Okay, I’ll give you an example from installing a clean WordPress installation to selecting categories that are only allowed to show the secondary title.
Some of these steps won’t be necessary for you. I’ll add them nonetheless so that you can follow the exact way I did it.
1. Alright, the first thing I did was setting up a typical WordPress installation (screenshot).
2. When the installation is done, I logged into the dashboard and deleted all posts, pages and whatever the standard WordPress installations includes to have a real clean installation (screenshot).
3. Then I went to the menu point Tool > Export (screenshot).
4. Upon clicking WordPress, a window will popup requiring you to download a plugin named WordPress Importer. Hit Install Now (screenshot).
5. As soon as it has been installed, activate it and repeat the step. This time you’ll be directed to a page where there’s a button that allows you to select a file. The file we’re looking for is an XML file that turns your WordPress installation into a full demo website so that we don’t have to waste our time creating posts manually. You can download the file here. Save it as an XML file anywhere and select it in the “Open file” dialoag box (screenshot).
6. Since the posts that come with the XML file are created by different users, WordPress Importer asks you whether it should create these user or if it should assign the posts to an existing user. To make things easier, select your existing admin account as seen in the screenshot. Important: Do not click the checkbox Download and import file attachments. This will not only take a lot longer but is also completely useless for our purpose. Then hit Submit (screenshot).
7. Once you go back to the the Posts menu item, you’ll see a long list of posts with different names, categories, tags and so on. That shows us that the import was successful (screenshot).
8. Next, install the Secondary Title plugin and actiavte it (screenshot).
9. Now we only want the secondary title to be displayed in one specific category. To do that, we navigate to Settings > Secondary Title. It’ll show the default options with everything unchecked, meaning the secondary title will be shown everywhere (if the post has one, of course) (screenshot).
10. Go to the section Categories and select for this example the category arrangements. The number behind it shows that there’s only one post in the category. Do not change any other options of the settings. Just hit Save Changes (screenshot).
11. Now we’re going to enter two the secondary title: One in the post that is inside the arrangements category and one that isn’t. You can filter them out easily as seen on the screenshot (screenshot).
12. Enter a secondary title, for example “This secondary title is supposed to be shown”. After that, click Update and go back to the post overview (screenshot).
13. Now we use the filter to show us a post that is assigned to any other catgory. In this example, I use the category named Markup and set the secondary title to “This secondary title is NOT supposed to be shown”. Update and you’re done (screenshot).
14. Activate the the WordPress default theme Twenty Fifteen if it isn’t activated yet and visit your actual site. On the left sidebar you’ll see a widget with the title CATEGORIES and below a list of all categories (screenshot).
15. Remember, we wanted the secondary title ONLY to be shown in posts that are inside the category arrangements. So, click this category which will direct you to the archive page. If you set everything right, the secondary title is being displayed in front of the standard title (screenshot).
16. Our last step. We want to make sure that categories that haven’t been set on the settings page aren’t showing the secondary title even thoug they have one. For this example, we set a secondary title to the latest post in the Markup category. So go back to the CATEGORIES widget and click Markup. Again, it’ll redirect you to the archive page. The first post is the post that contains a secondary title, and if you’ve set everydone according to this tutorial, it should not be displayed (screenshot).
That’s it already. Excuse the long explanations but I like to tell things in details so that we can minimize any possible misunderstandings.
If this still didn’t work for you, please contact me directly via my email address at kolja.nolte[at].gmail.com and we’ll find a way to fix it.
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