[wp-hackers] newbie question on custom page templates

[John Black]

Probably true!! LOL

On 12 Mar 2012, at 14:24, Chip Bennett wrote:

> 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/
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