How To Write Content On Category Pages

[leporello]

Can anyone explain how to do this?

Say I have a site - mysite.com

I have a category called poker site.

So url structure will be

mysite.com/pokersite/fulltilt
mysite.com/pokersite/pokerstars

etc.

How can I write content on the category page? I want to do a full article on the /pokersite page where I'll link to all the inner pages.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

[GFPC]

if im not mistaken I think you mean you want a general page that will list all sites your promoting and link to them?

I think this means you just call the page index.php (or html).

So the url will look like this.

www.mysite.com/pokersite/index.php (or html)

to get rid of the index.php - add a redirect in your .htaccess file to make urls look like this.

www.mysite.com/pokersite/

I can send you code if you need just pm me.

Steve

[kushmoney]

Are you using wordpress? If so then Id' just use all pages and not posts.

mysite.com - homepage

mysite.com/pokersite/ - im guessing your summary of poker reviews?

mysite.com/pokersite/fulltilt - poker review (just make this a sub page of the above page)

[leporello]

Are you using wordpress? If so then Id' just use all pages and not posts.

mysite.com - homepage

mysite.com/pokersite/ - im guessing your summary of poker reviews?

mysite.com/pokersite/fulltilt - poker review (just make this a sub page of the above page)

Yeah that's exactly what I'm trying to do. I'v enever actualyl used pages before, so didnt even know that functionalit existed!

Will have a look now. Thanks.

[xYassassinYx]

Yeah that's exactly what I'm trying to do. I'v enever actualyl used pages before, so didnt even know that functionalit existed!

Will have a look now. Thanks.

Yeah just create a new page which will be your 'Room Reviews' page.

Then go create a new page and name it 'Full Tilt Poker Review' then on the right side in wordpress you will see 'Parent' and just select your 'Room Reviews' page.

This will make your url - hxxp://www.example.com/room-reviews/full-tilt-poker-review

[leporello]

Thanks guys.

[Michael Martinez]

If you use pages for your articles you won't get the pings. I know a lot of people here manually ping the search services so if you're okay with doing that, you should be fine.

One option is to turn off categories and build category pages manually (as suggested above). I think I read somewhere there is a plug-in that does this for you. I could be mistaken, though.

If you can do it this way, you get the advantage of posting new content that pings as blog posts and controlling what goes on your category pages.

You can still use tag pages for quick lists of links by keyword.

[kushmoney]

You could also set up all the pages you need and use posts for news, promotions, or blogging about whatever.

[Mike]

How many categories will your site have?

There are basically two ways to do this:

1. Setup a template for each category that you want content on, more info at Category Templates WordPress Codex

OR

2. Go to your category file and add this code

<?php if ( in_category('1') ) { ?>
content goes here
<?php } ?>

Replace 1 with the category id of your category.

EDIT: Don't forget to use a plugin like WordPress › WP No Category Base WordPress Plugins, otherwise you will have a valid url at:

mysite.com/category/pokersite/

[Cyberone]

You can also do it with server side includes or php includes if you will not be doing a lot of updating.