Categories separated into different pages.

  • Hi, thanks for viewing.

    I’m wondering is it possible or bad practice to have posts belonging to one particular category on each page, basically for use as CMS.

    eg.

    the Facilitation page would contain a loop only including posts in the Facilitation category.

    I know pages are only supposed to be static content and the owner can update like a CMS but it doesn’t let them have a blog type timeline on the pages where they can update posts and have them listed down the page, or is there a way of doing this?

    Many thanks

    Frank

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  • If your theme supports custom menus like the twenty eleven theme then you can just add the categories to the menu tree, like this test website, all the menu items are just categories selected in the custom menu screen.

    Screenshot: Admin > Appearance > Menus

    The home page can then be a static page or a latest posts page.

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter frankjkeane

    (@frankjkeane)

    Thanks David,

    so with the custom menu, do the categories listed in the menu bring to pages with just posts that are in that category? Can you set these pages up with different page templates?

    Many thanks

    Frank

    Thread Starter frankjkeane

    (@frankjkeane)

    The link just appeared on your reply, just viewed site, looks like just what im looking for!

    But are these pages that can have different templates? (different headers on each one)

    How would i use the functionality from 2012 and put it into my theme, i am building from scratch.

    Thank you.

    Frank

    Best advice is to try it!

    do the categories listed in the menu bring to pages with just posts that are in that category?

    Yes only posts from the category are returned to the screen.

    Can you set these pages up with different page templates?

    You would not need a page template unless there was something specific for that category, then you would find the category {slug} News would be news

    Open category.php and save it as category-{slug}.php, make any category specific changes.

    News Category page would then be category-news.php

    EDITED:

    But are these pages that can have different templates? (different headers on each one)

    With a little code, this post extending the categories, has different headers per category and much more, the theme in the link you can get from here, that has eight different content layouts, between the two you could do what you want.

    Note: the theme in the link and my website are both twenty eleven child themes!

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter frankjkeane

    (@frankjkeane)

    Ah right, you can set up php template files. Nice one, i’ll give it a go!

    Very Helpful, thank you!

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