Boxes ... and grouping them

[jimanderson 0]

I need some help understanding Boxes and the limitations of placing them on pages and mixing them together. I have a bunch of boxes created. Three major groups. Quotes Books Affirmations And about 30 Box Sets that overlap the above 3 categories. Abundance Forgiveness Compassion Abundance etc .... My main questions are ... 1. If I have a page with a Box Set=Abundance then I will get all the Quotes, Books, and Affirmations from all the boxes created? Is there a way to separate this out? Or, do I need to created Box Sets as follows? Quotes-Abudance Books-Abudance Affirm-Abudance 2. Let's say I want to do the opposite of Questions 1 and mix them. If I do mix the boxes on a page (Quotes, Books, Affirmations) ... is there a way to separate them with labels or paragraphs? Here is a link to my dilemma. http://empoweringwisdom.com/abundance/ thanks.

[Jenny 33]

If you select a box set, then you will any boxes from that set will be posted. If you are trying to be more selective, then you should make more sets, or try to use a parent-child configuration. I don't see, and can't think of, a way to label them. The only thing I can think of is to use Soapboxes instead. They have the ability to use titles/headings.

[jimanderson 0]

NOt sure what is meant by parent -child configuration in this situation. Can you explain this further? Will this accomplish what I am looking to do?

[Rob 547]

I think Jenny was referring to page organization more so than box-sets. Essentially, if you go to a page you created for Quotes, for an example... and scroll down, you should see an option in the Pagelines Meta Settings for Box Settings. There, you get to select the box set you created for Quotes. You may also set how many Columns you have for this particular page as well as the location of any icon you may include. Save the page, but also make sure the proper template was created. When you go to create a page for Books, you pick the box set for books and do all the other things mentioned above... and one page for each box set. In your menu navigation, you just create menus that cope with the pages created by section organization. For example... if your Quotes page had some particular quotes by famous people, you could create a child page with Quotes as parent. The child page might be quotes from Mark Twain so you call that page Mark Twain Quotes and on the right hand side of your editing screen, above the place where you select the template, you can select a parent... in this case Quotes. I don't know if you can have more than one box set on a page, but you can have boxes AND soapboxes to my knowledge. Unfortunately, I barely use boxes on my site.

[Rob 547]

There are plugins, btw, that handle quotations much nicer than stuffing them into confined boxes. One I use is called Quotes Collection. There are also plugins that let you place books, and other things you're trying to include on your site in different, perhaps nicer ways for you to manage. Have you considered that? Browse and search http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins to find them. Just make sure they're current.

[Jenny 33]

What I meant is that you can create parent/child relationship within box sets. For example, if you have a parent box set called "food", you can have a child of that box set called "pizza" and other called "cookies".