Aggregating content based on tag

[coachrichard]

I think i recall there being a way to create a menu that brings up a page with all content that has a particular tag or category in it. I think it was independent of the theme, meaning it used an archive page perhaps to build the page based on one of these meta data fields. Does anyone recall how to do this?
For instance, I want to create a contributor page that I have in the menu, that automatically surfaces a list of people who are tagged as contributors in the user type. Ideally this page would bring a name, gravatar and abstract or intro of the bio. Once you clicked, it went to a page devoted to them and all their posts.

Any ideas?

[Victor Font]

In the WordPress menu builder you can create a category menu. As an alternative, you can use query_args in a custom field to filter an archive page, : http://victorfont.com/use-query_args-filter-wordpress-posts/

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[coachrichard]

I see those instructions now here. http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/category-blog-page/
What I was hoping to do was to add an image and some introductory text as well, but this method only seems to append the posts from the category to the page, and not content from the editor or featured image.

[coralseait]

You'll want to then look into either:

a) hooks and filters to mod the output via some code in functions.php

or

b) template hierarchy to build your own template for the tag / category which includes the content you need. You can also use a custom template which is somewhat similar but uses the drop down in the editor to select the template the page uses.

Generally, I'm more of a fan of using the template hierarchy as this keeps functions.php cleaner and encapsulates all your display and logic for a given 'feature' and keeps less settings in the editor which users could change (although you can mask it) accidentally.

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[Victor Font]

What theme are you using? The developer may have deactivated the features you want in functions.php.

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[coachrichard]

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[coachrichard]

Hi Coral Sea IT,
While i am not against constructing new templates or creating function files for child themes, i am more inclined to simplifying my efforts from a maintenance perspective by using what the CMS offers "out of the box," enhanced by widgets, plugins, hooks and short-codes.

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