Creating a recipe index
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I would like to create a recipe index with food categories in columns and each recipe title a link to the actual recipe in my blog. Any advice on how to format a page like this?
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Create Categories and sub-categories and assign them to posts prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
Then create a custom menu and add the dynamic Categories and sub-categories pages to it and arrange them to create drop-downs.
Please read this first Post vs. Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
(2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.
By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page and have your published posts display on another page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ but doing that does not change what follows.
Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.
This guide will walk you through how to create category pages for your blog, to display groupings of similar posts on pages other than your front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
Create a custom menu
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
Add dynamic categories and sub-categories pages to it
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
Create order and sub-menus (dropdowns)
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusHere’s a link to my post on this http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well.
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The closest thing I can think of to something that will list out posts by category on a page like you described is the display posts shortcode:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/Use it sparingly though, if you used it for a ton of categories on one page, it might overload the page too much.
Try adding it for only a few main categories and then maybe link out to additional pages if you want to add more.
About columns, there are a couple ways you could do that, one would be to use tables, but another would be to wrap each set of content you want in a div with a custom class name and then use CSS to adjust the widths for them and float them left. Try adding the shortcodes first and then we can help with columns if you still want to make that adjustment. Given the width of pages for the On a Whim theme is already pretty narrow, I’m not sure you’ll need the columns anyway.
Aside: http://slyrooster.com/ is a great domain name. :)
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