[abisbee]

Hi. I want one page of my website to be a blog page. My understanding is that posts = blog entries. However, I don’t know how to insert posts into a new page. I see how to insert them into the sidebar or a widget, but I don’t know how to make a page of posts. Would you please either tell me how to do it or point me to a page that explains it?
Thank you.
Alice
https://wellnesswarriorsboston.org

[Pratik]

Hi Alice,

There is no way to make a page of custom posts. You will need to do some custom work for that. However, you can make a post of certain category.

Separate all the posts that you want into a different category, then add the link to your menu as https://wellnesswarriorsboston.org/category-slug

If this does not work, please add the posts and category and give me link of blog page, then I can give you link of the desired category.

Regards,
Pratik

[abisbee]

Thank you for your help, Pratik. I guess it makes more sense for me to use a sidebar for posts. Using a test page, I have added Optional Sidebar One and inserted the Recent Posts widget. That works fine. Now I want to format the sidebar contents (of course) but I am not sure of the best way to do this. (CSS? Html instead of the widget?) The test page is: https://wellnesswarriorsboston.org/pratik/

– restrict to one category (“training”)
– show some of the text of each post
– either format the “recent posts” widget title (strong) or hide the title. (I currently have html in there that shows bolded “RECENT POSTS.”)
– increase the spacing between posts (they are too tight)
– hide the Optional Sidebar One from the password screen!

Is it possible to format how the posts appear when viewing?
– show post title
– hide the authors in the posts
– disable comments in the posts
– when I open a post, show Optional Sidebar One, not the primary sidebar

Again, thank you.
Alice

P.S. I enabled editing – how do I disable editing again? (I know NOT to edit the stylesheet – I just wanted to see if I could find code that I could change in optional CSS.)

[Pratik]

Hi @abisbee,

To restrict it to certain category, it is not possible via Recent Posts. For that you can do two things,

1. Use CT: Featured Post widget and add in posts one by one ( This defeats the idea of selecting category )

2. Use Essential Widgets Pro Plugin. This plugin has EW Featured Posts widget that allows you to do all the things that you describe.

I don’t understand what you mean by editing? For small CSS just add in code at Appearance=> Customize=> Additional CSS box.

Regards,
Pratik

[abisbee]

Thank you, Pratik.

I will look into the Essential Widgets Pro plugin.

Appearance / Editor is now set to allow editing to the main theme stylesheet – not a good idea! I want editing NOT to be allowed. Is there a way to do this?

Alice

[Pratik]

Hi @abisbee,

You need to add following code or edit the code line if previously exists:

define( ‘DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT’, true );

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