Categories, how?

Pages are not categorizable. They exist in and of themselves, outside the “normal” flow of the blog. You may edit the content of a page, but it does not get “posts” added to it….

1. Pages don’t have categories.
2. You cannot write posts for Pages.

Thats sad.
I intended to create a Page as a kind of sub-blog for the main blog.
How would that be possible?

It’s not possible. WP is a single blog software.
Read about Pages – that why I gave you the links.

UPDATED: Nevermind lol…after seeing MOSHU’s reply I understand that they are asking for something more extensive which WP doesn’t provide really…

<think> Why not just get a plugin like RUNPHP or PHPEXEC or something and add the call tags for whatever you want, inside that page you’re making.

Instead of making the page with text, add the call tags for the stuff you want showing up within that page.. It might not be perfect or whatever…but it’s something lol. I dunno, maybe I’m just not under fer fluckin understanding your intentions or something lol.

Just remember though, when using RUNPHP plugin, you’ll need to put a checkmark in the box option for eval() Content which is under the Allow Pings option when creating the page..

spencerp

< sips more beer > mmm….good! Better just keep mouth shut unless I know for sure what I can help ppl with hahaha… < sips again > …..yep!

I can use PHP, no need a plugin, I only dont know the call tags or which call tags exist.

Oh, just search for tags on the Codex then..
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags

From there go and search for the “tags” you’re looking for.. =)
<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?> <–example tag for calling your archives for or by monthly….
spencerp

Thats a good hint,
thanks a lot.

No problem.. =) Just maybe try searching more often, because the moderators like Moshu will or usually point people in that direction to begin with lol. Which he did previously above…just a thought. That’s what I usually do.. =) Just search for tags or go to the Codex pages and do that…always helps..

spencerp

hi spencerp
I have tried out various things now.
much is working smooth, like putting in calenders.
Other things are not working at all like putting posts within one category into a ‘Page’.
That messes everything up.
Well, guess I’ve got something to play with ??

seems as if if – endif while – endwhile doesnt work well
that always causes errors with WP1.5

What is your intentions with the blog may I ask lol? Cause no one can help anyone without an idea or an intention of what they want done to begin with lol.. Like, what you want your blog to do or how do you want the layout… I myself would like certain things and yet have problems figuring it out, and don’t ask questions most of the time, because I want to figure it out on my own…hehe…

spencerp

My intention is to create a page and then sort posts into the various pages instead of having categories and everything is displayed on the mainpage.

So, I have made some posts for the category lets say ‘Colombia’. Cat=3
Then I have made a Colombia ‘Page’ and want to display the excerpts of the posts on the Colombia ‘Page’.

using query_posts(cat=3)works fine to display the posts of cat=3.

as soon as I start now with PHP: while (have_posts())….
endwhile; that creates errors in the RUNPHP plugin.

Then also PHP stuff like: the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry »’);…doesnt work on Pages. That creates a page with only the header, no more. Everything messed up.

No choice,
I could not put it into the text of the Page.

Now I have changed the Page Template and there the script works fine.

EXCEPT

the parameters of the_content(). Here “the_content(‘more…’) shows the full text instead of the MORE link to see more

Guess its a WP bug.

umm,
Would the Category_Templates be of help for you? I mean you can create different layout for each category (see the link). That’s step one.
Next, you can pick a plugin tha helps you to define which categories do you want to display on your main page.
(as an alternative solution you can create a home.php template and have totally different content on it than on a usual index.php template).

BTW – the “more” thingy works only if while writing a post you insert the more tag in the text where you want to break it – see the Quicktags above the writing area.