Eighties Theme Sub-categories
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Looking for a bit of directions on menu configuration on the Eighties Theme.
I am having problems with items that I’m tagging into sub-categories appearing on the same level as their parent category.
This is what I’m trying to achieve: I would like to be able to click on my portfolio – have it take me to a landing page for my P.O.P, Rebranding, and eventually other projects – then click on one of those – and it takes me to another landing page where I can display various businesses – then click on those business and it brings up a gallery of their work.
Right now anything I put into P.O.P. and Rebranding, appears on the same level, and doesn’t look clean and makes the P.O.P. and Rebranding links irrelevant.
Can someone assist me on this?
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Hi,
Here’s your default portfolio: https://vectorfuse.wordpress.com/portfolio/. The “Portfolio” menu item is presently linked to the URL https://vectorfuse.wordpress.com/portfolio-delete/, the URL of a non-existent static page.
This is what I’m trying to achieve: I would like to be able to click on my portfolio – have it take me to a landing page for my P.O.P, Rebranding, and eventually other projects – then click on one of those – and it takes me to another landing page where I can display various businesses – then click on those business and it brings up a gallery of their work.
I think I understand what you are attempting to do. WordPress.com allows you to create sub-types on the Project Types page by assigning one type as the parent of another. Allowing creation of project sub-types tends to suggest that, as is the case with post categories and subcategories, you should be able to display a portfolio project sub-type archives page. But you can’t. I noticed this months ago, and have been meaning to start a topic on it since then. I thought maybe I’d missed something, but my tests today confirm what I found then.
Illustration #1:
If you create post categories and subcategories, and assign them to published posts, you can then display categories and subcategories archives pages. Example 1:category page:
https://whatchacalldat.wordpress.com/category/rebranding
subcategory page:
https://whatchacalldat.wordpress.com/category/rebranding/methodsThe subcategory appears as an extension on the category page URL. Such category and the subcategory pages will display if each category or subcategory is assigned to at least one post.
Now, let’s try to do the same thing with portfolio project types and sub-types. If you create two portfolio project types at the Project Types page, and assign one as the parent of the other, you will then have a relationship analogous to that of the post category and subcategory illustrated above.
So, it follows that you should be able to display the project type and project sub-type archives pages. The form of a project type archives page, according to the Portfolio support page, would be http://yourgroovysite.wordpress.com/project-type/project-type-slug/. However, the URL of a subtype archives page always results in a 404 error.
Example 2:
project type archives page: http://whatchacalldat.wordpress.com/project-type/rebranding/ — This will display the archives page if the project type “rebranding” is assigned to at least one project.
project subtype archives page: http://whatchacalldat.wordpress.com/project-type/rebranding/methods — This URL will result in a 404 error even if the project type “rebranding” is assigned to at least one project, the project type “rebranding” is assigned as the parent of the project sub-type”methods,” and the sub-type “methods” is assigned to at least one project.
On the other hand, a custom menu allows you to artificially create relationships that don’t exist otherwise. So, if you properly nest sub-types below types, and sub-sub-types below sub-types, the custom menu should work properly, taking you to a sub-type category page though its URL look the same as as a category page.
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Right now anything I put into P.O.P. and Rebranding, appears on the same level
I think I get what you’re saying now. A sub-type archives page will not display only sub-type archives. It displays the same projects as the type archives page (sub-type = sub-type + type). Is that it?
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Perhaps I got that last backwards. Is it that all of the sub-type projects appear in the type archives page? In my example, “Methods” is a sub-type of “Branding.” You might not want projects with the sub-type “Methods” to appear in the “Branding” (type) archives page, but since it is a sub-type it will.
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