Help with Page Widget please!
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I just started working with WordPress. I am picking it up, but I have a problem that seems like it should be easy to correct. I need to have the pages widget list a different set of pages on each of my Un-parented subject pages.
I have a main page with several UN-PARENTED pages titled A, B, C. I want to click on A and have a Pages Widget that shows an index of pages that relate to A. If I click on B, I want a Pages Widget that relates to B. And same for C.
As far as I can tell, I am limited to one large list of pages and a Pages Widget that is unable to show more than one specified list of pages. I can eliminate pages, but no matter where I place the widget it will always show the list the same. This implies I need to have a massive list of pages that is the same for all of my A, B and C subjects.
Can anyone shed some light on how to accomplish this?
Thank you in advance.
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If this is the blog you are talking about, http://walkerwarner.wordpress.com/ , then that is not possible at wordpress.COM. The pages widget will display the same on all pages.
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As thesacredpath says, the pages widget will display the same on all pages; but a) it can display subpages (usually indented), b) you can write links to the subpages in the parent pages, c) some themes do that automatically, d) maybe what you really need is posts and categories instead of pages. For further advice we need to see the blog.
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Yes, this is what I am afraid of. I did try the categories approach, but it too had shortcomings. I thought the parenting of pages would allow multiple parents and the ability to only show children of the parent where needed. Seems like basic webpage logic if you ask me.
Is there only the widgets that come with wordpress or could it be possible someone else has written a more robust pages widget?
As for the site, I am afraid my company has asked that it be private as it is for internal use. To my detriment, I can not show it.
Thanks though for your help and if anyone can offer another approach to showing sets of information on different pages with their own page hierarchy, I would greatly appreciate it.
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We are very limited on the code that we can use here, and to create a widget that would do what you want would require PHP script (and experience with that) and php script, javascript, flash and iframes are not allowed here due to security concerns. We are also not allowed to use plugins, which would actually be the path to a solution. http://support.wordpress.com/code/
This can be done on self-hosted wordpress blogs (hosted on third-party hosting site) using the software from wordpress.ORG although I don’t know if there is an “off-the-shelf” plugin to do what you want, or whether you would have to create the plugin yourself with PHP scripting. PHP scripting is very powerful, but if you aren’t familiar with all the security ins and outs, you can create a lot of problems for yourself.
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What you can do is exclude subpages from showing in the sidebar and write links to them in the parent pages. Which theme are you using?
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