Showing only posts from one category on a separate page

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  darkaeon · Member · Sep 14, 2011 at 4:17 pm

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  Hey folks,

  Wondering if anyone could give me any advice at all?

  Long-time blogger, but not overly technical with the actual layout of my blog. I blog about a wide variety of topics, however one of the things that my blog is rather well known for is musical theatre reviews. At the moment, I use the Twenty-Eleven theme, as I like the Showcase template for my main blog page. What I would also like to do is have a second page that purely displays / links back through to whole (or excepted) posts with content with the category ‘Musical Theatre Review’. Whilst I’d love to re-use Showcase, I am aware that I cannot do this, as it just templates the original page, so just a plain page that has the excerpts would suffice I think…

  Is this possible at all? I am struggling to find a way to make this possible, and so any help would be very much appreciated!

  Best, and thanks for any help!
  Gari

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  timethief · Member · Sep 14, 2011 at 4:25 pm

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  I think you ought to consider creating a custom menu. A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and custom links in your custom menu as well. You choose the order in which to display the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide.

  Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  What’s critical is:
  (1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  (2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than 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. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.

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  darkaeon · Member · Sep 14, 2011 at 4:26 pm

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  Thank you ever so much timethief!

  I had just been fiddling around with this myself, and I agree that it seems the best solution – and to think, I scoffed and thought I’d never use custom menus when they were announced!! ;)

  Thanks a mil!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 14, 2011 at 4:37 pm

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  The ability to create custom menus was a huge step forward for WordPress bloggers. You’re welcome. :)