headermenu: pages, categories, combination?

To have a page called blog, that displays the main loop of posts, try this

(you may have a blog template in your theme already, see if when you create a page, from the attributes you can choose “blog”).

1 – create a new file in your theme folder and call it page-blog.php
In that file put the following

<?php /*
	Template Name: Blog
*/ ?>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/index.php'); ?>

Now you have a blog template with the loop from the index file.

2 – In WordPress, create a new page called “Blog”, this page will appear in the menu tabs automatically (now that you have wp_list_pages)

3 – From the attributes, select “blog” as the template. Publish.

It should work fine.

I am assuming you don’t have the full loop in your “home” page? Just featured posts? If the above doesn’t solve your problem, please provide a link to your site, so we can look at it.

Thank you. I will try this when I get off work. At the moment I have:

<li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&'.$page_sort.'&'.$pages_to_exclude)?>
<?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&depth=1&'.$category_sort.'&'.$categories_to_exclude)?>

which displays the cat’s and pages in the header. Sort of solves my problem, I think. Although it might still give me problems with the subcategories.

I’ll try your method, and see what I run into!

Hello buddha,

it seems to work! Now I have a page that has got a post on it. I just don’t know which one. The one that is on there now isn’t one that I have made. I think because I need to attach my posts to a category, I could best work with categories, and use my own way as I have described above this post, with displaying categories and pages in the header. That seems to work. I only have to see what it will do to subcategories, but that surely is no problem.

For the time being (don’t mind the coding, I am cluttering it a bit playing) my blog is at https://www.manenburg.nl/blog/ pherhaps you can see some better sollution with that as a helper!

dekraan,

I visited your site, and I am a little confused now.

You have two blog tabs, of which one is a page, and one is a category.
The page is not showing the loop, which means that probably the theme is built differently than a normal index page.

It’s a premium paid theme, so I can’t download it to check.
But they offer support on their site for paid themes
https://www.themespinner.com/support/
You may want to ask them.

Another thing you can try, in the “Blog” template that you created, instead of calling the TEMPLATEPATH to the index page, try to incorporate a normal loop. You have a loop in the “category” blog, so copy the content of that in the “page” blog template and see if it works.

Buddha,

I am also confused! ?? the reason I have the two ‘blogs’ is that I found that making it a category (like this) worked, and then I added your method. I will try and copy the loop from the category page to the normal page, and see what happens!

The support on themespinner is rather worthless by the way. I have registered but they do not ‘approve’ my account, so I can’t post anything. I’ve tried pm’ing as well, or mailing the supportadress, but I think no one’s home, sadly.

EDIT:

I am somewhat confused of what I should copy/paste.

Is it:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
					<?php $post = $posts[0];  ?>
					<div class="post">
						<div class="entry">
						<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
							<div style="text-align:justify;">
								<?php the_content(); ?>
								<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>
						<?php endwhile; ?>
							</div>
						</div>
					</div>
				<?php else : ?>
					<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/notfound.php');?>
				<?php endif; ?>

I can not find anything else. This is from the Page Template (page.php) section. If you are very keen on helping me (which would be very appreciated), pherhaps I could mail you the documents, or let you have a peek on my dashboard!

dekraan,

page.php usually will give you the single post content (like you see when clicking on a permalink), not the loop. But at first glance, the code seems about right…

Try to double check with index.php from the Default theme.

Yes, it’s fine to take a look at your theme files. I just need the theme, not the dashboard.
I have a contact page on my site (click on my gravatar), send me a note and I will email you back.