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  • #818203
    William

    I’m a non-coder WP newbie with an established, all static pages, WP site using the latest update of GP Premium 1.6.2 https://kickngliders.org/wp/.

    I wish to replace the club’s paper newsletter by adding a BLOG portion to the site. I have created a BLOG page, https://kickngliders.org/wp/blog/ (for which there is currently no navigation link) that displays posts.

    I’m stuck at figuring out how to provide navigation for the posts by date and category of post, etc.

    #818277
    Tom
    Lead Developer
    Lead Developer

    Hi there,

    Where are you wanting to add this navigation?

    Any examples of what you want it to look/function like?

    Let us know 🙂

    #819170
    William

    What I want to accomplish is to add a “News” (blog) page to the existing static site that will display posts with sidebar navigation to, probably, months and categories and a search of posts in a sidebar.

    Certainly, part of my problem is not understanding the terminology. But I’m probably mainly stuck in a way that seems simple-minded to me: I don’t understand how to set my “News” page so that it has a sidebar to use for News navigation without affecting the sidebar on the “Home” page?

    After that, I see that there are Recent Posts, Categories, Search, etc. widgets that can be added to a sidebar so I can probably manage to set things up from there.

    #819284
    Tom
    Lead Developer
    Lead Developer

    Setting up a sidebar to have different widgets across your website isn’t super easy. The best method is to use a plugin like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/

    That way you can have one set of widgets on your home page, and another set of widgets on your blog page.

    Let me know if that helps at all 🙂

    #821322
    William

    Thanks very much. That helped a lot!

    Installed Content Aware Sidebars but had some difficulty getting it to work they way I wanted. Widget Logic, on the other hand, seems to work fine. Had to learn a bit about conditional tags but that was easy for me to implement and understand.

    Only issue is setting a conditional tag to show the widgets when a date-based archive page is being displayed. I want Recent, by Month and by Category widgets displayed on the blog, single, by category and by month pages. All but the by month display as I wish. I’ve tried several conditional tags but when I search by month all I get is the default widgets?

    The “Widget logic” I’m using is:
    is_home() or is_single() or is_category() or is_archive()

    #821328
    William

    Belay my question! All of a sudden it seems to be working correctly!

    #821439
    Leo
    Staff
    Customer Support

    Glad you figured out 🙂

    #1498230
    Ritesh

    Hello

    I am also looking for some solution to develop a News website

    – Home Page = Latest News with Block + 2-3 post on various categories

    It’s kind of general News Site

    Ritesh

    #1498246
    David
    Staff
    Customer Support

    Hi there,

    you would need to create a static page and use the WP Show Posts plugin to display your various post lists:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-posts/

    If you need any further info – please raise a new topic.

    #1498248
    Ritesh

    Or let me know if i can add some more block (Various News Categories) on front page
    GeneratePress Site Template – Marketer

    #1498250
    David
    Staff
    Customer Support

    I replied to your question here:

    https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/adding-blog-section-to-static-site/#post-1498246

    Please read and raise a new topic if you need further help

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