New to WordPress – Some Question to Ask

Another thing is the BLOG template that makes me wonder what that is!?

That’s completely theme specific. Sounds like custom page templates or another theme-specific layout option. As this appears to be a commercial theme, you need to seek support from the theme’s vendors.
https://themeforest.net/forums/topic/themeforest/themeforest

so you are saying, I cant seek help in here
regards to my other questions?

The reason Esmi suggested you seek help from support of the theme as we are not familiar with the theme and all themes are coded differently.

We can help you with wordpress related problems

As for your menus if the theme supports custom menus you can create the menu on Appearance>>>Menus and set it up as wish by dragging them to position your pages

yeh I managed to make the SUBmenu ??
but just wondered how to remove the http link for specific menu

example, i want to display

Science <<< this one should have NO link whatsoever
– Technology
– Electronics

In Appearance>>>Menus use Custom menu box instead of adding url just add # in box and in label box Science and add to menu
and then have
Technology
Electronics

as child to Science by dragging them slightly to right and save.

govpatel – yess that worked ??

Just for u to have a look at;
this is the current BLOG.PHP script

Now I copied it and renamed it Science.php
Trying to figure out which code specifies, where it fetches
the posts from, and wanting to make it so it only takes posts from
a specific category or multiple ones…

<?php

// Template Name: Blog

get_header(); ?>

			<!-- BEGIN MAIN -->

			<div id="main">

				<div class="homepage-widget">

					<div class="block full archive clearfix">

						<h3>

							<?php _e('Blog', 'Broadway'); ?>

							<span></span>

						</h3>

						<div class="block-content clearfix">

						<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; ?>

						<?php $blog = new WP_Query('showposts=5'.'&paged='.$paged); ?>

						<?php if ($blog->have_posts()) : while ($blog->have_posts()) : $blog->the_post(); ?>

							<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class('clearfix'); ?>>

								<?php if(has_post_thumbnail()): ?>

								<div class="block-image">

									<div class="post-thumb-container clearfix">

										<?php

										if(has_post_format('video') || has_post_format('audio') || has_post_format('gallery')) {

											$icon = '<span class="post-format-big ' . get_post_format($post->ID) . '"></span>';

										} else {

											$icon = '';

										}

										echo $icon;

										?>

										<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="post-thumbnail">

											<?php the_post_thumbnail('archive-image', array('alt' => get_the_title(), 'title' => get_the_title())); ?>

										</a>

										<?php if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'pyre_overall_score', true)): ?>

										<div class="post-score"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/stars/<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'pyre_overall_score', true); ?>.png" alt="" /></div>

										<?php endif; ?>

									</div>

								</div>

								<?php endif; ?>

								<div class="post-content">

									<h2><a href='<?php the_permalink(); ?>' title='<?php the_title(); ?>'><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

									<p class="post-meta"><?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?>, by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></p>

									<p class="post-excerpt"><?php echo string_limit_words(get_the_excerpt(), 16); ?> ...</p>

									<a href='<?php the_permalink(); ?>' title='<?php the_title(); ?>' class="readmore orange-button"><?php _e('Read More', 'Broadway'); ?></a>

								</div>

							</div>

						<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

						</div>

						<?php kriesi_pagination($blog->max_num_pages, $range = 2); ?>

					</div>

				</div>

			</div>

			<!-- END MAIN -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

hmmmmmm ??

I tried combining something from here:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query

but no luck … pls if someone knows, let me know

Thanks

You can use category in your menu in Custom Menus and when clicked it bring all articles from that category you can check my website by clicking on my name the bottom menu are my categories and top menu are my Pages

Gov

now, I know about CATEGORIES
However, I want to create my own .php theme

and using the blog.php (see script above) to improve it so it shows posts from specific category. Not sure if u understand me

Modify the WP_Query line.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Category_Parameters

This did the trick ??

<?php $blog = new wp_Query('cat=20&showposts=3'.$numposts.'&paged='.$paged); ?>

However, now the Previous and Next links, display different category instead of remaining and showing the next/previous posts of that particular category!

?? any idea?

This is the code responsible for previous / next (I think)

<?php if ($blog->have_posts()) : while ($blog->have_posts()) : $blog->the_post(); ?>

No that’s the line which loops through the selected posts.

Looks like this one controls the page links, but it’s a custom function.
kriesi_pagination($blog->max_num_pages, $range = 2);

oh sure??

I read somewhere that this does the trick:

<?php $numposts = get_option('posts_per_page'); ?>
					<?php $wp_query = new WP_Query('cat=20&showposts=3'.$numposts.'&paged='.$paged); ?>
                    <?php if($wp_query->have_posts()) : while($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

but that did not work

I need help. I am trying to make my right sidebar smaller where the widget area is located. It is hard to put a large pic in the main area because the widget area always cover the photo. The things I have in the widget area is actually small and not using all the space in the widget area. My site is https://makeitorfixit.com. I really need some help. Not really use to dealing with the css sheet.

I have the WordPress Mom theme. Forgot to put that. Trying to make the widget area not take up so much space would love to decrease it. At https://makeitorfixit.com