[wp-hackers] Page categories

[Elliotte Harold]

Robert Deaton wrote:

> No, you can't, and this is intentional. Pages are meant to live
> outside the normal hierarchy of the blog. If placed in a category they
> would have to be displayed somehow when viewing the category, based on
> time or something, which definitely does not coincide with the purpose
> of a page.
> 
> If you want your pages in a hierarchy, use subpages.


I'll look at that. However what's weird is that wp_list_pages has an 
include argument that is defined thusly:

  include (string)
     Only include certain Pages in the list generated by wp_list_pages. 
Like exclude, this parameter takes a comma-separated list of categories 
by unique ID, in ascending order. There is no default value. See the 
Include Pages in List example below.


So I can specify the pages I want in a any given list by category, but I 
can't put them in categories? A bit of a disconnect here.

What I want to do is assign some pages to a sidebar category and only 
show those pages in the links list in the sidebar, not all the pages in 
the database. Excluding or including them by individual post number is 
way too complicated, and doesn't scale across more than one site.

More details:

http://www.elharo.com/blog/software-development/web-development/blogging/2007/04/12/wordpress-meetup-wrap-up/



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