Title: WordPress Sections Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # WordPress Sections * [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/) * How could I create WordPress sections? So I get this sort of setup: * [http://domain.com/blog/category/design/](http://domain.com/blog/category/design/) * Blog being a section, then design a category within that section. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287835) * Any updates on this? I noticed that [http://carsonified.com/](http://carsonified.com/) use this on their site (check the blog for the example). * [lokrin2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lokrin2000/) * (@lokrin2000) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287839) * Those are standard WordPress categories. Instead of having them listed in the sidebar they have them listed in a horizontal NavBar up top. * There are a few themes around like that already, or you can tweak a theme that you like. * Thread Starter [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287864) * Yes I know they’re categories, but how have they got the category AFTER the main category, so for example domain.com/blog/category/… * By default WordPress would do this: domain.com/category/blog/…/ * Any ideas? I have looked into simply adding /blog/ in the permalink, but that would break if I wanted more than one section, such as blog, and portfolio. * Thread Starter [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287869) * Would what is discussed here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Rewrite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Rewrite) * Be of any help? If so, could someone post how to write it so I can have this sort of setup: * domain.com/blog/category/… * domain.com/portfolio/category/… * Thread Starter [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287876) * Any updates? * Thread Starter [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287886) * Hate to be a pain. But would anyone be able to help with this? Thanks again. * [darttiglao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darttiglao/) * (@darttiglao) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287887) * A bit clunky solution but I remember having a web client with two branches of their shop and each must have its own subsite in one domain, with slightly differences in theme and content. * So I set up two almost identical wordpress sites in one domain. So two folders or sections. So the format was [http://www.client.com/branch1](http://www.client.com/branch1) and [http://www.client.com/branch2](http://www.client.com/branch2). * Which resulted in something of what you imagine as sections. Of course the root folder or your themes should have external links to both wordpress sites. * It’s actually easier than it sounds. * [darttiglao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darttiglao/) * (@darttiglao) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287888) * I have a feeling this is also what carsonified.com did in a way – The site has manually coded html folders and a subsite of an installed wordpress blog… * Thread Starter [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287890) * I don’t want to have two installations of WordPress and I’m pretty sure that Carsonified uses WP for their whole site, but stick /blog/ in the permalink settings to fake the section. But looking at the WP_Rewrite it seems it would be possible to create your own permalinks to achieve this. * I came across this: [http://www.prodeveloper.org/create-your-own-rewrite-rules-in-wordpress.html](http://www.prodeveloper.org/create-your-own-rewrite-rules-in-wordpress.html) which explains how to do it in a nutshell. But I don’t fully understand it. Some help to create what I want using WP_Rewrite would be super helpful 🙂 * [darttiglao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darttiglao/) * (@darttiglao) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287891) * How do you plan to create and manage the “sections”? As pages or categories? * Thread Starter [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287903) * Does it matter? I actually use both. Pages and Cats to manage my content. So I have a page called Blog and also a Category called Blog to house all my blog posts and the same for my Portfolio. * Thread Starter [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287911) * Any updates? Thanks again. * [darttiglao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darttiglao/) * (@darttiglao) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287919) * Hi. Sorry I have to stick to my original solution of creating different WordPress installations. That or create template pages for sections with a specific loop for a category of post . Something like the solution here [http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-shortcode-display-the-loop](http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-shortcode-display-the-loop). In effect, a page will have its own category. * So yes indeed you have to be clear whether you will manage the main sections as categories or as pages because the structure you want seems like having post categories within a page category when wordpress by default treats them separately. * As as I know the Rewrite rules solution won’t help you at all since it will just rewrite the URL for one “section” that you want. * Thread Starter [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * (@driz) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287924) * Thanks for the reply. I already have the system setup using categories as sections using WP_Query for each one and styling them different (similar in effect but different in code to what you linked to) * What I want is to edit the URLS for my sections. So one “section” would be perfect and then I can just copy the code for each section right? After all it’s a custom Theme so I don’t need to worry about a person adding NEW Sections as I’m the one creating them, same as having the custom category templates. * [greg_a](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greg_a/) * (@greg_a) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/#post-1287929) * driz, in answer to your query regarding the Carsonified site, we do indeed simply use ‘/blog/’ in the permalink (using a page called ‘Blog’ and setting ‘Posts page’ under ‘Settings > Reading’ to ‘Blog’). * If you’re not using / displaying / relying on the author field you could potentially use that to create a second ‘category’ for use in the URL structure / post separation, bit of a bodge but might do the trick. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘WordPress Sections’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 16 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [driz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/driz/) * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-sections/page/2/#post-1287948) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics