having trouble with formatting page
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I am using a greyzed theme. The main things I want to blog about at first are in the left footer.
Under those catagorys it says no catagories. How to I create sub-catagories that link to particular blog posting.Example:
Television
what to watch (links to my blog posts that discuss what to watch)
what no to watch (links to my my blog posts that discuss not what to watch)Movies
what to see (links my blog posts about what to see)
what to avoid (links my blog posts about what not to see)Politics
about topic or issue (links to my blog posts about a topic or issue)
I may add more catagories or subcatagories to the ones I already have but I just am stumped at this point.
Thanks for any help
Blog url: http://mediawarriorpoet.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You haven’t added any categories, you have added the Categories widget three times with different titles. You add that widget once only, and it will automatically display your categories once you publish posts and assign categories to them.
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Thanks for the help.
I still can’t set it up the way I want (the way I described above) but I am starting and that is better than nothing. I took the catagory widget out and it really makes no difference in the set up. When it was there on my home page it still indicates that i have no catagories in the bullet point even though I do now.
Catagory(name in widget)
Sub catagory (Title) – click on that to link to my blog post.I guess if I can’t formatt the blog the way I want I will just write in it and see how it goes.
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1) But now you put it back (in the footer area), this time correctly. Since you want it to display subcategories, make sure you have checked the option “Show hierarchy”.
2) To turn a category into a subcategory, you select a parent for it (for instance, your category “what to see” needs to have “Movies” as its parent).
3) Notice my previous reply: the Categories widget “will automatically display your categories once you publish posts and assign categories to them“. If you have created a category in Posts > Categories (instead of creating it while editing a post), it won’t show up in the widget unless there’s at least one published post filed under that category. Makes sense: categories are supposed to be groups of posts, so there’s no point displaying a category if there are no posts filed under that category yet.
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Thanks again I am getting closer to what I want to do.
If this is possible please let me know. Can I move the catagory widget to the top of the page. Not the very top where the black area is and it says Home and A message to all you mere mortals out there, but to the the area on the page where the lined paper starts.
It does not look like the page has that flexibility but I just thought I would ask.
Yoy have been very helpful and thank you again.
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You’re welcome.
You can’t move the widget to the white area, you can move it to the top of the sidebar.
I’m not sure you’re getting closer to what you want to do, because I’m seeing “What you should be watching” as a post while you said it should be a subcategory. My general advice is you’re starting the wrong way: you’re trying to structure a nonexistent thing. I suggest you write and publish a few posts first.
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I think you are correct. I am to worried about structure and not content.
I think I will just blog and have some fun and see how it goes.Thanks for all your help.
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