Is this possible with WordPress?

  • I haven’t developed a site in WordPress in awhile, and I’m not sure if this is something I can do or not, or really where to begin. So if someone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

    I am basically going to be creating a news site based on a regularly released program (video and/or audio & transcripts). I have figured that I would use categories of posts to organize first, each program, and then have sub-categories for each release date. Each program will have an overall post, and then subsequent segments that are excerpts from the overall program. In my design, I have distinguished the look of the overall program post and all of the subsequent segments. What would be the easiest way to set something like this up where the overall post is showing before all of the segments. I realize that I could hard-code this in the category.php template, but that is not very user-friendly for my client.

    Here’s a link of my design so you can see what I mean: https://kmdgideas.com/wordpress.jpg

    I also need to add additional links to the meta-data for audio, video, and photo slideshows. I’m thinking I can do this with custom fields and just providing a link to these items? But I will most likely need to style these more than just the meta data item and meta data key. Can I set it up so there is a template for the way the metadata is displayed i.e. you paste a URL and it will fill it into html for a link?

    Also, is there a module for photo slideshows?

    I’ll also continue to do research on my end, but if anyone has done something like this I would appreciate it.

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  • The easiest way would be with a set of “hidden” categories. So you’d have a “parent” category and “child” categories. You’d hard-code in the category.php template to ignore these and hard-code any category lists to exclude them as well. Then you can use them in your loop to pick a post with categories x and “parent” first and then list all posts with categories x and “child” in some particular order after that.

    Basically, it’s a form of sorting using hidden fields. Just make sure you keep track of the category slug of your hidden categories … the category ids will likely change if you install the theme on a different server, but you can always retrieve the new ids if you know the slugs.

    Thread Starter ingero

    (@ingero)

    Oh okay, so the parent category just has the overall post in it, and the sub-category would contain all of the excerpts. Thanks so much for your help!

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