[wp-hackers] newbie question on custom page templates

[Chip Bennett]

The many WPORG support forum volunteers who spend countless hours answering
support questions are probably snickering right now.

As a general principle, the quality of responses to WPORG support forum
topics is usually directly correlated to the quality of the question being
asked.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Ian Douglas <ian at powerfoundation.org>wrote:
>
>
> On your other suggestion, am I alone in thinking that the support forums
> at wordpress.org are more or less dead? When I've posted there in the
> recent past I got virtually no replies.
>
>
> Thanks again,
> JB
>
>
> On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:38, Mike Little wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:38, John Black <immanence7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> So I have a news site, but I want it to look less like a blog than it
> >> does. I thought about trying to create a custom page template for each
> >> category, so it looks like the site has real sections. Only returns
> from a
> >> given category would show up, but there would be many ways of handing
> them
> >> (a slider, a carousel, posts with thumbnails, posts without, etc).
> >>
> >>
> > John,
> > to get different pages or sections for different categories you can use
> > WordPress' built in functionality. I recently recorded a video for
> someone
> > to explain how. http://mikelittle.org/2012/03/adding-category-page/
> >
> > There are a number of carousel plugins out there, but you are most likely
> > going to need a sophisticated theme (not necessarily a commercial one) to
> > do what you want.
> >
> > This type of query is best asked on the WordPress support forums
> > http://wordpress.org/support
> > Perhaps ask agin there.
> >
> >
> > Mike
> > --
> > Mike Little
> > http://zed1.com/
> > _______________________________________________
> > wp-hackers mailing list
> > wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>
> _______________________________________________
> wp-hackers mailing list
> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>