Category (Posts) Landing Page

[sjtryon 0]

Apologies if I am missing this in the docs - just point me to it. There are lots of tutorials about working with the "trees", but nothing showing the "forest", so perhaps I am just missing the big picture view on this. I want to create a menu item that shows the most recent entries in a particular category. I would like that dynamic page to show a feature section related to that category. A) Is this possible and how? When I add a new post, in addition to assigning it to a category (or more), am I also able to add content that will automatically be used as content in a feature about that post? Thanks very much for any assistance! Steven

[cmunns 16]

You can create a category menu item if you create a custom navigation through WP Appearance - Menus Adding a feature section to that category would be trickier, but there are plans to handle that better in future updates.

[Sourena 2]

When I add a new post, in addition to assigning it to a category (or more), am I also able to add content that will automatically be used as content in a feature about that post?

If you mean something other than the post's excerpt you have to use a Custom Filed. You can show the custom filed using certain plugins. It depends where you want to show the post and how.

[sjtryon 0]

Bummer. How about from the other direction: Is there a way to have posts from a particular category appear on a Feature page rather than just static content I post to that page?

[Guest Guest]

Again, what you're asking is sadly a bit of a setback of Wordpress in general, not so much Pagelines and PlatformPro. Again, future updates will help handle this better, but for now without writing essentially a custom page template there isn't a whole lot that can be done that I know of.

[runesmistadcom 0]

I am also looking for an archive page, for example for a given category - something that should not be difficult. IS it not just a page template that loops through categories, and shows posts under that category - or with some other starting point in a hierarchy of posts. Posts by a certain author for example. This should be straight forward? But how to separate category page from front page, they are both "posts" pages?

[Sourena 2]

Actually there is a solution for that without writing a custom page template. But you need to use a few plugins. Here is the solution: 1. Add "Universal Sidebar" to your "Page Content area" (under Layout Editor, under PlatformPro Theme Options). 2. Install Query Posts Widget Plugin. Now go to Widgets and add that to your "Universal Sidebar". 3. Install Widget logic Plugin. Using that only show this widget on your homepage. There are other plugins to do this job, but this one is my favorite. * Another solution would be using a plugin like Section Widget in combination of another plugin to show the posts from your blog. But describing that here would be too much and probably more confusing. If you like take a look at Section Widget page on "WordPress.org" to get more details on that. You can use that widget instead of "Query Posts" widget.

[bryan-hadaway 3]

Amazing Sourena. Thanks, Bryan

[runesmistadcom 0]

If you want a category-listings page, you could also make a template that lists out latest posts from a given category ID, and then a section that calls that template. Enable that template in your "page content area". You can then give a page where you want this list to appear and give it a custom value "page_cat" and then you can query this, and display your list of latest posts from this category on any page with this custom value. It is not elegant, but it works, and you can customize without coding when you edit content.

[bryan-hadaway 3]

Hey Rune, first karma point. Thanks for helping out. Thanks, Bryan

[mickradford 0]

Hey, just a quick footnote in case anyone else happened to have this issue. I used Sourena's most excellent method (kudos) and it worked beautifully. Later I began rearranging my sidebars and for the life of me I could not get it to function again. I found that changing the widget logic to

is_front_page() 

got it working again. thanks!