How to show posts under each category?
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Hello gurus,
I need to show some posts under each category, in whatever format, so when my user expand each category he will see most recent posts under that category.
It seems WP.Com lacks this ability but I am just wondering if there is any work around besides switching theme.
I am currently using Andreas04 and I currently do not want to switch to another theme. What other theme has this feature built-in?
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This is not a theme related issue. Simply go here > Appearance > Widgets and place a Categories widget in your sidebar in order for posts to display. There must be at least one published post in a Category before the Category will be displayed in your sidebar.
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Maybe I didn’t explain my question clearly? I know how to display each category, I want to show most recent (or top viewed) posts in each category and show it when reader expand it.
For example, I have categories: Car, School, under Car I have three posts Benz, BMW, VOLVO, under School I have posts Elementary, Secondary and University.
I want to show my readers the post titles under each category, so when they expand category Car, they see three posts Benz, BMW, VOLVO underneath, and so on.
Thank you.
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WordPress.com does not have any expanding category widget. You could put the categories into the top navigation and then have the sub categories as submenu items under them.
Car
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@3rreadingclub
To create a custom menu and do as thesacredpath suggests read this carefully. There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages.A custom menu allows you to display Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages and custom links in your custom menu as well.
These are the how-to instructions:
1. You create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
2. You add the Categories you want to display and arrange them in the order you want.
3. Then you add and drop and drag the sub-categories below the appropriate Categories, and when you have everything arranged in the menu that you want you save the menu.
4. Go to the “theme location” module at upper left on the menu page. Select your custom menu name from the pull-down labeled “primary location.” Click the save button in that module.
5. Refresh your browser so that it isn’t possibly pulling a cached page, and view see your new menu with Parent pages and dropdowns to sub-pages.
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Are you talking about creating the hierachy in menu? No, you misunderstood me again. I am talking about the category widget, in the theme I chose, I put the widget in the sidebar.
Thank you.
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Both thesacredpath and I are aware of what you are talking about. You want an expanding category widget. There is no such widget for WordPress.com blogs.
thesacredpath offered an alternative ie. a custom menu and I provided instructions for creating one. If you don’t want to create a custom menu then that’s fine with us.
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thank you timethief and thesacredpath, you guys are so knowledgeable, i admire you.
just another question:
What other theme has this feature built-in?
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