Ruth at Virtual Balance

I’m glad I found you – you obviously know what the “title attribute” and the “menu label” do. I haven’t been able to find out on the “All in One SEO” site.
What are they for and what should we be putting in there?

Just a footnote to this – the main “blog” page, which you don’t show on your menus, should be no-indexed or it’ll turn up on search results.

I see – this must be a Weaver thing. I’m using its facility to create a second custom menu, not the widget. I’ll see what Bruce’s website says.
Thanks!

@stu – your website looks good and I can see it’s the same idea as mine. How did you make it say “Case File Categories” instead of the standard category archive title?

@flaog – got a weird email from WordPress quoting a post from you but it doesn’t appear to be where it should be.

Anyway, you wanted to know how I got the two blog pages on my site at https://www.consultyorkshire.com

It finally turned out to be quite easy using the theme Weaver which has the option to create a page-with-posts. To get 2 blog pages, you need to have 3 of these pages-with-posts. Call them P-w-P 1, P-w-P 2 and P-w-P 3.

P-w-P 1 behaves normally and shows all your posts and this is the page that you specify in the settings as your “blog” page. The trick is that you make a custom menu and don’t include this page so it isn’t visible.

Then you want to direct one lot of posts to P-w-P 2 and one set to P-w-P 3. In Weaver, this is also quite simple to do. P-w-P 2 can be set TO display Category X and P-w-P 3 can be set to NOT display Category X.

P-w-P 2 and/or P-w-P 3 can be displayed on your custom menu, where it will look and behave like a normal blog page as far as I can see.

The only problem now for me is that I want complete control over P-w-P 2 and I want other members of my consortium to be free to post what they like on P-w-P 3. To do this, I’ve got a plug-in called Restrict Categories which allows only the Webmaster to access Category X.

You can see the result of all this on my site https://www.consultyorkshire.com
Bear in mind it’s a work in progress, so it looks quite bare at the moment!

The only page of posts you can see is called “Articles” and it corresponds to P-w-P 3 above. It’s on the main menu along with Home, About, etc.

The top menu is a category menu – I don’t know if this is WP standard or a Weaver thing. All the items there are sub-categories of the main category called “| Show Directory”. This is my Category X which controls where posts go.

Hope that explains it and is helpful. If you want me to do it for you, I charge ￡25 an hour (40 Australian dollars). ??

akanichiyoubi, if you’re still around and subscribing to this thread, I have an answer!
It might not be ideal but this is it:
First of all, I’m working with WordPress Weaver themes – I very rarely use any others. I’m making a directory, as I said above, and I want one page for it and one page for a normal blog.
I have a parent category “Directory” which will be on all the posts I do about my members. So one business will be categorised “Directory – social media”, another will be “Directory – accountant” but ALL will have the parent category “Directory”
So now I have 3 “blog” pages. The first is the normal one where everything shows up.
Next is the Directory page which is a “page with posts” and in the tickbox I have said ONLY show the category “directory”. (The parent category includes the sub-cats.)
Then is the Article page (another page-with-posts) where I have said DO NOT show the category “directory”.
Now I put both the Articles and the Directory pages on my custom menu but not the “Blog” page so nobody can see it. I might not even have the Directory page there because I’m using a widget to search within the category so I might decide I don’t want the whole thing showing.
Anybody interested in knowing more, reply to this thread and I’ll contact you direct.

I haven’t read through all of this in detail yet, but I just want to say I understand perfectly what akanichiyoubi wants, and I don’t think it’s that difficult! I think the confusion might be in the use of the word “blog” to mean two different things.

I suspect that akanichiyoubi is using WordPress to create a CMS website, not a “blog” in the traditional sense. On his website he wants a page of news articles, perhaps, which will be events and promotions from his business, and then he wants a “blog”, i.e. a sort of diary or journal or something like a newspaper column in which he can write more thoughtful articles about whatever he wants.

Another possibility is that you have a membership site where every member has their own blog page to promote their own business, so you could have a very large number of “blogs” on one site.

I want to make two blog pages, one which will be for articles in the normal way. The other one will have a large number of “posts” which won’t actually be posts as such – they will be the details of all my members’ businesses. I’m using posts instead of pages because I need to have categories and tags, and so I can’t use the idea of having categories as someone has suggested (and I really don’t understand the logic of that at all)

So now let me read through all this and see if any of it is helpful!

I’m using WebHostingUK who have been an excellent host up until now and I don’t want to leave them over this phpmail problem. I also make websites for other people and I have always recommended WHUK but I don’t want to have to put in a special plug-in or discontinue using Contact Form 7.
I don’t understand the technicalities enough to know the difference between these kinds of mail but I think it’s the mail()
that’s the problem so maybe Contact Form 7 will be affected. I’m going to ask WHUK and will post their reply here.

It should be marked as resolved, I changed it earlier.It’s showing as resolved on my screen. At the top, in the topic title it should say [resolved] drop-down menu for sub-pages (12 posts)
well, obviously it says 13 posts now!

Thank you! I’ve made the connection on LinkedIn as well.

@vidya, what a beautiful site! I’ve put a link on my website as an example of what can be done with WordPress and I’ve sent a link also to my grandson, who’s a mathematical genius and might have some hope of understanding the actual content of your site!

Well, you won’t believe this! It’s so simple – it’s done by drag-and-drop. You just add all the menu items you want, then drag the sub-menu items a little to the right to where you want them and there you are. Couldn’t be easier. Thanks for your help – if I hadn’t got your response I might have just given up trying to figure it out!

Thanks for trying! I might make a custom menu and then see what happens.

Thanks for the suggestion but I already tried that. It just adds the page(s) to the top (Main) menu, like this:

Home about services startup along the top when I want it to be

Home about services
– startup

Like that

Well, I tried it and it worked! It needed a bit of fiddling about, but well worth it. Thank you so much and here’s a link to see what is looks like: https://mypaperwork.co.uk/business-basics/time/