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looking for a wordpress plugin

by Ehsan_am
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Hi,

Is there any wordpress plugins that could turn a category list of posts into a page???

Let me make myself clearer. I want the category links on my site to point to a page with content instead of a list of the posts withen that category.

Thanks in advance.
#plugin #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author DarkLour
    Cant you use latest posts widget and set it to a large number then just don't show the category widget? or is this something built into your theme?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ehsan_am
    That is not going to help. I'm looking to have the categories but I want them to be real pages and not a list of posts.
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  • Profile picture of the author DarkLour
    why not just make pages with the category names? sounds like you don't want people looking at the list of posts in a cat? so not sure what you want on the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ehsan_am
    I actually want to preserve the category style. I'm looking to do this for pur SEO goals. I want to be able to rank the actual categoy. The list of posts will be available by another menu.
    The problem with making pages is that I already have some pages and I don't want to mix things up.
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  • Profile picture of the author DarkLour
    can't say ive ever seen a plug in like that i think maybe you would have to modify the archives.php in your theme or copy one to the folder and edit out the have_posts loop in it. then add maybe more if else statements to insert the contenbt you want there depending on the category. but then that woul mess up your other archives i think ;/
    how about making new pages or html pages, using a html widget to link to them so there named after your categories?
    sorry if everything i have said is no help. Best Wishes
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  • Profile picture of the author Ehsan_am
    I was thinking about using the bloroll. Since I just want to rank those pages and don't mind much about the structure of the site which is going to be messed up, I could create posts and just use the blogroll to link to those pages about the categories.

    Thanks for your help.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ehsan_am
    There must be some kind of plugin. Take a look at this website Watch 24 Online. See how the categories point to a single page. That's what I'm after.
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    • Profile picture of the author customertools
      It looks like that site you have for a demo, has the latest post for that category linked to the category link... I'm sure there's a wordpress Widget that will do what you want somewhere out there..

      -Brad
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  • Profile picture of the author HomeBizNizz
    Try making a single PHP page like page.php, but change the WP loop code with the category PHP code. I haven't tested it myself.
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  • Profile picture of the author rufaswan
    In wordpress (1.5+), there is something called "Category Templates" where you can change what to be displayed when the user clicks on any "category" links.

    You can do it by creating or editing any of the following two files in the theme directory:

    1. category.php (for general / all category)
    2. category-ID.php (for specific category only. If the category ID for "books" is "3", then you'll create "category-3.php" to make a custom page for "books")

    Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gasen
    What about redirecting the category url from your hosting control panel?
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  • Profile picture of the author Gasen
    This plugin might be what you are looking for:
    WordPress › Category Page WordPress Plugins
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