My client wants to split her posts over several pages, with links in the nav 
bar (one for each category). I thought this would be standard but when I 
went to work on it and found the 'pages in a nutshell' statement it was a 
big spanner.

* Pages are not Posts, nor are they excerpted from larger works of fiction. 
They do not cycle through your blog's main page. (Note: You can include 
Posts in Pages by using the Inline Posts Plugin.)
* Pages cannot be associated with Categories and cannot be assigned Tags.

The plugin requires you to go in to the code of the new page and plant a 
post ID. I can handle this but my client's blog editor is not all that 
computer literate.

Am I missing or misreading something with this very useful wordpress tool, 
or are you just not supposed to spread out over several pages? That and the 
above is my assessment so far and the client won't like it, does anybody 
have anything to say... please?

-dE|_---

dE|_ wrote:

> Am I missing or misreading something with this very useful wordpress tool, 
> or are you just not supposed to spread out over several pages? That and the 
> above is my assessment so far and the client won't like it, does anybody 
> have anything to say... please?

Out of the box Wordpress is a blog, not a generic CMS.  When I write a 
series of posts, I tend to just write regular posts and provide my own 
links (for example, 
http://perceptionistruth.com/2008/12/painting-diary-chronoscope-sasha-dubois-part-one/)

However, there are extensive plugins dedicated to making Wordpress 
behave like a generic CMS.

I don't really grasp the 'links in the navbar, one per category' thing, 
but maybe you're talking about different sets of posts, all on different 
topic (like a series on house plants, one on garden weeds, etc.)  In 
which case, I found the AZIndex plugin fantastic for that purpose.

You can see it in action here -> http://www.onelinemoviereviews.co.uk/

In the navbar (I guess if you want to call it that) there's a link to 
Content, which breaks into four pages.  Each of those is built 
dynamically by the AZIndex plugin, sorting and categorising posts in 
different ways.  You can limit the indexes by tag, category, etc. and 
combine different tags and categories together.

It's a really, really simple plugin to use, and yet the results are very 
powerful for categorising and indexing posts.

-- 
Tony Evans
Saving trees and wasting electrons since 1993
blog -> http://perceptionistruth.com/
olmr -> http://www.onelinemoviereviews.co.uk/
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"Tony" wrote in message news:49a99ce5$0$507$bed64819@news.gradwell.net...
> dE|_ wrote:
>
>> Am I missing or misreading something with this very useful wordpress 
>> tool, or are you just not supposed to spread out over several pages? That 
>> and the above is my assessment so far and the client won't like it, does 
>> anybody have anything to say... please?
>
> Out of the box Wordpress is a blog, not a generic CMS.  When I write a 
> series of posts, I tend to just write regular posts and provide my own 
> links (for example, 
> http://perceptionistruth.com/2008/12/painting-diary-chronoscope-sasha-dubois-part-one/)
>
> However, there are extensive plugins dedicated to making Wordpress behave 
> like a generic CMS.
>
> I don't really grasp the 'links in the navbar, one per category' thing, 
> but maybe you're talking about different sets of posts, all on different 
> topic (like a series on house plants, one on garden weeds, etc.)  In which 
> case, I found the AZIndex plugin fantastic for that purpose.
>
> You can see it in action here -> http://www.onelinemoviereviews.co.uk/
>
> In the navbar (I guess if you want to call it that) there's a link to 
> Content, which breaks into four pages.  Each of those is built dynamically 
> by the AZIndex plugin, sorting and categorising posts in different ways. 
> You can limit the indexes by tag, category, etc. and combine different 
> tags and categories together.
>
> It's a really, really simple plugin to use, and yet the results are very 
> powerful for categorising and indexing posts.

Thanks Tony, I'll have a look at that tomorrow (taking a sunday break).

-dE|_---