Separate Blog Category Page

  • Resolved geraldhommemusic

    (@geraldhommemusic)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    I’m trying to make a page on my wordpress site that will show only the blog posts from a specific category. I’m using the twenty eleven theme, here is my page: https://weareinfluxmusic.com/

    I’m trying to make the “Shows” page display all the blog posts that I post in the shows category, instead of me updating the page everytime I get a new show, in addition to blogging about it. Is it possible to do that keeping the “Shows” link in the same location it is currently?

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  • Yes. That’s possible. You’ll just have to work on a few things to get that working.

    It will take a few steps, but I should be able to guide you through the process. Nice website BTW.

    Currently the way that the pages and categories are ordered are in the default way, such that the category of “Shows” shows up as

    https://weareinfluxmusic.com/?cat=11

    Ideally you want to do the next steps before the site is set up, but there’s nothing like learning as you do it. ??

    – Go to Settings, then Permalinks.
    – Under the Common Settings, you’ll see that it’s set at default. I usually choose “Month and Name”. That way, the category that is chosen, in your case, shows, will be used instead of a random number that is assigned.
    – Save the changes.

    Then you can use a plugin like Page Links To that will allow you to set that page to pull in the post categories that are now tagged with “Shows”.

    Hope that gets you pointed in the right direction.

    Thread Starter geraldhommemusic

    (@geraldhommemusic)

    This worked perfectly! Thank you so much for your help, it works exactly how I want it to now. Yay!

    Hi. Think I missed something. I also want to be able to automatically have my blog post appear in another page. My page is https://www.webshowreviews.com I want to have the current post also appear under the Comedy page. Help!

    webshowreviews, it’s a little bit difficult to understand what you are asking, but I took a look at your website. Right now there’s a contact form on the “Comedy” page.

    I’m not sure if you want the latest current post or have all posts tagged or categorized to show up under “Category”.

    In the case above, he had set certain posts to a certain category in order to get them to show up under a certain page. If that’s the case, follow the instructions above.

    If you want all latest posts to show up at under the “Comedy” tag, then log into the admin and go to -> Settings -> Reading, then switch the front page to a static page, and set posts to the “Comedy” page.

    Save the changes, then take a look at them.

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