Link to page from Front page post

The Jokes actually links to a category (3), not a single post. If you post more items in category 3, they will show up when you click the link.

Thanks for reply. Trouble is I don’t want the jokes to appear on the front page as well (as the test one does at present under ‘latest story’). I want them to appear only when you clink the jokes link. Any ideas?

Thanks for quick response.

I think you can do what you want by adding a line in index.php just ahead of the query_posts call:

$args['cat'] .= ($args['cat']) ? ',-3' : '-3';
query_posts($args);

Thanks ,that sort of worked. It got the jokes onto the jokes section & away from the front page. Trouble is, when I try to post regular (ie non-joke) items on the front page it still puts them in the Jokes section.

Do I have to take out the index.php code you kindly provided every time I want to make a front page post? seems a bit weird….

Thx for all your help,

TC

If you duplicate the current category template as category-jokes.php (or category-3.php), this should allow the listings to only show jokes. Or am I getting the wrong idea of what you are after?

J

I am confused. The code I gave for index.php should not interfere with non-joke posts. It should only keep category 3 posts from appearing on the page.

When I look at your site, it appears to be working.

Sorry for confusion vtxyzzy.

Every time I add a new post intended for the front page now it only appears in the Jokes section, even though the Jokes category box is not ticked when I do it. If you look at last 3 items in jokes section they are all test posts meant for the front page that don’t appear there.

Thanks for ongoing advice, much apprec.

I don’t know what to say. Every one of those posts says ‘Posted in Jokes.’

Take the code out and see if they still appear under Jokes.

I took the code out and posted a new one (test 5 Sept 2010). It appears in both jokes and front page with or without the jokes category ticked.

The Category tickbox for Jokes in Edit Post doesn’t seem to work – every time I untick it and update, it just automatically ticks it again. I think this may be root cause of my problem.

I would look for ‘add_filter’ somewhere in the theme code, probably functions.php, or maybe a plugin that is setting that category.

No plugins activated at all; cannot find add_filter in the code, though admittedly there is alot of code to look through. What do I do with it if I find it?

If you can determine that it is adding the Jokes category, comment out the add_filter line.

If you haven’t already done so, switch to the default theme to see if it is due to your theme.