helped me re-acquaint myself with WP and I do very much like the Graphene theme.

Thanks again,

Andrew

In reply to: Multiple Post Pages, Content by Category

#39420

I used to work with WP quite awhile back. Custom Menus will get me there if I absolutely have to use them. But here are the disadvantages:

• If I add a category then I need to manually update two custom menus, one for the menu bar and a second for the widget ‘page’ navigation.
• Sticky posts don’t work when used this way. Stickies only display at the top of regular ‘post’ pages (unless there is something else I’m forgetting). If I want ‘static’ content at the top of my pages, which I do, then after every post I would have to navigate to every post I want to be a sticky for that category and give it a date/time stamp that is more current than the last post.
• Even with manipulating dates on certain posts so that they remain at the top of a given category page, they still look like posts. I would rather they look like static text.

So I could use Custom Menus, but they really won’t do what I want; especially in the form of appearance (static text at the top of a page).

I was thinking there was a simple way to either make template page or add a shortcode to a static page that would allow posts with defined category(ies) &/or tag(s) to be displayed on the page. But for the life of me I’m not finding how to do it.

Thanks again,

Andrew

In reply to: Multiple Post Pages, Content by Category

#39418

Ah, yes, this I know about. It is not at all what I need to accomplish. My apologies for not describing my need clearly. Let me try again to describe what I’m trying to accomplish.

For example, I have the following five pages in my menu: Home, This, That, Other, About. Home and About are static pages. This, That, and Other I would like to be dynamic. Also, “That” has children: Red and Blue. Red has a children Pink and Orange. Red, Blue, Pink, and Orange I also need to be dynamic.

When I look at my pages widget then I see the following:

Home

This

That

-Red

–Pink

–Orange

-Blue

About

When a site visitor navigates to the “Orange” page, I need them to see any post I’ve made that has the Category of Orange. If I assign a post the categories of “This” and “Pink” then I need anyone that navigates to the “This” page or the “Pink” page to see the post.

I do not know how to accomplish this.

Thanks again,

Andrew

In reply to: Multiple Post Pages, Content by Category

#39416

Okay. I’m not getting it.

I see where I can copy and modify my category.php file. I’ve created category-this.php, category-that.php, and category-other.php files. (Or does it need to be the ID number, such as category-1.php, category-2.php, and category-3.php? If so, where do I find the ID number other than looking into the database?)

Anyway, when I go to create a new page for the site, how do I indicate this new template is to be used? I do not see it in the list of templates that can be selected.

I’d appreciate any help on what I’m missing.

Thanks,

Andrew

In reply to: Multiple Post Pages, Content by Category

#39415

Thank you. I will search for this feature. I didn’t realize you could archive posts to different pages.

Thanks again,

Andrew