Can wordpress do this? Having issues.....

[mbomb]

I have a little cpa-offer review blog with 3 posts on the main page. Basically my review, plus two other posts with my keywords. It's ranking well and showing some decent conversions for the offer product name. I'd like to add an articles section with about 10 articles for the general niche.

Right now, the blog is setup with the 3 posts on the main page, and then a page for the privacy policy and a page for TOS which appear in the header menu. If I add a page called "Articles" and assign it as the posts page in the "reading" section of my settings, then it will appear in the heading and will automatically show any articles I posts to it, but the problem is that it will also show my posts from the main page. Another problem is that since the main page is showing my "latest posts" then it will also show any article posts that I put on the "Articles" page.

I would just like to set things up, so that my first page stays as is(with my review and 2 posts), but then add an "Articles" page and have my general posts only show up in that section. Does that makes sense?

How can I do this with Wordpress?

Thanks.

Mike

[LynnM]

Mike, if you go to the Settings/Reading on the dashboard, there's an option to pick a static page to display instead of your latest posts. I'm not sure about the adding posts to a page, although you can make a category called articles and post to it.
If you want a particular post to always show at the top of the site then when you are in the add or edit posts section, go to the right, under publish/visibility/edit and change to "stick this post to the front page".

Hope something there helps!


Lynn

[Quentin]

Hi Mike

I would change the reading back to a blog style and then Articles will be a separate page in the top.

You can then add each article to another page under that parent page with all their own SEO stuff. The article page you could set up like a contents page for all the separate articles.

Quentin

[mbomb]

I think I'm getting closer, but I still can't quite make it work. Anyone available to chat on skype or IM?

Mike

[SageSound]

I have a similar question.

I have a theme with tabs across the top.

I want to have a heirarchical display of pages in the sidebar. If I put Categories there, you see everything.

What I want may be what the OP wants as well:

If you have a category link named, say, "Articles", then what you'd see on the front page and top-level pages is the "Articles" link.

When you click that link, what you see in the sidebar is a list of links to the articles.

And the menu item at the top that says "Articles" would have a drop-down that contains each article title.

The problem seems to come in if the articles are on separate Pages rather than posts.

I've seen plugins that do that, only I've lost track of them.

Any ideas?
-David

[VegasGreg]

There are a few ways to actually accomplish this. Here is one way to do it for your situation:

==>>First make your existing 3 posts "sticky" as mentioned above.
==>>Make sure your site only displays 3 posts at a time.
==>>Add a category called "Articles".
==>>Add all your new posts to that category.
==>>Go into your theme editor and go to the header section and manually add the code/link called "Articles" as the anchor text and link it to your category page "Articles" (depending on your permalink settings the link will be something like mydomainname.com/category/articles)

That will do it. Of course there are many variations to that equation that could be used depending on your theme and code editing skills.

Hope that helps,

Greg

[mbomb]

Ok, I set things up slightly different - First I converted the 3 posts on my front page into stickys, then I added a category called "Articles". To the "Articles" category I assigned a single test post. Next I added the "Categories" widget to my side bar so that my "Article" category would show up in my right navigation. The only issue now is that although my number of posts to display is limited at 3, my test post is still showing up on my first page under my 3 sticky posts. How do I make it so that the posts assigned to the "Articles" category only show up in that category and not on my front page?

Thanks for all your help.

Mike

[derrickvandyke]

A simple solution is to modify the script that displays pages, usually page.php. Add your own custom HTML without a sidebar, header or footer.

Then add the following code where you want to page content to appear:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

[Istvan Horvath]

I see a lot of over-complication in this thread

Sticky posts should be used temporarily - depending on what do you want to feature in a certain period of time.

To exclude a category from showing on the homepage (or anywhere else, for that matter) >> WordPress › Advanced Category Excluder WordPress Plugins (plugin)

For having a two-level menu >> get the WP tutorials in my sig...

And just for the record: when you mess around with the Reading options in the WP admin - you need 2 [two] existing Pages to make it work:
- one for front/homepage
- one for "posts page"

So, if you want a blog on the front - don't do anything with the Reading options.
Just create a (parent/main) Page "Articles" and all your articles as sub-Pages of that. With my method you will have Articles in the top menu and all the sub (and sub-sub) Pages displayed in the sidebar.

Let me know if you need more help.