Two categories with different contents

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    auntjenny · Member ·

    I have a recipe blog that has the typical recipe Categories. I’d like to have another list called something like “Recipes from…” and then each category would be the family member from which the recipe originated, and perhaps another one called “Recipes containing…” in which each category would be an ingredient.

    I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to do that that’s as simple as a Category widget. If I just add another category, they both have the same contents.

    Is there an easy way to do this?

    Here’s the blog: Family Recipe Box

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    I’m not understanding the problem. Add the appropriate category to each recipe and then when you click on Recipes from all that person’s recipes will come up. If the two lists are identical, maybe that’s because the same people use the same ingredients all the time.

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    @raincoaster: She means that she’d like to have three distinct sets of categories showing separately in the sidebar, but if she adds a second Category Widget she gets the same (complete) list of categories.

    @auntjenny: As you saw, the Categories Widget displays all your categories, so you can’t do what you want by adding a second one.

    The easy thing to do is to copy the content of your “Recipe Index” page (from the html editor), create two new pages, paste the content in them and rearrange it (by member and by ingredient).

    If you really want them in your sidebar, like categories, it’s rather complicated. You’ll have to create several pages* (for each member and for each ingredient), write the links to the relevant recipes in them, then add two Text Widgets (naming them “Recipes from…” and “REcipes containing…”) and write the links to those pages in them.

    *They must be made child pages to your “Recipe Index” page, so that they don’t show in your header.

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Why not use the Categories Widget for “Recipes from” and the Tag Widget for “Recipes containing”?

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    auntjenny · Member ·

    Thank you.

    pana – I like like your suggestions and considered those, but I want something to work automatically like Categories does by simply selecting the category(s) when creating the post.

    justjennifer – The theme I use (Digg 3) only has a Tag cloud, which I think is unsuitable for this purpose. It doesn’t have a list of tags. Thanks though for the suggestion… I like it.

    Jen

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