Ideally you’d post a new article into a single category like “food” but not “clothing” and so when building modules on the home page you’d select one block to show the food content, and another to show clothing content. Similarly to highlight content from a single category, across more than one you can use the “featured” category for a big slider, etc.
Still, this is a common issue … for example visit nbcnews.com as they’re having similar issue with their new site design 🙂
I ran into this with a music category, books category, and then when I had a “music book” that ran in both I ended up with story in two places on home page. But not end of the world if that happens.
Trick is to pick and choose categories and not put stories in all of them.
Not sure that helped, but my two cents anyway. 🙂
Also, note that in the editing screen, below the visual composer, there’s a meta box where you can select to display only unique articles on the page. But I don’t think you can specify which box will display a particular post without the strategizing Christopher mentioned.
The problem is that I have one article that is in multiple categories like “Featured” (to show the article in the main slider), “Food” and “Clothing”. I have different blocks to show each category in homepage. The article is showed only in the “Food”. The problem is that I want to show the article only in the slider (“Featured” category). I have the unique article feature enabled.
Hi,
@Pjump If you have the unique articles on page activated then the post will only show in the slider and not into the block, on other word will be shown in the module/block/slider that is first on the page, you could also try to use the “filter by tag” feature and show the post in the slider by specifying a unique tag to that post and add in the “Filter by tag slug:” field http://screencast.com/t/1pIURyOhAn
Hope this helps!
Thanks
