Single Blog, Mulitple Topics?

  • I tried searching for this, but I couldn’t really find a clear answer.

    So I have a blog at blog.mikejoseph.net. It’s been going great, and I’ve been having a lot of fun. Now, I’d like to expand it to include different topics such as “Family”, “Photos”, things like that. I know you can create multiple “Pages”, but you only seem to be able to have one area for blog entries.

    I would like all of the topics to be on the one domain name and WP database, so they can all be controlled and edited from a single dashboard. I would like to have each topic be a tab at the bottom of my theme (see above link), so the user can easily navigate the different topics. It would also be nice if each topic can have its own RSS feed.

    What’s the best/easiest way to do this?

    Thanks!

    -Mike

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  • Using categories are going to be your easiest option as they are able to provide everything that you want to do.

    Jeremy

    (@jeremiahhenson)

    Like JarretCade said, categories will work easiest. You’ll link to archives instead of pages, but your visitors don’t have to know that. Wherever you want your blog’s navigation to show, call up wp_list_categories instead of wp_list_pages.

    If you’ve used categories already, you’ll have to change them all to be subcategories.

    Thread Starter darkhelmet46

    (@darkhelmet46)

    Ok, but being a bit of a WordPress n00b, could you go into a little more detail? ??

    Thread Starter darkhelmet46

    (@darkhelmet46)

    Beuller? ??

    So I have a draft of a page created, and I have a test subcategory created, but I can’t find any place to tell WordPress that only posts with a particular category get published on a particular page. Do I need to edit a config file somewhere or something?

    -Mike

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Pages don’t generally hold Posts. They are separate things.

    When you put a post into a category, it automatically goes onto that categories page as well.

    Like this is all your “Tech” posts: https://blog.mikejoseph.net/?cat=23

    Thread Starter darkhelmet46

    (@darkhelmet46)

    Thanks, Otto, that got me pointed in the right direction. I started digging into how to make the navigational buttons point to categories instead of pages, and turns out all I had to do was RTFM on the theme I was using:

    2. User Options
    By editing useroptions.php using the Theme Editor, you can make some really cool
    modifications to the theme. Here’s the rundown:
    # Option to Display Pages or Categories along TaskBar
    # Option to show/not show Child Page/Category Popups
    # Option to set the default sub-theme.
    # Option to give visitors a random theme on first visit
    # Option to show QuickLaunch area. See useroptions.php for more info.
    # Option to “Roll Off” the Task Bar buttons if you have too many pages to fit.
    # Option to change clock to 24 hour (military) format

    I should edit my “Technician’s Prayer” post to read: “And the resourcefulness to use Google or RTFM when all else fails.”

    Thank you all who replied to this.

    -Mike

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