I'm trying to find a plugin that does the following: I write several product reviews and put them in the camera category (for example). Now if I go to the camera category page there are all of my posts - but just the post titles. So to recap I want a category page for cameras that will display all of the posts that were tagged to this category. However, I only want the post title not the entire post. Perhaps there is a way to do this using Wordpress default options or a plugin? Any ideas? I really need something like this. Thanks!
Yeah use one of the similar posts plugins ? or use the article directory template : http://www.space-ed.com/?cat=26 - that's how I do it. You will need to know some PHP to be able to do it.
I would create a page template. For simplicity, here's the code that you can copy and paste into a text editor. If that doesn't work, PM me with your page code and I will create it for you. <?php /* Template Name: Cameras */ ?> <?php get_header(); ?> <div id="content"> <?php $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("cat=1&showposts=5&paged=$page"); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?> <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar.php");?> </div> <?php get_footer(); ?> Code (markup): Change cat=1 to the id number of your camera category. Change &showposts=5 to be the number of posts you want to show. Save this page as page_cameras.php and upload it to your theme file. Login to WordPress and click on manage, and the cameras page. Scroll down the page a bit to the page template area, and select "cameras" template, click save. Let me know if you have questions or if any of that doesn't work.
That one doesn't seem to show just the post titles though... Thanks for the tip! I worry that this is far more difficult than my terrible coding skills can achieve. So for sure there is no way to do this with the default wordpress options or with a plugin? I have to think there would be a plugin for this. Any other ideas?
It would make for a great plugin, wouldn't it. I don't know of one that does what you want. Maybe this one? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page2cat/ I haven't tried it.
Does your theme have an archive.php file? Some themes use this file to show the category excerpts and if your does have and use that file? It would be easy to edit that file to do what you are wanting. You would edit the file archive.php and remove the content part or excerpt, would probably be one of these two lines used to make the content. <?php the_excerpt(); ?> <?php the_content(); ?> And leave the call to the permalink title and date stamp paragraph which will look something like these lines. <h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1> <p>Posted by Admin on <?php the_time('M j, Y') ?> in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('0 Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?><?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); ?></p> If your theme does not use the archive.php file the edits will probably have to be done in the index.php theme file. Or make an archive.php file for it to be used. Boulder