Menus: selective category-based sticky posts / pages
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I’m very excited by my new collections theme that has opened up some new possibilities for my blog’s presentation of content.
1. I have a sticky post that I always want to show first on the blog home. Fine, I’ve done that, no probs.
2. I have a category-based menu which, when selected, pulls up an entirely different set of posts. Fine that’s how it should be. HOWEVER I want to show a different sticky post to (1.) in this set of results. I appreciate I can make this second post sticky BUT THEN it also appears as sticky on the main/home list of posts…which I really don’t want to happen. It must be a POST and not a PAGE.
3. I want to do the same thing as (2.) but for a 3rd category-based menu.I don’t think this can be done – so the challenge is there!! I guess the solution lies in being able to exclude any post from the main post list
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I don’t think it can be done. The main way we exclude posts from showing on the main page is to edit the date so it appears to be very old. But when you make things Sticky you override that. Your only solution is to keep editing the datestamp on those posts so they appear to be newest. You WILL forget and mess it up, guaranteed. It’s just too labour intensive.
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Not on category pages, I’m afraid. Someone else might have another workaround, but I can’t think of one.
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Excluding a post from the main posts page is easy when you have the Custom Design upgrade. But there’s no such thing as sticky on a category page: stickies work on the main posts page only. Why exactly are you interested in this?
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Good question indeed!
The pretty call-to-action post on http://blog.kothea.com/ is what I would like to replicate across all the menus created from the following CATEGORIES:
http://blog.kothea.com/category/the-business-of-interior-design/interior-designer-resources/
http://blog.kothea.com/category/re-blogs/interior-design-ideas-we-love/
http://blog.kothea.com/category/re-blogs/thoughtful-musing-from-interior-designers/ -
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Just an FYI- When you change post dates, if your site has been indexed by search engines, your visitors will encounter 404 NOT FOUND errors when clicking through search results to get to that post (as I just did).
I’d add that “Request Sample Swatches” call to action to a widget in the left sidebar instead. That makes it a permanent feature and with the new visibility settings, you can choose which pages to make it appear on. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/
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I guess that “2 column” in the description was misleading. (In my case, also more coffee was needed.)
You do have optional widget areas at the bottom of single posts and pages.
And if you are using a Custom Menu, you can add that post to your navbar.
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To be precise, there is a left sidebar (obviously), but this sidebar isn’t the widget area. Now, when you have the Custom Design upgrade you can use CSS editing to reposition a widget. So the real problem isn’t the fact that the theme has footer widgets instead of sidebar widgets, the problem is it doesn’t display the widgets on category pages.
How about using a different grid-layout theme, for instance Suburbia?
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yes, I’ve done it for the post based bottom widgets.
I am using a custom menu. in order to add a similarly stand-out looking button I have to add it as a graphic (like the fb/twitter/g+). that’s a bit hard!! but it’s on my list of things to do
I do too have the css thingy (which I need to add transparency to enable the fb/twitter/g+ thing to be seen)
I’ve just spent days doing this theme!!! i’ll have a look at suburbia
ty all!!!
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hmmm.
that’s annoying.suburbia looks like it would have been pretty good (perfect) fuctionally.
it doesn’t quite look as nice…just works better.
a very close run thing. would probably have chosen it in hindsight
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a) Personally I prefer the look of Suburbia. What is it you don’t like in it?
b) Are you going to publish many new posts on those category pages? As long as the post you’re interested in is on page 1 of a category page, I think I can make it show up first via CSS.
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@kothea – Don’t beat up on yourself! There’s so many themes out there now that trying to narrow it down to the one or two that appeal to you and your content and then exploring all possibilities that a theme has to offer (even without the Custom Design upgrade) can take quite a lot of time. Each of my sites’ themes is still teaching me new tricks. :)
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