Transferring my multi-paged blog to word press
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I currently have my blog set up on blogger and have it working as essentially 8 blogs with one main page. I would like to come over to wordpress and simplify the tangled HTML life I have been living to date using what I understand to be categories.
The ideal life would allow me to use custom headers for all the pages (cooking header, recipe header) and the “home” page/feed display all posts.
I haven’t created anything on wordpress yet. If I can create my page in this manner or something similar, I am in!
Here’s my blog so you have an idea of the type of structure I would like (with less hassle and knots) http://clutzycooking.blogspot.com/
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I think you’d be able to achieve the desired effect using a custom menu with category pages. Essentially you’ll be able to create menu links for different categories, and then display the feed specifically for that category under the relevant link, while your main feed containing all categories is on the home page. Read these for more information: http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/If you’d prefer an index of posts to appear on a page the display posts shortcode can also work, though it can only display up to 100 posts. http://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/
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I believe I would prefer the first option. So I can alternate the headers on each category page? Or they are all static/match my main page?
As you can see on my blog page, I am big into custom headers and wouldn’t want to lose those…
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With the custom menu you can have as many static pages and as many category pages as you want, and you can title them whatever you want them to be. You can, for argument’s sake, have a page for the “Recipes” category, but the menu link will be “Fun with food”. You can even rename the link to you Home page in the menu. You can reorder items and create sub-pages by dragging and dropping. It’s really easy to use.
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And they would all link into my main page?
Perfect! Thank you so SO much, this sounds ideal! I will start playing with this now :) -
And they would all link into my main page?
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by that. You’ll have a home page. That will contain your main feed, i.e. ALL posts will appear there. But then you can also have category pages, i.e. only posts in a specific category will appear there. And the actual links in the menu you can name whatever you want without changing where they point and without worrying about having to write your own html instructions.
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That was what I meant. “IE ALL posts will appear there”.
I was never concerned about naming the links in the menu- assumed that this would be customizable. Was concerned about each category page being able to have an individual, custom, header when you opened each page. Again, see how my current blog connects between cooking pages and photography pages if I am just sounding like a complete loon at this point…
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Okay, I misunderstood. I’m not sure about custom headers for category pages. Static pages and individual post pages can have those, but it varies greatly from theme to theme. It might be possible using CSS, but I don’t know.
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Roger that! Thanks anyway for trying and a HUGE thanks for being so responsive!
… anyone else know if this is possible or if I should save myself the headache and abort the mission to move to WP and find another platform that may work?
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You can try asking directly in the CSS customization forum if this is possible. Keep in mind that you will need the custom design upgrade to make changes to your blog using CSS. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform
Also, if you create static pages, rather than dynamic category pages, and then use the shortcode I mentioned in my first reply, you can have the basic functionality of category pages along with custom headers of a static page (provided you choose a theme that allows it). Customizing the shortcode to do exactly what you want is just a bit more complicated than simply setting up a category page through a custom menu, but you can achieve basically the same effect.
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