How to Add Secondary “Blog” Type of Page

Wrong approach. Make the “photo of the week” a category – not a Page. Pages are NOT for displaying posts.

Okay, that makes some sense. But can I turn last week’s “photo of the week” page into a post – backdated, or do I just have to kill it? And can I make the Category archive show the current photo linking to the post? Is there some kind of plug in that will make that happen?
Thanks!

It will be quite easy to transfer any content from a Page to a Post. Just login to your wp-admin, Manage > Pages, go to your existing Page, and Copy the contents (control-C). Then Write > New Post > and Paste it (control-V).

Now, a Category will act pretty much as you requested. Each Category is almost like it’s own blog on a webpage of its own, because, each category automatically appears on its own category page. This is your first step, and it may satisfy all that you need.

Next If you want to HIDE the Photo Category posts from the main page (so Photo Of the Week is NOT mixed among regular blog posts too), you can do that (by excluding the category #, in your theme’s Main Index Template), ask about this again if you need more help on this point.

If you want to DISPLAY the Photo Category posts in your sidebar or somewhere else, you can do that too. A bit more complicated but you can do it. Again it will involve putting some code into your theme’s template files.

Thanks for the suggestions. I successfully managed to transfer the old page to a post (yeah!). But I’m not sure how to do your other suggestions, which I’d like to do. I found the Main Index Template code, but I’m not sure what the code would be to exclude the category, or to display the photo in the sidebar. Is there a direction page you could point me to so that I don’t steal too much of your time?
Thanks!

For excluding any category from being displayed on the main index (homepage) – or anywhere else, for that matter… use the Advanced Category Excluder plugin. Scroll up > Extend > Plugins and search for it.

When you are done with this, we will take care of the sidebar.

Great – that one worked just fine.

Now what’s the plugin for the sidebar?

Thanks again-

First, describe in details WHAT do you want to display in the sidebar (right? left?) and where?

I would like to display the current Photo of the Week with a link to the photo of the week archives. Whether the photo showed in the category list or as a separate picture in the left sidebar, I’d probably be fine either way.

I’d try something like this plugin:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/alakhnors-post-thumb/

Thanks – I’ll give it a try.

Well, I’ve managed to install the plugin a bit. But the latest upgrades won’t install, despite numerous attempts. Also, my plugin selection in my admin panel is showing a 2 in the upper right corner (I’m guessing it’s telling me to upgrade the two files).

However, I do have a widget available, and it’s pulling my latest photo. But can someone tell me the code for the Category filter to include only the one category I want to pull from, and the correct code to fill in “Show Title” so that it does.

Also, despite my checking “link to post”, it’s pulling up a 404 error.

Thanks-