How do I display a list of all that is in my ‘categories’?
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Using the cat widget I can show that cat “Current Schtuff” has 5 entries/post/etc. When I click on this, my theme or the widget only displays the latest entry (offering “Previous/Next” linkages – archaic). Is there a way to make it, ask it, beg it to offer a list of all entries in the category? Elsewise it forces unwarranted (or unwanted, to be specific) navigating. The fewer licks the better. Is there another, better way of doing this?
(Oh, those pesky neophyte bloggers. What are we to do?)
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Husdal,
Close, but no cigar. Yes, now clicking cats shows list as requested. Unfortunately, Front Pages now shows as many posts. If I want to list, merely list, all 67 posts in Cat A or Cat B, I certainly don’t want all 67 posts to appear on Front Page.
Am I missing a better way of doing this or should the cat widget coding be revisited?
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This is theme specific.Most will produce only a limited number of posts in a list in the given category and require that you keep clicking for previous posts.
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Gotta be a better way / fix / resolve / change / better way.
So, then, themes are not just CSS configs but rely upon underlying scripting as well?
Gotta be a better way / fix / resolve / change / better way.
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Perhaps you do not understand what CSS is. CSS is only a styling document. It does not provide functionality. It simple tells the browser how to style the elements in the markup. Without the markup CSS does absolutely nothing. It might as well be a taco.
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Yes, as a 13 year vet of web design, I like tacos . . . and CSS. Not so certain about templated CMS’s yet.
Timethief claims my issue is ‘theme specific.’ So I suppose my query is are themes just CSS. Or are themes CSS ‘and’ scripting/ coding / php / javascript, etc.
Actually, that’s secondary to my original query of:
How does one display a list of titles in a cat without making all of the titles visible on the Front Page? Can it be done? (Unlikely to be done with CSS, it being specific to style only.)
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Er, make that . . . display all cat titles without making all of the Posts themselves visible on the Front Page?
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Not as yet, but you can bet your bottom dollar I shall . . .
Just wondering if someone, as did hudsal, might just say, “Hey Hnucklehead, push this button.”
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A theme cannot just be CSS. CSS cannot create a web page. CSS is simply a document that tells the browser how to stylize and place the different elements in the underlying markup. Without the underlying markup (HTML) CSS does nothing at all.
WordPress themes are written in PHP script. That is what allows them to be dynamic and instantly add changes or additions (posts, pages, comments, sidebar widgets).
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There should be such a button, but there isn’t. The setting husdal suggested currently applies to all dynamic pages (main posts page, category pages, archive pages etc.). And it’s not theme-dependent: dynamic pages display the number of posts you set under Settings>Reading, no matter what the theme.
If you’re not happy with category pages displaying the same number of posts as your blog front, you can either set a static page as your front, or remove the Categories widget and create a list of posts per category in a static page (or in several static pages, one for each category).
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@panaghiotisadam
Thanks for the correction re: not theme dependent and the clarification and the work around information – bookmarked! -
Thief,
The document you sight above, now digested, clarifies that I need to “host my own,” thus cobbling out my own button. So the answer I seek is that to enhance functionality, specifically the functionality I require, that being listing all cat titles but not all posts in cat on Front Page, I need the “core” PHP and HTML, and . . . likely somebody’s well rendered plug-in, eh?. Kinda figured. But, it was worth asking.
Later kids.
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@timethief: You’re welcome. But let me add that my “correction” wasn’t entirely accurate either: there are no exceptions re category pages, but there are a few special cases re the blog front in particular (Hemingway, for instance, displays the two most recent posts regardless of the posts-per-page setting).
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Thanks everybody. Knew if might come down to hosting, but, hey, a man can dream (or a woman. Or of a woman, anyway . . . )
Thanks kids.
Color me Resolved.
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