• There is a page of my site I am trying to set up as an FAQ, with a category devoted to FAQ and each post a question. I want the FAQ page to display a list of the posts in a FAQ category. I want the FAQ page to be a page rather than an archive because I want it to have full comment functionality, including RSS.

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  • create a category specific page then.
    category_Templates
    Template_Hierarchy

    Thread Starter joelwalsh

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    I cannot find anything there about creating a category specific page. Could you please provide a more exact link? Do you mean that I set up a template with the category loop in it and set the page to use that template???

    I hope you’re not just saying that I should create a separate category **template** for that category, because that would solve my problem not at all: you can’t make comments on a category.

    a category devoted to FAQ and each post a question

    According to your initial question miklb gave you the correct answer.
    You can’t really mix Pages and posts. You can have a “Page” template like archives.php that will display a list of monthly and category archive links – by default, but that’s not commentable either. By different plugins like NiceArchives, CleanArchives you can achieve a list of posts – but you cannot comment on that page as well as you cannot on a category archive. Comments’ IDs are tied to posts’ IDs.

    Thread Starter joelwalsh

    (@joelwalsh)

    Of course you can make comments on pages (I don’t care about the broader semantic implications of this, I just mean that you have a comments form on the page). That’s why there’s a toggle for enabling comments on a page on the manage pages area of the admin. It’s been that way since 1.5. Just look at this page on my site: https://upmarketnewsletters.com/about

    And yes, of course you can list all the posts in a specific category on a page; with php you can do whatever you want in terms of calling information out of a database. It’s just a matter of the right code to get it there. It may not be part of the default setup, but there it is. Thanks to PHP, WordPress is extensible beyond being a simple blog.

    Please, I know that a large part of the traffic to this board comes from people who like the feeling of knowing more than other people, but unless you do actually have an answer or constructive idea to go with your attitude, don’t post. Let people who are interested in extending the possibilities of WordPress as a publishing platform communicate with each other without interference.

    Thread Starter joelwalsh

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