Some friends of mine am starting an art blog and am aiming to use WordPress for usability reasons as their PHP/HTML/CSS experience is minimal. However, we are running into a roadblock in that we are finding it difficult to accomplish multi-level navigation within Wordpress: that is; for each WordPress 'page', there must be several 'sub-pages'. For example, each artist page (eg Zac) must have several separate sub-pages: an "About", a "Gallery" (which will be accomplished with a separate WordPress plugin) and a blog sorted by a specific category. An additional road block is presented in the form that each sub-page navigation must be separate from the main navigation: ie, not a drop-down menu, but rather a separate menu located elsewhere on the page.
I've looked around at some WordPress multi-level navigation plugins but haven't found any that adequately meet these needs. Has anyone had the same problem, and if so, how did you work around it? Is there a suitable plugin or will I need to create a separate Page template and then hand-code About/Gallery sections in separate PHP files?
Thanks!
I normally use categories to do that. What I suggest you to do is to create a category for each person and then create sub-categories, sub-pages or posts under each one.
You can then create template that will target different type of pages, you can also target some keywords.
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So, I'm relatively new to Drupal, and I'd like to make a Drupal site with a front page with a grid of links to other commonly used pages on the site. This site is intended as a sort of community page for a small town, so it would be links like Government, News, Business Directory, History, Forum, etc.
Some of these pages are basic pages on my Drupal site, some are external links, and some are links to views or modules, like the aggregator module. I'd like all of the links to be sortable and generally have the same markup. I'd also like these links to be gathered automatically, i.e. via the 'Promote to Front Page' option or something like that. I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT want to hardcode this to a basic page.
So far my solution has been to create a view with a list of title fields from pages promoted to the front page, and a special content type I named 'Link' which are actually just redirects to external urls. The problem now is that I don't know how to include special pages, like aggregator or view.
Any ideas? Is there a better way to do this? Have I missed something?
The easiest way to do this is as follows.
Create a content type called link with a link field on it.
Create a page view that displays all content of type link and displays the field link
This is a very basic way of doing it, if you wanted more than one list on the page then that would depend on the theme you are using and the links would need to be categorized in someway using taxonomy.
You may also want to look at the flag module.
I am having some problems structuring a Wordpress Website.
Basically this website will have the following pages:
Home
Portfolio
News
Contact
The home will be designed by the index.php, that is no problem. In this page I will show some of the posts that should be in the News and some that should appear in Portfolio.
The pages Portfolio and News should present a list of posts that match this category.
Contact is a normal static page.
My idea was to create a static page for portfolio and for news and to change its theme so I get a list of posts matching this category and handle it. But I found out that this does not work as I thought because pages are not meant to this. For this reason some functions (as the_content) do not work. So I found about Category Templates, which seem exactly what I want.
But now my problem is: my menu is being built automatically and I find it nice. Using the category page template would cause me to need to build it manually, which looks like (for a newbie) a bad smell, once it can be built automatically.
Is the approach with Home->index.php, news and portfolio -> category template and contact -> static page a nice approach?
How would I build the menu in a elegant way with this approach?
Thanks!
Oscar
I don't think your approach was the best, I would have used page templates to pull the different layout/type of pages and use the front-page.php to create the homepage.
But every dev has his own way, I guess.
I think you can easily solve your problem building the menu with the built-in menu builder of wordpress. You can go in Appearance > Menu if your theme is compatible with that.
Check further documentation here
hope it helps!
cheers
In wordpress you can add static page or categories or any other pages to wordpress menu. For creating menu in wordpress see this links.
creating menu
i have a vertical menu that looks like this
HOME
NEWS
ANOTHER PAGE
- SUB PAGE
- SUB PAGE
it is retrieved via wp_list_pages. NEWS is set as my posts page in the WP backend.
what i want to achieve is getting the titles of the 3 latest posts to show up as a submenu of NEWS like so:
HOME
NEWS
- POST 3
- POST 2
- POST 1
ANOTHER PAGE
- SUB PAGE
- SUB PAGE
is there some sort of add_filter/function or even plugin to achieve this?
The problem looks as if you're trying to use a Page Object as a sort of "shell" for corresponding posts. This is probably one of the first traps a Wordpress Developer will find themselves in when developing their own themes, or working with existing code.
In short, you shouldn't use wp_list_pages if you're trying to also list Post Objects. It gets messy, and you're essentially circumventing existing methods that Wordpress provides to do exactly what you need.
What you'll want to do is look into is the built-in Navigation Menus to build out a more flexible menu. If you're using a downloaded theme, then it will almost certainly be supported. Otherwise, you'll need to look into Registering a Navigation Menu to make your theme "menu-aware".
What this will enable you to do is build a flexible menu that supports not only Pages, but also Categories and individual Posts in an intuitive UI. I would suggest deleting that Page Object called "News" altogether, and instead place the News Category in your menu alongside all of your Page Objects in whatever order you like.
As for querying the most recent three posts in your Navigation Menu as sub-menus, this will be a little more complicated to do with pure code.
What I would suggest is to look into this option first. Build out a working - albeit static - prototype to get a feel for the Menu Interface. If you're writing your own theme, replace your wp_list_pages call altogether with wp_nav_menu.
Once you get that working, open a new question to see how to write your own Nav Menu Walker to make everything display exactly how you want.
By taking this approach, you'll ensure that your theme will ALWAYS behave how you want automatically, rather than having to go in every so often to patch things up.
Let me know if this helps.
On my website currently I have two different pages that I will also be creating categories for, with the same name. I would like to have two different content sliders, one pulling from each of the individual categories, so I can post articles and have them only show up in the slider of the relevant page. The plugins I've found for Wordpress so far only allow me to set up one slider that pulls from a category, not two.
What would be the best plugin (or hand coded solution) to solve this problem?
try using slimbox plugin and combining it with http://cssglobe.com/lab/easyslider1.7/03.html
I have a wordpress site that i've been working on that has some pages (as in NOT posts) that a client changes content on in order to target particular keywords. these pages have been using podscms for content management.
The client now wants to be able to duplicate these pages any number of times and edit the text within them. So basically, he wants to be have a dozen or so versions of about 4 linked pages.
Does anyone know if it's possible to duplicate an entire multipage structure like this in WP?
Or any WP driven sites that implement segmentation similarly?
I think your best bet would be to use Page Templates. You define them in the theme and then for each Wordpress page you create, you can select which page template you would like to use for the page. This sounds like what you're trying to accomplish.