Generate a list of articles by category
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I am trying to help a client migrate their site from http://www.oztorah.com (which is self-hosted using CuteNews as the CMS) to wordpress.com. We are basically done but the client has a requirement to be able to produce a list of all articles by category.
For example, on the old site: http://www.oztorah.com/ask/archive/archive.php will give a list of all “Ask the Rabbi” articles. The closest I can get on WordPress.com is to use a link like: http://oztorah.wordpress.com/category/ask-the-rabbi/
This shows the full text of the article. I can add a <more> to the top of the article, but it still wont give a list.
Have I reached the limitation of wordpress.com or is there some CSS, plugin or other Wizardry I can resort to?
I’d like to avoid going to a wordpress.org solution just to meet this one last requirement.
Thanks,
ambanmba
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ambanmba
It is theme dependent. Here is a list of themes which show only titles in category and archive pages:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/full-posts-in-archive-pages/You could use the excerpt function to display only titles by typing only the title into the excerpt box of each post:
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waynesmallman
The site linked to your name is not a wordpress.COM blog. What I’m describing is a function of the themes here at wp.COM. It’s not a plugin, which we can’t use at any rate.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
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@waynesmallman, “google” the name of the themes listed in the blog posts at “wpbtips.” Most themes here have self-hosted equivalents that you can download and use although they may have gone through several revisions since the versions used here. Use the search term form ” theme name wordpress theme ” without the quote marks.
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Thanks for that.
So, I found a theme that does the trick… now the question is – how close can I make http://oztorahtest1.wordpress.com/ look like http://oztorah.wordpress.com/ just by using CSS.
I’m a CSS novice and while I can get the fonts and spacing ok… I’m having trouble with:
1) The Navbar at the top
2) The “look” of the side bar (with the boxes around the items)I tried copying things from one CSS sheet to another, including renaming the elements so that they match, but it doesn’t come out right.
Thanks,
ambanmba
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Why not just use the theme that http://oztorah.wordpress.com/ is using which is contempt? Turning Vigilance into Contempt is a lot of work and what would be the point?
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The reason is that Vigilance allows for an archive to appear as a list like so:
http://oztorahtest1.wordpress.com/category/ask-the-rabbi/
I know I can do this by some easy changes to the underlying HTML in Contempt — but alas, not on .COM… Trying to avoid going the .ORG route.
Thanks,
ambanmba
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You can probably get close if you have good CSS skills, but you will not likely “clone” contempt.
And another thing, there is no HTML in wordpress themes, only PHP script files. Everything is PHP script.
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I meant “underlying PHP” in my previous comment… I actually have something working on my self-hosted test site… it’s quite easy to remove the PHP code that generates the full text articles.
I suppose a suggestion to improve the .COM site, would be a way for users to pay a fee to submit alterations to (or entirely new) themes. The fee would cover the cost of someone at WP.COM confirming that the page is OK, and it would also provide a bit of a money earner for you guys as you increase the available themes/variants.
Thanks for the help…
ambanmba
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This is a multi-user platform which means that everyone shares the same underlying theme and wordpress files. If you were allowed to change something on a theme it would change it for everyone using that theme. Editing themes here will never happen unless wordpress completely rewrites and restructured the entire system, and I doubt that is going to happen.
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There IS an option to use an entirely original theme: the VIP program. But you don’t qualify unless you get about a half-million hits a month AND are willing to pay several hundred dollars monthly. This is the kind of hosting CNN and Weekly World News pay for.
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