July 17, 201016 yr I am fairly new into Wordpress and have created my own blog for my site. However i have been asked by a client to create another Wordpress CMS site, just wondering if i am going about things correctly here: - Firstly the way of thinking is based on this link here > http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/ What i want to do is: 1. Have a navigation menu to the left sidebar that flies out with sub categories. 2. When you click on the sub category ie: Hats it takes you to a page that lists all the different businesses that provide hats! Each business will have a "read more" link which will then take the to a full page of info on their business. 3. The full page will provide images, full description, comments and ratings etc. Now my question is:... In Wordpress for step 2 above, is it best to create 'posts' for each different Hat business rather than putting it all in 'pages' and just doing it by html/css. I want it to look like: http://www.5starweddingdirectory.com/Category/luxury_wedding_accessories/designer_wedding_hats But the problem is all the blog posts go to the home page. I want to be able to categorise them and go to their own page NOT home page. If you have 5 posts on Hats they appear in hats.php or 6 posts for cakes they go in cakes.php etc For example, Category = Accessories sub-categories for Accessories includes = Hats, Shoes, Makeup, Hair User Selects Hats = this will only bring up posts categorised in 'Hats' only...will list all business in Hats. User clicks 'read more' on one of the Hats businesses and full review appears Kind of like how my blog is working but categorising all sub categories and not making all posts appear on home page but thier own individual pages, ie: domain.com/accessories/hats domain.com/accessories/shoes domain.com/accessories/makeup There will be loads of main categories and within each category there will be lots of sub categories.? Im probably making no sense at all here! Thanks
July 17, 201016 yr So you're trying to build a directory? I suggest not using a blogging tool and use a directory indexing script like http://www.esyndicat.com Edited July 17, 201016 yr by BlueDreamer
July 17, 201016 yr Author Yes, very similar to the wedding link provided. Is this something that they would have used to create their website? How easy is customisation of the site and the learning curve of the software? Is it all css/html based? Whats the availability of the templates and plugins? Ideally id like to use Wordpress as im familiar with it. thanks mate
July 17, 201016 yr Isn't this how Wordpress works anyway? The way I understand the problem you've written, is the way Wordpress automatically categorises things. If you don't want the posts on the homepage, create a 'homepage' template file with some custom WP queries. Create a new page which uses this template and leave it blank (or add content if you don't do any WP queries), then set it as the homepage in WP settings.
July 17, 201016 yr Author Yeah i dont want the homepage to show any posts. I want the sub categories to be posts but not sure how to get each sub category to its own page, eg: hats sub category on /hats but using posts for each hat business in the list as opposed to using pages and using the text editor to just do it using html/css. its getting the posts to go to different pages ie: All Hat posts going to hats.php and all cake posts going to cakes.php. So its getting all the sub category posts going to their own page My php knowledge aint great so not sure what queries and templates id have to create to achieve this
July 18, 201016 yr Author By the sounds of it, what i want... WordPress can not do it! http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posting-on-different-pages Hats has ie: 6 different sub categories (which will be 6 posts on the Hat.php file) Shoes has ie: 4 different sub categories (which will be 4 posts on the cakes.php file) and so on... Seems like WordPress can not do this??? Looks like i will have to use Pages and code the html/css for each business listing and then when you click Read More... It takes you to a 'post' on that paticular business in the list. But then if you use posts is it possible to make sure the posts dont go to any pages, ie: disable posts going to the home page once submitted (or any page full stop) and just be able to provide a hyperlink to the posts individually? OR... I look into what BlueDreamer said???? I get sooooo stressed far too easy!!! Once i know what im doing im alright then lol, so any help and advise hear would be great!
July 18, 201016 yr Can you not just do this: Blog -> Categories -> Sub Categories -> Posts / Items Clicking on a category will list the subcategories, in the archive format.
July 18, 201016 yr Just out of interest... why has everyone overlooked Bluedreamer's post? As he said, if you want to build a directory, use a directory script, don't try to hack a blogging script to do it for you. Short answer, yes WP can do that for you. But why would you want too instead of using a ready made bit of script? Good luck
July 18, 201016 yr Author Can you not just do this: Blog -> Categories -> Sub Categories -> Posts / Items Clicking on a category will list the subcategories, in the archive format. Hi, I have replicated this in the admin area. Category = Accessories Sub Categories = Hats Posts = Hats business 1, hat business 2, hat business 3 etc. IN subcategory Hats. Now if i wanted to do this for lots of other categories and replicate the above, how do i get this working on the front end and each category with all its posts on its own page? Sorry for being dumb here, bare with me. ...I was looking at using Wordpress to learn more on it and that i have basic knowledge of it, as opposed to learning something totally different.
July 18, 201016 yr If you go to your subcategory on your Wordpress site, all the posts will be listed...?
July 18, 201016 yr Author Here is the link: - http://www.pbwebdesign-warrington.co.uk/kelly/ What i am after is home page a static html page (no posts here). Click on Directory --> Accessories --> Hats --> This should list all the Hat subcategoies that are appearing on the home page. Then i need the same setup for all the different sub categories in the Accessories page. So on the home page the shoes posts will need to be in Accessories > Shoes > Shoe businesses listed HERE Accessories > Hats> HERE businesses listed HERE Then you click on 'Read More' then this takes you to the full post of that particular business. Its just categorising all the posts into their own sections? If you get me?
July 18, 201016 yr To me, it sounds like you're describing categories. You have multiple posts in 'hats' so clicking on 'hats' shows all the posts/items filed in 'hats'. Done. To put 'hats' under 'accessories' make a category called 'accessories' and give 'hats' the 'accessories' parent.
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