Need some direction on customizing pages

Yes. Or you could use the approach outlined in https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#A_Page_of_Posts

Thanks… This last one displays posts based on the category. What if I wanted to display posts based on a subcategory or a tag?

Again, this is a really basic question, but the way I am envisioning the architecture of my site would be to have maybe five basic categories, with topic areas related ro each category.

For example, using a Winter Olympics theme, the site architecture would be:
Home -> Sports – > Athletes -> Postings about specific athletes

So, each sub-category Page (Athletes) would have a paragraph or two about a specific athelete followed by a listing all the posts about that athelete.

Based on this, I was envisioning a category like Sports, a subcategory of Athletes, and then a tagging structure using the athletes name.

Would this be a good approach? I want to try to implement a solution that can be in place for a while…

Ooops, need to claify mt example a bit…

For example, using a Winter Olympics theme, the site architecture would be:
Home -> Sports – > Athletes -> Specific Athletes with postings about each athlete

So, each sub-category Page (Specific Athletes) would have a paragraph or two about a specific athelete followed by a listing all the posts about that athelete.

I’m the architecture as Category -> Sub-Category -> Tags.

Is there a way to display posts by Category -> Tag?

Is there a way to display posts by Category -> Tag?

You could use a custom query along the lines of:

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args= array(
	'category_name' => 'Athletes',
	'tag' => '500 metres',
	'paged' => $paged
);
query_posts($args);
?>

which could list all posts regarding athletes that compete in 500 metre events.

esmi, thanks for the orientation. I appreciate it very much!