page categories > wiki categories

  • Resolved rosina lippi

    (@greenery)


    3 years, 2 months ago

    First, I was ecstatic when I found this wiki. Thank you. Second, I wish I had found it sooner, because I think I’d have few questions now.

    1. I have a pretty complex category setup for pages. With considerable effort I changed all pages to wiki pages, where, I discovered, the categories do not carry over. Is there a way to get page categories to populate the wiki category slots? She said hopefully.

    2. Pages don’t show categories, this is true. But is there a way to show categories on the wiki pages? After so much drama creating the category structure, I would like to be able to utilize it.

    3. It’s unlikely that could change themes at this point, but is there a theme that works particularly well with your plugin? Out of curiosity.

    4. If you had a tip jar I would make use of it.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author dmccan

    (@dmccan)

    Hi @greenery –

    Nice looking site!

    I haven’t tried this, but I found a plugin that might work to move categories to wiki categories:

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/term-management-tools/

    I’d try it out on a test site first and make a backup before using it in case it doesn’t work as desired.

    The theme is what outputs the categories on the page. You could create a child theme, copy the theme template that is used by the child theme for wiki pages, and modify that to output the categories. It is possible that your theme has that option in the Customizer, or maybe it has a builder that would allow you to create a template for wiki pages?

    If none of those work, you might try the free Blocksy theme. I think it will allow you to output the categories in the section where you show the date and author or maybe at the bottom of the content.

    Thanks for the offer, but no tip necessary.

    Hope this helps,

    David

    Thread Starter rosina lippi

    (@greenery)

    Hey David — It does help, thank you. I’ll give the plugin a whirl and see if it works for me. In the meantime, a bigger issue has come up.

    Do you know if the wiki plugin interferes with page layout? I tried to change the page template (I’m assuming that’s the template the wiki uses) to ‘default – no sidebar’ because the wiki text just needs more room — but no matter how I approach it, the sidebar still comes up on both regular pages and on wiki pages. I don’t think css will do the trick on this, and I’m just generally baffled. Thoughts?

    Thanks for the kind words about the site.

    rosina

    PS think about that tip jar idea

    Plugin Author dmccan

    (@dmccan)

    Hi Rosina,

    It shouldn’t mess up a template. You can use this plugin to see which template the theme is using by going to a wiki page and looking on the admin toolbar. Then you can remove the plugin when done.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/what-the-file/

    Best,

    David

    Plugin Author dmccan

    (@dmccan)

    Hi Rosina,

    I’m hoping you have solved this issue. If not, feel free to post again.

    Best,

    David

    Thread Starter rosina lippi

    (@greenery)

    Everything is working now as it should. I think. Thank you for your help.

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