Publishing Posts to a Page that’s not the homepage

  • brulosopher

    (@brulosopher)


    6 months ago

    I’ve been trying to figure this issue out for that last few days, and I cannot find any solutions, hence my coming here. Please let me know if there’s a more appropriate place to ask about this and I’ll delete my post immediately.

    I currently use the Suits theme and would strongly prefer to keep it that way, as it’s familiar to my audience and works well for our purposes. However, my team and I would like to create a sort of secondary blog embedded within our main site that can be accessed via a link in our header menu.

    I went ahead and created a new Page called “Blogs” on my site, but I cannot figure out a way to publish posts to it without changing the way my entire site operates. I thought there might be a plugin for this, but I’ve been unable to find anything.

    Is there a solution for this issue, or will I be stuck publishing these secondary blog posts as Pages that get couched under the Blogs page?

    Thank you so much!!

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

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  • threadi

    (@threadi)

    If I understand your request correctly, you are already using posts for your website. Now you would like to write your own posts for a specific theme that are only visible on one page of your website and not everywhere, like the existing posts?

    This can be solved in WordPress with the help of categories. You can assign categories to posts. In the output on the pages, you then have to choose which posts in which categories should be displayed or not displayed. So you assign the posts for your new subpage to a category that you specify in the newly created “Blogs” page as a restriction for the list of posts.

    So much for the theory. Now comes the challenge that you have a theme that is obviously quite outdated. So I don’t know whether it offers you the option of displaying lists of posts in this form. Normally I would advise you to ask the theme’s support forum, in your case this one here: https://www.ads-software.com/themes/suits/ – but it’s somehow “dead”. You can of course try, I just don’t know if you’ll get an answer there.

    Since the theme is so old, I don’t know what you’re using to edit your pages. Is it the Block Editor or still the Classic Editor? I can’t see it clearly in your website right now. With the Block Editor you could use the Query Block as a solution: https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/query-loop-block/ – with the Classic Editor you would have to see if anyone offers a shortcode for something like this. In both cases, you have to hope that your theme supports some form of output.

    Alternatively, you would have to look for a new theme. I think there are now many that can look like your current one.

    Thread Starter brulosopher

    (@brulosopher)

    Thank you, this is all great information! You’re not the first to point out how outdated the theme I’m using is, and while I’ve spent many hours looking for a new theme, nothing has matched all the stuff I appreciate about Suits. Still, that may be the most effective route.

    When the Block Editor rolled out years ago, I tried using it but found it to be quite confusing, so I downloaded a Classic Editor plugin. Since then, I’ve toyed around with Blocks, but always end up going back to Classic. Call me old school, I guess.

    I’m realizing it may just be time to update my theme, my site… my life!

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