dividing “pages” listings into smaller categories
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At the side is the category “Pages” with a list of all my pages. Trouble is, some of my pages will be passworded while others will be open. I’d like to subdivide to clearly show the reader which pages are unlocked without the reader having to click on each to find out.
One way would be to subdivide “Pages” into locked and unlocked. Can I edit the template thusly? I get the feeling I can’t…
Another way would be to have a key logo before the locked ones… but the formatting doesn’t seem to allow me to copy the symbol from wingdings.
Other advice?
Thx…
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Blogs are not websites. Pages sit outside the structure. They are for static content. They are not dynamic as posts are. They are not dynamic as webpages in a website are. They cannot be assigned to categories. They can be marked “private” but cannot be password protected. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/a-post-and-a-page/
And the FAQs blog explains how posts can be password protected.
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/post-options-post-password/This thread will describe 2 choices available for personalizing themes at wordpress.com and the option for total control over your blog template which is available only through downloading a free blog template from http://wordpress.org
Suffice to say that wordpress.com blogs are all on the same multi-user blogging platform and the underlying php code of the templates cannot be edited. If it could be then the edits made by one blogger would effect all other users of the same theme.
If you want total control over your blog template ie. the ability to edit it, and/or the ability you monetize your blog then a wordpress.com blog is not for you.
WordPress.com blogs and wordpress.org blogs run on different software, the services are different and the policies applied are different. This “please read me first before posting to the forum” thread explains these differences https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=3700&replies=1
This is your third post to the support forum in the past hour and I’m beginning to sense from the nature of your questions that you may benefit from making a decision as to whether or not downloading a free blog template from http://wordpress.org may suit your purposes better than a wordpress.com blog would.
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download the .org template?
but i’m so close to finally figuring out this one! :)
thanks for your continued help. i think the first half of your response misunderstands my question, but you do confirm that, as i suspected, i cannot further edit pages down.
my question: i’m interested in showing the reader that a certain page is locked without them having to click on it. is there a logo i can place beside the page to signify this?
thx. :)
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The only easy way to do this would be to find a logo of say a small key (search google for that maybe) and then manually create list of pages in sidebar with text widget. Say you have about, projects and passwords as the pages.
The list in sidebar (with text widget) might contain something like this:
<ul> <li><a href="http://beatthetest.wordpress.com/about">About</a><li> <li><a href="http://beatthetest.wordpress.com/projects">Projects</a><li> <li><img src="http://beatthetest.wordpress.com/uploads/02/2007/key.jpg"> - <a href="http://beatthetest.wordpress.com/passwords">Passwords</a><li> </ul>That would produce a list with your pages and the passwords page is protected, so we placed the image of a key before it. Not the best solution, but would work I guess. Obviously, I assumed you found an image you wanted, called it key.jpg and uploaded it to your site through a page or post.
I don’t know….
Trent
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