Help creating recipe page
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Apologies if this has been posted previously but I couldn’t locate best way to do this. I am new to blogging and want to get this right from the start. I have a food and travel blog, OurItalianTable.wordpress.com , that has recipes contained in some of the blogs. I wanted to create an index or page or ??? where I can create a recipe index (Antipasti,etc..) and list the recipes or blogs underneath each area. Can anyone please advise best way to do this? I tried pages and that didn’t quite work. I suppose I could also add it to categories but I am using categories as the overall index and can use this as a fallback if necessary. APOLOGIES again if this is already out there! Any help greatly, greatly appreciated!!
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If you want the list itself to show in your sidebar, you could simply add child categories to “Food”, like you’ve done for the Islands category. If you only want the title of the index, then you’ll have to use a page; what “didn’t quite work” with that?
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Thanks for the reply panaghiotisadam. I tried adding them under categories except the sub-categories are ordering alphabetically. I would like to have them in your typical ‘cookbook’ order – antipasti; soups, main courses, etc. I was just reading about text widgets but not sure I know enough about them to figure out if that is what I should use. :( such a beginner…
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1. Pages can be ordered in a different way, too. In the page editor, you scroll down to “Page Order”, assign numbers, save, then go to the Pages widget, click “Edit”, select Sort by Page order”, save.
2. For a page list of all recipe posts, create a new page (make sure you’re in the VISUAL editor), open a second window in your browser and go to your “Food” category, drag-and-drop the titles of the posts to the page editor. The titles will paste as complete links, and you can easily rearrange them afterwards, type the headings you want etc.
3. Yes, you can use a text widget, too. You can title it “Recipes”, and paste in it the HTML version of the page I describe above (which you can delete afterwards). If you want to do it directly, you need this code for the links to the posts:
<a href="URL_OF_POST_HERE">TITLE_HERE</a>
One of these, for breaking the texts into separate lines:
<p>TEXT_HERE</p>
TEXT_HERE<br />TEXT_HERE
And one of these, for blank separating lines (which one works seems to change every once in a while):
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p align="none"></p>In contrast to the automatic function of categories, solutions 2 & 3 have the drawback that you must update the list manually each time you write a new relevant post.
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