Categories: Can I have 1 cat on a unique page?

  • Hi,
    I have 3 friends who will post to my site. They will have their own category:
    For example:
    John
    Lee
    Chris.
    Now I would like each of these guys to have their own independent page like having their own column.
    Is their a way to have just one category on a page?
    If so I want just the newest story there in full with all previous posts listed as ‘titles below the main post.
    Can this be done?
    Thanaks

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  • Yes it can be done. They key is to just show that category when you load the page. I’m not sure on the exact details, but the basic idea consists of modifying the code on each of those pages so that it shows only the articles in that category. A good place to start your research would be to look at how the url’s are formed when you choose a specific category in the generic “from the factory” index page.
    I’m sure other’s can give you more of the details

    Anonymous
    Start your research here & here , I was wondering this a while back myself it involves copying and renaming your index.php file and then telling it “not” to show certain categories, it’s a good “temporary” solution since nobody feels the need for WP to have a static page feature, but after a while I got tired of manually updating changes.

    mtanner,
    You presume much.
    Craig.

    Sorry C,
    Wasn’t trying to hurt anybody, just from what I read, it seems a static page feature isn’t high on any list. If I’m wrong, excuse me, it’s been known to happen.

    mtanner,
    Nobody was hurt, no apologies necessary. I understand your frustration–there are many things which each of us holds near and dear. This is especially true when we are in the middle of working on a site and then we hit a wall; “Why don’t they have this?” we ask. It almost seems to be a personal thing.
    There is a great community developing here, of which you and I and everyone else are valued members. Your ideas, feedback, and constructive criticisms are most welcome.
    BTW, I’ve been wrong plenty of times. Do a search on these forums with this term: < slaps forehead > and you’ll see for yourself! ??
    Craig.

    You can also simply set them each as categories, and have the category links take you to their ‘sub-sites’… If you needed to, you could then customize your ‘front page’, that is a page with no category sent in the URL, to have a simplified layout and links to their categories. You can also specifically filter out their posts from the view if NOT in a per-category URL or per-post URL.
    =d
    https://www.chait.net

    Kitta is upgrading her WordPress at this time – https://www.kitta.net/ – but I noticed the index.php seemed to be followed by “?=blabla.html” some days back when the site was mentioned in the WP Dev Blog for Bloggies award. It might be something of a hack that applies to calling the static page?
    “Blog will brb….
    I’m upgrading to the latest wordpress version, go check out the forum while I sort everything out.”
    – from kitta.net

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