Can I do this?:Date based “diary” in ONE category

You can do this in any number of easy ways with wordpress, by either using categories and subcategories or just all regular categories but by hardcoding category links in wherever you choose to have them so that they appear only when you want them to.

My suggestion would be for you to explore the codex THOROUGHLY… with a little knowledge, you can turn your site into just about anything you want using wordpress. ??

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Main_Page
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Category_Templates
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Manage_Categories_SubPanel
and there are many more – you just search the codex and you’ll find just about everything you need.

Good luck!

ok thanks!
I must admit that I was hoping for an easy way out like, yes to get a datebased display of ONE category only do like this:……
I am sure one can do anything it’s just that I first learned to use MT in every way ( a couple of years;-) and now….well I hav become older and my brain is not that elastic as it formerly was…
Ulrika

lol understandable… but i’m here to say that wp is way easier to manage… what you’re wanting to do is easy enough, you just have to get into the program itself to see what to do.

half the battle is getting the site set up, getting your stuff imported, and getting the layout you want…

if you need help with importing, check out this link: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Importing_Content#Movable_Type

okay I have done it. I have ONE category that displays everything based on dates. HOW do I get it to display ONLY postings categorized under that particular category? Please

Well if you’re only using one category, that’s the only category that will show up.

I’m not sure what you’re asking at this point…

okay no I have several categories. What I want to do is displaying ONLY posts in Category Diary in calendar mode so to speak. With monthly archive links in the sidebar. I E I want to pick out only posts in category diary and sort them in datebased style. The rest of the categories are not relevant to have inmonthly archives since they are more like at database with info and pictures of different plants.. Yes I am a plant freak;-)

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats try looking there for help with what you’re wanting.

essentially you only want to show from one category, so you’ll be wanting to make use of exlude and exclude all other categories from showing up in the sidebar, correct?

when a user then clicks on the only category there, your posts will show up in an archive format, listed by date, most recent first.

no I am sorry it’s so hard to explain.

My categories are Roses, Fuchsias, plants…etc AND then i have one category named Diary.

I want to have monthly archives displaying ONLY Diary category posts, not the post to the other cats…

In MT i write “monthly archives category_name=Diary” or something, and nowI want to do something in that line in WP;-)

you can see my efforts on:www.omstart.se/wp

I’m sorry – I don’t know what else to tell you other than what I have…

Try looking through the documentation on themes, tags, and so on, to see if you can find out what you’re looking to do:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Themes
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Stepping_Into_Templates

Heartfelt thank you for bothering anyhow!
I suspect that this is one of the things pretty “not so easy”
as several of my other problems on the way to this one. At least I lern a bit of php…

No php will help.
WP just works along a different logic. If you want a stress-free life – forget whatever MT does or did, and learn to deal witht he WP features.
Monthly archives are just that: list of ALL posts made in a certain month. No possibility to (re-)filter them by categories.
You can show category “archives – all posts assigned to that category, but in this case there is no possibility to re-group them by month.

(I am not saying it is impossible; for coders almost always there is a way to do it… but not with the existing features and/or plugins.)

That was my conclusion after sifting through the forums too.
I’ll put my son on the coding though;-)

The only solution I can think of in that case beside sticking to MT that can do what I want to do is :having two wp installs-two blogs merged on the site, and export the entries I want published both in the category based section and in the datebased… Is THAT possible or will I have problems doing that?
Because I really WANT to have some things that WP can but MT cannot;-)

Ulrika, this can be done as you wish, but may be a little bit of a kludge…
codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop
You can use a couple of IF statements to filter out the archive page.
Use an if(is archive) to call an instance of the loop that only displays your diary category.

If you need more detailed help, drop me a mail, and I’ll see what I can do!

See others struggling with the same issue:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/69776?replies=7

blogtakular I thought so when reading about the loop, and tried make a query for only the posts in the diary category and after that get archives monthly. It seemed to work , It actually did once;-) After that all my monthly archives showed only the first page of category Diary and the links did not work at all:-)

moshu..seems awfully messy…