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Wordpress problem

by ronc0011
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I'm trying to set up my Wordpress blog so that he first page of the blog is in fact a list of the categories with the various post titles listed under the categories basically a hierarchal list of categories and post. I've been at this for going on my second day and have not been able to come up with anything I've tried a couple of plugins one of which is List Category Post which seems to work mostly OK also seems to be imposable to style So I'm wondering if there is some other solution that allows styling with less special knowledge of how the plugin is built i.e. something that can be styled with simple straightforward CSS
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketer Matt
    Originally Posted by ronc0011 View Post

    I'm trying to set up my Wordpress blog so that he first page of the blog is in fact a list of the categories with the various post titles listed under the categories basically a hierarchal list of categories and post. I've been at this for going on my second day and have not been able to come up with anything I've tried a couple of plugins one of which is List Category Post which seems to work mostly OK also seems to be imposable to style So I'm wondering if there is some other solution that allows styling with less special knowledge of how the plugin is built i.e. something that can be styled with simple straightforward CSS
    If you don't mind digging into the code, these two posts will probably help you:
    How to List Categories along with Their Posts

    Template Tags/wp list categories « WordPress Codex

    I'm not sure if any plugins that do this straight away.
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  • Profile picture of the author webpeon
    something similar to how a sitemap would look?

    do you have something current I can look at?
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  • Profile picture of the author nest
    What about using a WP directory plugin? Would that solve the problem?

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  • Profile picture of the author luvtrees
    You can try a plugin like WP Realtime Sitemap. Then just place the shortcode for it on your homepage. It allows you to set what appears in your sitemap as well with lots of options.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    The last time I have seen something like this was a custom "home.php" template file in the theme: using multiple Loops it was displaying something like this -
    cat1 title
    - post title in cat1
    -- (optional excerpt)
    - posts title... etc.
    cat2 title
    - post title in cat2...

    As a general note: when you need to have something completely different on your main/home page, use/create the home.php template - in this way you keep the index.php as it was, which is a wise thing knowing that file is the fallback template for every missing/non-existent template file!
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    • Profile picture of the author steliodj
      Originally Posted by ronc0011 View Post

      I'm trying to set up my Wordpress blog so that he first page of the blog is in fact a list of the categories with the various post titles listed under the categories basically a hierarchal list of categories and post. I've been at this for going on my second day and have not been able to come up with anything I've tried a couple of plugins one of which is List Category Post which seems to work mostly OK also seems to be imposable to style So I'm wondering if there is some other solution that allows styling with less special knowledge of how the plugin is built i.e. something that can be styled with simple straightforward CSS

      If you want to just use a only straightforward CSS to customize then your best options is to use a plugin similar to "WP Realtime Sitemap"
      Then you can just create a page and instead of content on the wysiwyg editor in wordpress just write this [wp-realtime-sitemap] .
      This will automatically display a sitemap on that page but you can choose using the plugins settings from wp-admin what to be displayed, there you can choose only to display the categories and their posts.

      Then you just have to select in wordpress settings to serve that page as the Home page.



      Kind Regards,
      Stelios D
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