Neeraj posted this in another thread: Thread located here: http://www.inkthemes.com/community/threads/posts-not-showing-in-menu.853/ I wish to be able to do this as I have set up a blog on my Directory and only want blog posts to go there and NOT all of the listings, I have set up a category called GENERAL and I only want to show posts from that category, can you please show an example of the code you mention to modiy the blog page template to achieve this as you stated it could be done above. This is the link to my current blog page: http://www.carmarthenshirebiz.com/carms-blog/ I am still in the stages of building this site Thanks for any help anyone can give Sue
Hi Sue, Is your blog page based on the blog template? If it is blogs should there automatically and not listings, I've done this on my test site and it seems to work OK - have a quick look. http://geocraft.myenglishbullterrier.com/aboutu/blog/ Everything's a work in progress! Roger B
Yes Roger, I have double checked many times, I made a page, called it Carms Blog, set it to have the themes blog template. I have then made a category "general" and posted to that category in the normal WP way. The blog page is pulling in the 1 Featured listing I so far have on the site and is not showing the post in General Category. The simple answer would seem to be, to have that page show only one category and that is the code/procedure I am asking for. Thanks for your help though Does anyone else have a suggestion? Sue
OK Sue, well another difference is that for my posts I have a specific post category called 'blog' rather than 'general' - I've done no other coding and have used the theme as is, posts and business listing seem to appear in the right places. Do you have any duplicated category names appearing in both your post and business listing categories? I'm not sure how easy it would be to change what actually appears in the post/blog without some help from a plug-in, this theme doesn't seem to be so easy to change! It also took me a little while to realise that you have to create a blog post as an admin in the admin area and that a normal user can't create a post, they can only add comments/reviews to an already existing one! Hope this helps
Thanks Neeraj, hopefully that will do it, I will report back if there any issues. And thanks Roger for all your help too Sue
You are most welcome Sue but I'd be a little worried about why mine worked out of the box so to speak and you've had to do some manual coding. Next update you'll need to remember all these changes - I've changed the slider scroll speed etc so now I make a note of all these things for what looks like being many small updates!
yep I know Roger, used to taking notes etc for client sites and I have not made too many changes. It is a mystery why yours worked and mine didn't but there you go lol oh and by the way, it shouldnt matter what one calls the category used nor the name of the page for a blog page. Thanks again, appreciated. Sue
Hi Sue, I think I misread your question, I thought you want to show the posts from only single category for which I gave you the solution above. However, It seems like you want to show normal blogposts excluding the Listings. Look through the image below to see what you need to do to add the regular blogposts.
Under your theme folder, go to geocrafttheme>loop-blog.php file and open the file in notepad and than edit the file as shown.
Hello Neeraj: I'm trying to do the same thing - show only one category ("blog") on my blog page. I'm using the Colorway theme... any help would be appreciated! Thanks ; Bill
Hello Bill, It is not possible to display post of single category on a blog page. There is one solution for it. Create a custom menu and add a particular category as a menu tab. Check image for reference.
