Calling WordPress Experts

[NobleSavage]

I'd like to be able to make some posts that appear on (and only on) a separate page. What would be the best way to set this up?

If the "page" acted like a category, but the posts never showed up on the index page that would work.

Any ideas?

[walrus]

I'm almost afraid to answer this cause I feel I must be missing something. Aren't you talking about creating a page? In which case, from your dashboard you click on Write and the Write Page. The link to the page will now only show up on your sidebar.

Did I miss something?

[NobleSavage]

Originally Posted by walrus

I'm almost afraid to answer this cause I feel I must be missing something. Aren't you talking about creating a page? In which case, from your dashboard you click on Write and the Write Page. The link to the page will now only show up on your sidebar.

Did I miss something?

I want to be able to write posts that will then appear on that page and not apear on the index.

Does that make sense?

[walrus]

Right, you mean something like this page. Which shows up nowhere as a part of my blog posts but is created within WP.

If so...do Write Page.

[NobleSavage]

Originally Posted by walrus

Right, you mean something like this page. Which shows up nowhere as a part of my blog posts but is created within WP.

If so...do Write Page.

Exactally, but I want to be able to make multiple posts at different times to the same page and have them que up on the page as they would on the index.

So it would look like a "category page": Ex: http://surfcuties.com/category/bikini-babe/

[walrus]

Can't help then, I know of no way of doing that....or should I say I know of no plugin that would do it.

[NobleSavage]

Originally Posted by walrus

Can't help then, I know of no way of doing that....or should I say I know of no plugin that would do it.

I'm thinking abut making a category "site reviews" and then adding a litte php code to the post function on the index page: If category then exit...

I haven't really looked at any of the WP code yet so if anyone knows why this would be a BAD idea let me know.

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by NobleSavage

I haven't really looked at any of the WP code yet so if anyone knows why this would be a BAD idea let me know.

Any time you do a custom job you have to remember what you did, where, and why before doing an upgrade because an upgrade will potentially wipe out that customized feature.

If you do, just make good notes.

[walrus]

It sounds like you sort of want to have two blogs a main one and a secondary. With the secondary only accessible from a link on your main page. Why not create a new blog, in a subdirectory, and only link to it from your main blog.

Or, conversly, you could add the RSS feed from the above blog to a page on your main page. Then you would want to hide the secondary blog behind a robots.txt.

Or look at something like the multiply plugin, which would allow you to run the blogs from the same admin panel. Haven't checked it out but if it uses the same database, then you could use the same template and it wouldn't look like you did anything more than change pages.

[jayeff]

It's not difficult...

Assuming the ID of the category in question was 11, then you create a template for it naming it as category-11.php

In that template you preface "The Loop" with:

<?php query_posts('category_name=CATNAME&showposts=20'); ?>

...replacing CATNAME with the name of the category and the showposts parameter to suit yourself.

If you don't want those articles showing up on the main page, put this ahead of "The Loop" on the main template:

<?php if (is_home()) { query_posts('cat=-11'); } ?>

And should you not want this category to appear in the links, use this in the sidebar:

<?php wp_list_cats('exclude=11'); ?>

[NobleSavage]

Originally Posted by jayeff

It's not difficult...

Assuming the ID of the category in question was 11, then you create a template for it naming it as category-11.php

In that template you preface "The Loop" with:

<?php query_posts('category_name=CATNAME&showposts=20'); ?>

...replacing CATNAME with the name of the category and the showposts parameter to suit yourself.

If you don't want those articles showing up on the main page, put this ahead of "The Loop" on the main template:

<?php if (is_home()) { query_posts('cat=-11'); } ?>

And should you not want this category to appear in the links, use this in the sidebar:

<?php wp_list_cats('exclude=11'); ?>

Perfect! Thanks for saving me the time on figuring that out.