2010 Theme: menu with categories & pages

About this issue,

The problem seems to come from the fact that when using “categories” to build up a menu in Appearance > Menu it links to an URL that looks like this:
https://www.talents-of-afghanistan.com/category/news/
But My “news” category can be only seem to be accessed by an URL like:
https://www.talents-of-afghanistan.com/?cat=13

The solution I found so far is to enter each link manually. It seems to work, except that I still can’t get the images/thumbnails to be displayed but that might involve some CSS editing. Anyone knows where to look?

I checked your site, and here’s what I noticed:
From the category widget menu the books and tutorials category links to https://www.talents-of-afghanistan.com/?cat=18
From the Menu bar, it’s trying to link to https://www.talents-of-afghanistan.com/category/books-tutorials and not finding it-which is why you’re getting the 404 Not Found.
One guess: Your permalinks settings might have something to do with this.

For the gallery feature to work correctly the gallery category must be named gallery and each of your gallery posts should be assigned to the gallery category.

Hope this helps. By the way, that’s a really nice looking site.

You shouldn’t need to enter each link manually. But you’re on to the problem!

Hi builtbynorthby, thanks for your reply and nice comment.

I might have found the trick:
I guess I have to go to Posts > categories and there click on each category and fill in:

Category Specific Permalinks – URL base:

Each category has a slug though, and i don’t really see the interest of the slugs if we need to fill in thecategories permalinks as well.

Let’s see how it goes.

Have you configured the permalinks setting?

OK found it, it is in Settings > permalinks

optional

If you like, you may enter custom structures for your category and tag URLs here. For example, using topics as your category base would make your category links like https://example.org/topics/uncategorized/. If you leave these blank the defaults will be used.

Category base > i just had to put “category” here

As for how to display the images or thumbnails in the categories, I still haven’t figured that out. Any clue?

OK I do have a Category Template (category.php)
any idea of the code to insert in there to get a thumbnail of the image of each post?

the 2010 theme has a built in gallery category feature. No coding needing. Check out loop.php and you’ll see it there.

It looks like the slug for your Gallery category is “paintings”. If you set the slug to “gallery”, then assign each gallery post to that category, you should get the desired effect.

thanks for the info.

actually the slug is set to paintings as my category before was :paintings: but then i made subcategories, and renamed “paintings” into “Gallery” but didn’t change the slug as it was not necessary, and would have required some 301 manipulations which i was not feeling confident enough to do.

What I would like to have is that for each category or subcategory (not only for gallery, but also artist (no data yet) news, etc, the first image of the post appears as a thunbnail in the related category page