Need help setting up topic specific page

  • pcolson

    (@pcolson)


    20 years, 4 months ago

    My main page contains blog topics of varying interests of mine. I want to set up seperate Pages for each topic that will be almost like seperate sites. My site is at http://www.pcolson.net.
    I am trying to set up the Fitness page now. I want to have exerpts of “My Fitness Blog” in the left sidebar, with the title being a link to that category. I also would like links on each post to go to the full post. I want to have 2 items in the main content area. The description of this Page at the top, and underneath that I want to display my “Fitness” blog category which will be used for page news.
    The right sidebar will be used for sign in, and links to articles (that I need to start writing once I have this set up 🙂 )
    I have the exerpts displayed in the left sidebar, but the first post displays in the main content area. I want the actual Page content to display there, with the other blog category displayed below that.
    I know nothing about PHP, in fact, I’ve never seen PHP code before starting with WordPress. If the examples in the codex are exactly what I need, I am fine, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to change them. If anyone could help me out, I would really appreciate it. I don’t usually request handholding like this, but I am anxious to get this working so I can concentrate on creating content.

    Thanks, Paul

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  • skrp

    (@skrp)

    20 years, 4 months ago

    Not sure if I totally understand your question? It I get the top part – “I want to set up seperate Pages for each topic that will be almost like seperate sites” you may want to try setting up your categories as subdomains. However, I not sure if I totally comprehend what your are trying to do. Hopefully this helps.

    Thread Starter pcolson

    (@pcolson)

    20 years, 4 months ago

    I would like to use subdomains, if you know of a good way to set subdomains to Pages, please let me know.
    What I am really working on now is trying to get the 2 blog categories to display correctly on my Page. I have “My Fitness Blog” displayed in the sidebar, but it also displays the first post in the content area. In the content area, I want to display the text I wrote when I created the Page. Below that I want to display my “Fitness” category.

    I’m trying to figure this out, but I am not finding anything with the search. I am looking through the forums, but I haven’t found what I need yet. The code I used for the sidebar was from the codex, and it is doing what codex said it would. I just don’t know how to modify it to do what I want it to. I don’t have a real solid understanding of the loop, and I think that might be where I’m having problems.

    Thanks, Paul

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    20 years, 4 months ago

    trying to get the 2 blog categories to display correctly on my Page

    Wouldn’t be easier to use Category_Templates than to struggle to force WP to do something in a complicated way…?

    Thread Starter pcolson

    (@pcolson)

    20 years, 4 months ago

    moshu – I will check into the category templates when I get home from work. Do you know of any forum topics about them? I am really having a hard time trying to figure out how to change things from the examples in the codex.

    Thanks, Paul

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