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Forgive me if I sound like a rube, but I'm new to wordpress and just recently installed the StudioPress Magazine Theme at http://www.joeinsider.com. This is a sports magazine site (or will be) that covers eight towns in my area.
My homepage is in a blog format and I created eight individual pages for each town. My goal, through using categories and tags, was to filter content from the homepage to the specific town pages. I set up a category for each town. However, I'm seeing that every piece of content on the homepage is flowing to each town page no matter what combination of categories and tags I use.
Can someone help me figure out how to flow homepage content to the proper secondary pages? Thanks so much.
http://www.joeinsider.comWill each of the cities contain the same type of news, i.e., baseball, football, basketball, etc.? You could create each city as a "Category" also. Then when you are writing your posts - you would select the appropriate City and the appropriate sport. You could use the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified Plugin to narrow down your specific Categories on to the home page. So only news from a specific town would be on the home, but once clicked, it would go to a listing of all of the blogs for that city. In the widget there is a setting that you can select that would show something like, "More from Burr Oak" or "More from Centreville".
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Yes, each city will have all the same sports. Good to hear I was at least on the right track. I started creating categories for every sport (those were tags before), and I'm also creating subpages for every sport in the dropdown menu of each city, and those seem to be working right (filtering out everything that's not supposed to be there). However, when you click on the page link for every city you still get every piece of content that was on the main page (even ones for other cities). I've since deleted all but one test content piece and I'm creating new ones to see if they're filtered correctly. I'll definitely look into that widget. Thanks.
No.... you don't want to use those Page links. Create a category for each of the cities and attach those to the navigation. This way when clicked - every news story you publish for that city will show up. It won't work with Pages.
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This is where being a WordPress rookie is really biting me in the ass. I really don't have a clue what you mean, and I apologize. What you're trying to explain is probably pretty basic. ... So I should delete all the links in the dropdown menu under each city?
I created categories for each city already. I think what I'm not able to figure out is what you mean about attaching those to the navigation. Right now I am using those categories in each post but it is sending every story to every city page for some reason.
Ok, Ok, Ok, I understand what you're saying now and I have it working. Each city's news is now showing up on it's own page. Second question: Can I put a category list in a sidebar on each of those city pages that breaks down news by sport?
Yes, you should install the Genesis Simple Sidebars. Create a new sidebar for each city. Then go to back to the Categories. Select a city and you will now see that you can select that cities' side at you created. Then go to the widget area and will see each cities' respective sidebar.
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Nice. I will give that a try tonight. I was able to create a secondary menu
of city categories and successfully directed specific content to each. Now
my problem is that one of those category "pages" has a header that I wrote
and none of the others does. I can't figure out how I did. I would like to
be able to add elements to all these category pages like that, as well as
use adrotate and other widgets. Is this impossible because they aren't
actually pages?By the way, I have a bunch of programs from Genesis that were downloaded to my computer when I purchased and installed the Magazine theme. Where do I find the appropriate files for the Genesis Simple Sidebars? The folders I have are Genesis, Genesis-1, Genesis-Sample and Genesis-Sample-1. For example, there are files within the Genesis folder called sidebar-alt.php and sidebar.php. Are those (or just one of them) what I need? Thanks.
Genesis Simple Sidebars is a plugin which can be installed via Plugins/Add New in the normal way.
I don't have Magazine Theme installed but I think the "header" you refer to is done through your Dashboard/Categories. When you edit each Category you will find Category Archive Settings/Archive Intro Text etc.
Eamon Moriarty
EM DzineVery much appreciated, guys. If not for your help over the last few days I'd be sitting in my office pulling my hair out. I've yet to install the Genesis Simple Plugins, but I'm going to give it a try later today.
The plugin is here - http://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-simple-sidebars/. Let me know how you make out.
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Followed the directions and I couldn't get it to work. I can't even explain what I THINK I'm doing wrong because my brain is so scrambled at this point. It could possibly be not entering the proper ID when creating a new sidebar in the Genesis Simple Sidebars tab. I'm trying to create at least one (but hopefully multiple) sidebars for each category (city) page on my secondary menu.
For instance, I tried creating a Burr Oak sidebar for the Burr Oak category page. Does the sidebar ID need to be the Burr Oak category page ID? The Burr Oak Sidebar shows up on the widget page and is included at the bottom of the list of available sidebars on the right side of the page, but I don't see anything showing up in the sidebar areas on the Burr Oak category page.
In case anyone else was also interested in helping me try and figure this out, the site is: joeinsider.com
I think I figured out how to use the Genesis Simple Sidebars to some extent now. I was able to add a Categories dropdown list to my Burr Oak page. However, instead of only showing Burr Oak categories, it shows every category I've created. Now I have to figure out how to customize a category list for each city.
Once you create the sidebars - you go to a particular category and select which sidebar you want associated with that category. Once you do that, then drag over the widgets you want into the appropriate city sidebar.
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