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What is My Philosophy on the Use of Categories and Tags?
In this session we talk about my philosophy on the use of categories and tags. Categories and tags are designed to organize content and organize access to that content for the users. We discuss why...
View ArticleLesson 7 – Part 7 – Exclude Categories from the Blog Page
There’s one other thing I want to do here in our skin file before we really work on styling the Blog Page and that is to remove uncategorized posts. I don’t want this Hello World post displaying and I...
View ArticleLesson 7 – Part 3 – Using WordPress Tools to Organize the Site
WordPress gives you a couple of sets of tools to help you organize your site. You don’t just have to organize this on your own. There are some mechanisms inside of WordPress that you can employ to get...
View ArticleCreate a Magazine Style Blog Site with Thesis 2 – Part 4 – Organizing Content...
Category Archive Pages are the Focus of this Case Study If you have a page that you want to display all of your posts of a given category, that page is called a Category Archive page and we’re going...
View ArticleCreate a Magazine Style Blog Site with Thesis 2 – Part 6 – Create the...
The very first thing that we’re going to do then here is create our category structure. In order to do that, I want to show you the categories or the breakdown that Brian and I came up with when we...
View ArticleCreate a Magazine Style Blog Site with Thesis 2 – Part 9 – Add Categories to...
Now that we’ve organized some pages and moved some pages into posts, we’re going to come over here to our posts. As you can see we’ve got a whole bunch of more posts, actually 18 posts. Edit and...
View ArticleCreate a Magazine Style Blog Site with Thesis 2 – Part 17 – Create a Custom...
Copy Default Archive Page to the Single Category Custom Template Now that we have our default template set up, we’re going to come back over to templates and I’m going to create a new one and this...
View ArticleHow to Add Category to a Menu in WordPress
In this session we demonstrate how to add a category to a menu in WordPress. We choose the categories to add using the dropdown menu and show an example of adding a menu. We also show where to find...
View ArticleWordPress 3.9 Crash Course – Part 32 – Using the WordPress Blog Functionality
We’re going to wrap today up by talking about using the blog functionality in WordPress 3.9. As I mentioned before, the history of WordPress is as a blogging platform and WordPress today is still...
View ArticleHow to Approach Organizing a Complex Website
In this session we discuss how to approach organizing a complex website so that users can find information quickly. We discuss the most important use of categories which is to provide structured URLs...
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Using the WordPress Blog Functionality
[This post contains video, click to play] Now that you have seen how to configure WordPress to be like a traditional website let’s talk about using the WordPress blog functionality. Again, remember...
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