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Thanks for the detailed feedback. What I am experiencing is the unintended result of adding and organizing this new collection of content, which is extensive relative to my more editorially driven posts. As a matter of strategy I realize I don't need to tag this category of posts. In fact subcategories might be even better.
I originally posted here b/c it relates to using Posts to profile a unique set of content. I'll keep that in perspective when it comes to using other WP features and widgets.
dwogahnMemberI've been assigning tags to all my posts but one category (my project gallery) dominates the tag cloud. Short of deleting the tags associated with posts in this category, are there alternatives? Sub categories?
dwogahnMemberNot only did I get a chance to geek out a bit but the exercise gave me some strategy inspiration as well. This thread has been an invaluable education. Thank you.
dwogahnMemberIt worked! Great instructions. The only thing I needed to do was add the line of code to kill the duplicate image file but we went through that before so it was easily done. Thanks for all your help. I'll leave this thread open for a few days in case my usage turns anything else up.
dwogahnMemberThanks Bill. I removed the category exclusion and did the back and got the following error after making the change:
Server error
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.sellbox.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php?file=functions.php&theme=education&scrollto=1400&updated=true. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.Note sure if the order matters, meaning, I updated the category-35.php file first, then the functions.php. I set everything back the way it was.
Let me know if I should check something else.
dwogahnMemberI'm back with a couple odd problems. Excluding a category ID in Theme Settings doesn't seem to work. Right now I have it set to exclude my #35 (Project Gallery).
I added a file called category-35.php per the above post (#12011). This is set to show 5 full posts at a time. I currently have 49 posts in category 35. When set for 5, I get a 404 error when I click forward to page 7. So, the first 5x6 posts show (30) but that's it. (The same thing happens if I set it to 4 only I can't get to page 8.) If I edit the php file to display 7 posts per page I can page forward through all posts. Same thing if I set it to 8 posts per page.
Right now I have it set to display 6 posts which works until page 7. Page 8 and forward results in a 404.
dwogahnMemberThis reply has been marked as private.dwogahnMemberAdded without problem. I kept your cautionary notes in my changes file just in case that becomes an issue in the future. I think this resolves my current need. Batman, should I need you again, how shall I find you?
dwogahnMemberHaving a little trouble with this. For code placement, am I to add this in the file category-X.php along with the other remove_action lines? Seems so but just confirming.
I'll likely opt to keep things flexible for the future but I'm getting stuck. I think its basic WP stuff.
"...you can add your affiliate links to each image in your media library for this category. "
When I go to Media Library, find the image, I don't see a place to add the affiliate link. I must be missing something. I used Upload/Insert to add the image and dropped the affiliate code in there. This is the one you say to delete, I believe.
dwogahnMemberBill, this is great! Thanks! One tiny thing is that it is adding a second image in category view....perhaps b/c I noted in my instructions that i wanted to keep the 300x300 image. I should have said that I want the default 300x300 only. This image is an affiliate link. How do I show only the image with the Aff link?
I've left it "broken" on my site for now so you can see: http://www.sellbox.com/category/project-gallery
Thanks.
dwogahnMemberI read through the relevant codex (thanks Bill) which helped me understand your suggestion better wpsmith. I also poked around the discussion boards before coming up with what I hope is a clearer idea of what I'm after.
I want to display all categories EXCEPT one category (my #35) as post excerpt. Right now I have the image default as 300x300 and I can leave it that way.
The exception category is my #35. As I understand it this would be a new category template. Here is the look and behavior I'd like to achieve:No date, no author, no comments
300x300 image
Text from full post
I currently show social media tools below each post. I'd like to continue to offer this, if possible.
The post can link to the "full post" although it would look exactly the same.
I'd like to have Category header text. I prefer to show text at the top of the category on the first page only, if possible.Do one of you have something like this you can share? Or some specific direction? Or compromises that get me close? Thanks in advance.
dwogahnMemberThanks wpsmith. I was able to follow these instructions.
In Theme Settings I can choose between "Display post excerpts" OR "Display post content". Is there a way to assign this option by category? i.e. I'd like only one category to "Display post content" and all other categories to "Display post excerpts".
dwogahnMemberI created a category and added several posts.
http://www.sellbox.com/category/project-gallery/A few questions:
Is there a way to make time/author/comments different by category? Or does that involve one of the solutions we discussed in this thread?
Looks like I cannot exclude categories from the Post Categories widget. Is that true?
Can I add a preface to a category? Text that explains what the reader will find when looking at entries in this category.
dwogahnMemberDoh. I found the Screen Options pull down to display my missing page elements. Thanks wpsmith. I never touched this in the other theme so I didn't think about it. Glad it was simple. Thanks for the tutorials too.
dwogahnMemberApparently this was left out of the Education theme design. I also had to use Simple Hooks to add my Analytics code b/c I have no access to header/footer scripts in my theme settings. Here is a list of settings I can control:
Information, Color Style, Default Layout, Nav Settings, Comments and Trackbacks. That's it! I'm using Version: 1.8.2 · Released: June 20, 2012.
I also have the eleven40 installed for another site. All these controls are present in that theme.
I've emailed support.dwogahnMemberAcknowledging my misunderstanding and mixed up response. I've now accomplished several of the items (favicon, footer, post meta...and other housekeeping...thanks for that). I still need to consolidate categories, implement tags; will do. I tried to find the place to exclude categories (thanks Alirat) but it isn't there on Education. But poking around the tutorials I found "How to Create a Category Blog Page" instructions which seems like a solution for my "books" category without impacting my "blog". Would this work in my case? (http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/category-blog-page/).
dwogahnMemberThanks Alirat, I had never noticed that setting before. In this case though I want to show a "book" category, but keep those posts segregated from all the others. I don't want to suppress categories. In terms of layout design, this is an example of one approach I like: http://www.telemachuspress.com/AuthorCatalog.aspx
Now, I don't have to have it as fancy as this which looks to be database driven. I envision the post title being a book name and author, and the post basically a paragraph and image. Bill, to your point about tags I might use genres (thanks for the primer on tags, btw, much clearer now).
I'm not sure if i shared my site but it is sellbox.com. I'd probably re-work the menu bar to show 'Client Library' or some such descriptor that links to these Book posts. I think for now my blog style works and I frankly could get by with a single category and lots of tags. Then have one category for Books. Let me know if that makes sense or you still think one or more category templates is easy to pull off. Thanks.
dwogahnMemberThanks Bill for the thorough explanation. A couple follow-ups.
I like your category=blog suggestion; it seems that with my 90 posts this approach is easier than me trying to figure out how to modify the page template (i'm technical but not a programmer per se). Since this approach consolidates my other categories into essentially one, do I use Tags to classify posts the way I present use categories? I do not use tags now. woops...just re-reading your instructions, maybe the other categories don't matter since I'm telling Genesis to just show "blog" posts?
And in terms of specifying the number of posts to display per page, would it be true that that specification would apply to both the "blog" and the "books" categories? (I cannot define them differently.)
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