WordPress.com Forums » Topic: creating automatic lists of posts in categories http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories WordPress.com Forums » Topic: creating automatic lists of posts in categories en Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 johnlvs2run on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364806 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:11:26 +0000 johnlvs2run 364806@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ you're very welcome, wildrose. 

I get a subpage called http://cherrytart.wordpress.com/category/writing.

Could I not now make a widget in the sidebar (potentially even a hyperlinked image), and make it link to this page?

You can also make a tag widget as follows:

http://ninatoastmasters.wordpress.com/tag/nina-toastmasters/

]]> sylwiaofwarsaw on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364751 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:15:45 +0000 sylwiaofwarsaw 364751@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'd love a categories option shortcode!

]]> wildrose965 on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364613 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:08:58 +0000 wildrose965 364613@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @johnlvs2run, thanks! Kind of you to say so.

]]> johnlvs2run on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364526 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:55:03 +0000 johnlvs2run 364526@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Wildrose, that's a great suggestion thanks.

I like your bright orange avatar and your blog. :)

]]> wildrose965 on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364504 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:39:01 +0000 wildrose965 364504@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh, I see. That makes sense. Thanks for the answer.

]]> thesacredpath on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364503 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:37:51 +0000 thesacredpath 364503@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, that will work wildrose, but the original poster wanted to have an introductory paragraph or two at the top of each category page, and that is not possible at this time.

]]> wildrose965 on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364500 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:32:18 +0000 wildrose965 364500@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Maybe I'm not understanding the question, but I'm thinking of trying this:

I put a category widget into my sidebar. When I select a certain category - eg. "writing" - I get a subpage called http://cherrytart.wordpress.com/category/writing.

Could I not now make a widget in the sidebar (potentially even a hyperlinked image), and make it link to this page? Then I could eliminate the official category widget and the page would be automatically updated as I add posts.

Will that work? It's certainly not short code, but it might be neat.

http://cherrytart.wordpress.com

]]> thesacredpath on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364495 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:52:44 +0000 thesacredpath 364495@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I heard back from staff, and the function used for the archive shortcode does not have a category parameter to filter by, but it may be something they could add in the future.

Sad to say in this case that what you might have to do if you want an introductory paragraph and then a list of just the post titles by category, is to create your own and then manually update it each time you create a new post in that category.

Have a look at this blog post, http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/full-posts-in-archive-pages/ , and on the center column of themes, look at note 4 which explains that with those templates you can have the categories/archives pages show only a title with a little easy trickery.

]]> 1tess on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364471 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:26:11 +0000 1tess 364471@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ drdemshar
This might be of interest. I don't know how many categories you have but here is a way to put a navigation tab to the category page you mentioned. Some themes allow only one row of navigation tabs, so if you have lots of them, this may not be useful:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/page-tabs-as-external-links/

I agree with tsp that a shortcode for cats would be extremely useful, but so far it is not available…

]]> thesacredpath on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364452 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:51:00 +0000 thesacredpath 364452@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There was a new archives shortcode feature that showed up the other day and it would work well for this, but there is no categories option. I've contacted staff and asked them if it is an option they could add to the shortcode, but I won't know anything until I hear back from them. I've bookmarked this thread and will post back here when I hear back from them. A categories option would be a good addition to the shortcode.

You can read about the archives shortcode here: http://support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/ .

]]> drdemshar on "creating automatic lists of posts in categories" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/creating-automatic-lists-of-posts-in-categories#post-364428 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:30:46 +0000 drdemshar 364428@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ hi, i'm very new to wordpress and love the ease of use but i'm finding myself a bit limited in certain areas of customizability. it probably has something to do with my wanting to create this particular site as more of a static content site and less like a blog, but i digress. the problem i'm trying to resolve is demonstrated on this page (http://drdemshar.wordpress.com/flying-samaritans/). what i'm trying to do is create a main page for each category, in this case the "flying samaritans", and then have code on that page dynamically grab a list of posts matching that category and listing them. this is mainly so each page can be clicked on individually instead of having them all list like in a standard blog. is this possible? i'll buy upgrade features if necessary.

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