Posting on pages?

  • I have a feature on my blog called Floss Aid, in the right sidebar, where I recommend music, movies, and books. I’m trying to set up an archive of these recommendations and did the following.

    – Created a main archive Page, with links to subpages for the three types of recommendations: music, movies, books.
    – Added a link to the sidebar to get to the main archive page

    However, after I had this all set up, I realized that I’ll not be able to link to specific recommendations in the archives, and will only be able to provide a link to the subpage where it lives, causing the reader to have to scroll and search for it.

    Now, if I could only add posts to the subpages…

    Is this possible and I’m just not seeing how to do it in the Dashboard?

    Is there a better way to set up this kind of an archive that would allow me to link to specific archived recommendations?

    I don’t write accompanying posts in the blog for these recommendations.

    Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter transcendentalfloss

    (@transcendentalfloss)

    p.s. Sorry, forgot to mention, we have not switched yet to WP 2.0, still using 1.5.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter transcendentalfloss

    (@transcendentalfloss)

    Bump!

    Just don’t want this thread to get knocked down too far before I at least get some suggestions.

    Thanks.

    Don’t bump after an hour because all the helpers are allergic to it.

    Thread Starter transcendentalfloss

    (@transcendentalfloss)

    Sorry, truly. I just read the rules, it’s like the second item, and I feel silly.

    I’ll shut up now.

    Thread Starter transcendentalfloss

    (@transcendentalfloss)

    Well, I resolved this one myself. Learned about HTML anchors in the process.

    Sorry, again, about the bump. I will be more patient next time. This definitely seems like a great resource and I appreciate how much help the volunteers offer people.

    Would you care sharing what you did? It seems to be a recurring request to “force” WP to do un-natural things…:) like displaying posts on Pages.

    I wasn’t real clear on what Transc wanted in the first place, but it sounds now that he needed the anchor and figured that out.

    As for posts in pages, I do that all the time. I create a special page template and include the code below in it. the include is actually a page that holds the intro to the page, and then I specifiy the specific category I want listed in the page. Or I can leave out the include page, and just type in the page I’ve created that uses the template.

    Don’t know if this is what you were asking, moshu, but there it is.

    <div class=”post”>
    <?php include_page (’18’, TRUE); ?>
    <br><br>
    </div>
    <?php query_posts(‘cat=8&orderby=post_date’); ?>
    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php previous_post(); ?> <?php next_post(); ?>

    <div class=”post”>
    <h3 class=”storytitle”>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
    <div class=”storycontent”>
    <?php $more = false; the_content(‘Read More…’); ?>
    </div>

    </div>

    <?php endwhile; else: ?>
    <?php _e(‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>

    <?php posts_nav_link(‘ — ‘, __(‘« Previous Page’), __(‘Next Page »’)); ?>

    Instead of having my categories listed on my sidebar – I want to know if since my pages are listed at the top if a page could listed a specific category.

    Or if I can have my main page list only a certain category instead.

    Nevermind, I’m just going to modify my header file and manually create my page links and add the category link…… good thinkin’ eh?

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