I have been setting up the categories and like the custom styling you have but the problem I’m running into is there is not a way to select which content shows up there. On blocks for instance I can pick a page or a post and customize them to my liking. I seem to be limited on my options for categories. Is that true or is there a way to customize it with a developer? Thanks!
categories in WordPress show all content assigned to that category; so if you don’t want or do want a post in a category simply select/deselect on the actual post.
So, for something about books on the books category page, it must actually be selected to the books category.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Category
https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts
https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Categories
I’m referring to the “Categories” settings in the theme panel. In these I can select a Top Post Style (Grid) and an Article layout. Is that the only customizing I can do? It shows all of my posts in the category there. Can I “sticky” a post to show first or do anything to the order they are show? That’s what I’m wondering more the options I have related to the Newspaper theme.
I don’t think so, but could be wrong. Sorry.
Hello,
Unfortunately, there are no sorting option for the category archive. A category page is not like a standard page. It will show all your posts that belong to that category in a “latest” sorting fashion. The only options available for the category pages are available in the theme panel under the per-category setting. You cannot edit a category page in visual composer and you cannot sort the posts as there is no such functionality added to them. WordPress only provides a loop of the latest posts on category pages and we do not change that functionality. We added a bit of style to it, but do not change the base structure of a category page.
Visual composer as well cannot be used on a category page as they also did not create it to handle categories. We only recommend using visual composer on pages but the plugin allows the use on posts as well, but no category pages.
Thank you!
