Basic organizing of a partly nonblog site

  • Hi there,

    i am going to use wp for my first time (worked a bit with textpattern before) and have to set up a given design with it.

    its a personal site with things like a gallery, download section, linklist, 2-3 blogstyle sub-pages and so on.

    so my very first question is: how do i organize this best?

    i have a given navigation with this design, so i have use a sidebar menu which is not divided in different things like pages and categories.

    imagine a list like this, which represents the sidebars menu:

    – Pictures
    – Downloads
    – Special Pictures 1
    – Blogstyle Category 1
    – Linklist
    – Blogstyle Category 2
    – Other

    this i have to set up.

    so, well, this wouldnt be hard to create with just using direct links manually. but theres a given order to make it possible to the owner to easily add new pages/categories. so i have to use a loop to create this sub menu. but i have no idea how to solve this halfway elegant.

    i tried to set it up with just using Pages, but this wont work, since a page does not contain an option to list posts of a given category, does it?

    well… maybe someone could answer this first, so i can think farther and ask the next few questions ??

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  • No, Pages don’t have categories. On the other hand Pages can have multiple sub-Pages, and that can serve as a kind of grouping for sibling Pages under their parent.

    In the sidebar can be combined manual and generated menu items, e.g. the category list or the Pages list is generated by Template_Tags.

    Everything what you described is pretty much doable, you just have to become a bit familiar with WP in order to understand its working, and you’ll be fine.

    Thread Starter akbbla

    (@akbbla)

    well… but how would _you_ try to solve this? i dont get the clue atm

    In the sidebar can be combined manual and generated menu items, e.g. the category list or the Pages list is generated by Template_Tags.

    uhm… how? i of course know the meaning of tags and so on, but is there a combination of tags i dont see yet? how can one combine it? ??

    For example:
    - Pictures <-- manual=hardcoded link
    - Downloads <-- manual=hardcoded link
    - Special Pictures 1 <-- manual (if not a spec. cat.)
    - Blogstyle Category 1 <-- blog category
    - Blogstyle Category 2 <-- blog categ. generated by template tag
    - Linklist <-- generated by template tag
    - Other <-- what is other?

    p.s. don’t us BB code, just the old plain html tags here…

    Thread Starter akbbla

    (@akbbla)

    yep, i noticed that @ BB code and changed it.

    @topic: wouldnt this mean i have to manually create the sidebar at least? this is what i mean. i would have to insert a link to the categories manually. but i need the sidebar to be advancable by wordpress by just creating a new page and/or category.

    In every “normnal” theme there is a sidebar. See my anatomy of a theme: https://www.transycan.net/abc/visual_anat.html

    The category list is generated by WP through this template tag: Template_Tags/wp_list_cats
    Pages are listed by puttin this template tag in the sidebar: Template_Tags/wp_list_pages

    Wouldn’t be easier if you get a little bit familiar with WP and if you have specific questions – as opposed to theoretic questions – we will answer those?

    Good start: Getting_Started_with_WordPress

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