i just added the first, of many, products to this site: http://bandit4x4.com/wordpress/4x4-truck-parts/steering-parts/oem-stock-idler-arm-bushings/ i have a few questions though about entering additional products: 1. in additon to the products, I also want a separate Blog where I submit stories. i know the blog stories will be posts, but should i enter my products as posts or pages? basically, is there a way to have the blog page ignore posts from certain categories (which would be the product categories)??? 2. is there any way to setup a product template so i don't have to type in all the headings each time i add a new product. all my product submissions will look the same. can i avoid constantly typing in "Product", "Applications", "Features", and all the other headings in a product submission??? please advise. thanks in advance!
Wordpress can be setup to use Custom Post Types, so in addition to "Add Post" you can have "Add Blog Post", "Add Widget Post" etc. I'm sure you can setup a product template too, but I'm not so sure how to go about it. There are a lot of plugins available but I have not used them.
thanks. on a related note though (kind of in regard to question 1 above), how do i select a specific category that should be the only category that appears on my blog page? for instance, if you look at this blog page (http://bandit4x4.com/wordpress/blog/), its showing both the postings from my many product categories and the postings from my "Offroading Stories" category. How do I just limit it to the "Offroading Stories" category???
You can either use a plugin or edit the code directly. There are lots of plugins, such as List Category Posts. If you want to edit the code, add a query_posts line below the comment block in loop.php, like this: * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 */ ?> [COLOR="Blue"]<?php query_posts('category_name=Offroading Stories'); ?>[/COLOR] <?php /* Display navigation to next/previous pages when applicable */ ?> Code (markup):