Thread: Multiple Blog Categories

Multiple Blog Categories

Is possible to set two or more blog categories?

I see in the demo an option to enter the Category ID, but does this variable behave like the WP_Query function?

For example, if I wanted three blog categories, I'd just seperate the three Category IDs with a comma. I.e. "2,3,6"

I think you can. You can also create one main blog category and just create 3 child categories..

I don't want child categories however.

It's to do with the permalink structure - I want more than one parent category omitted from the classifields, for example:

www.mywebsite.com/blog/
www.mywebsite.com/otherstuff
www.mywebsite.com/evenmorestuff

If I created child categories then I'd be forced to do it like this:

www.mywebsite.com/blog/
www.mywebsite.com/blog/otherstuff
www.mywebsite.com/blog/evenmorestuff

The "otherstuff" and "evenmorestuff" categories would be un-blog related and therefore it wouldn't make sense to make them children of "blog"

This works with other themes = so you'd have to check with the developer, but here's how I approach this when I need multiple blogs withing the site:

EX: www.mysite.com/blog
www.mysite.com/news
www.mysite.com/events

I open the theme files for the blog.php file - and then duplicate the blog file,renaming it news.php or events.php

Then you have to upload the file, register the file within the theme & you should see it in your dashboard when creating a new post.


The developer of ClassiPress theme can give you the specifics on how to achieve this with his theme.

Hope this helps.

And it seems you don't have any problem with it since there are no encrypted files in Classipress and since you look like more of an experience coder I bet you can have it implemented with ease.

Mister Phes (started this thread)

Thanks for the suggestion.

It sounds like you're creating a page template to display a particular category, which wouldn't actually have an affect over indvidual posts permalinks - although without actually seeing the ClassiPress PHP I could be mistaken.

The reason this is important is because I want to import an exisiting Wordpress database and keep the URLs intact for SEO reasons.

Does it works? I need this solution too.