Category display in a page

  • I’m running a WordPress site for a local non-profit. I’ve rigged up their meeting minutes to be a category in WordPress, but I want it to be displayed as a page.

    There are two methods of doing this:

    The first involves me creating a template (page-meetings.php) and assigning it to a page. This allows me to create a link on the menu bar and have “current page” work in themes that support it. The problem here is that this template – with a modified theloop included – doesn’t acknowledge more links and excerpts at all, leading to a very messy page.

    The other way involves creating a category template (category-5.php). It uses the exact same code as the previous template, and it looks perfect when doing some manual URL trickery. My problem here? No way to get to it.

    Can anybody help me? I’d be very grateful. If anybody needs a code snippet, I’ll be glad to.

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  • I’ve installed Exec-PHP onto my WP, then I put the <?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&exclude&title_li='); ?> category code onto my archives page.

    …It’s a lazy way of doing it, but it works for now.

    Exec-PHP can be downloaded here: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/exec-php/

    Thread Starter Zach Waldowski

    (@zwaldowski)

    Right, that’s helpful in a way… but I need a list of the articles in a category.

    I have a similar problem, where on my website I have some pages that would work being displayed as categories and one page that needs to be displayed as a page. I would really like to make it have all navigation as pages…but have most of the pages display categories. My website is my portfolio (www.jimpickettdesign.com). Here is how I would like it all set up:

    3-D = List articles in this category (and possibly display a gallery on the page as well

    2-D = List articles in this category (and possibly display a gallery on the page as well

    Design = List articles in this category (and possibly display a gallery on the page as well

    Misc. = List articles in this category (and possibly display a gallery on the page as well

    Photography = Display gallery

    I’ve found a few different solutions and none of them are working. My guess is they are not working because of the theme I am using (Options theme : https://themehybrid.com/themes/options)

    Some of the solutions were plugins like “Category Page” (https://pixline.net/wordpress-plugins/category-page-wordpress-plugin/en/)
    or
    Sobek’s posts in category plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/sobeks-post-in-category/

    Does anyone have any advice for this?
    note: I’m using the Multi-level navigation plugin (awesome plugin for drop down menus and other menu/navigation customization)
    I had thought about making a custom navigation through this plugin where it would list the category pages and then my photography page.

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    EDIT:
    I found another way that might work: https://tpvswp.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/how-to-make-category-tabs-in-wordpresscom/ <<>> this works, and you do not need to have the page be 2 words as the article mentions. Mine works fine without 2 words.

    This is also a plugin that might work too: https://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/ <<>> I havnt tested this one yet, but it does not seem to apply to what we want to do by its description.

    I found this that might help too (I havnt tested it): https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/227758?replies=4

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