the link you provided is throwing a 404. As far as the plugins you may want, I'd recommend the Page List + and Page List Thumbnail Views add ons by SkyBlueSofa. Using these and some page attributes created at dashboard > page attributes you could have just what you're looking for, with a nice look!

You would place each new post under it's appropriate category page and then use the Page List + add on to filter all posts by page attribute and page type (if you're interested in also creating these). All in all displaying your posts in the appropriate places will be a breeze in the long run.

Edit: This is similar to what I happen to be putting together at the moment. You can see an example of how it would work with the addons here on the blog and video pages...

http://nibiruannunaki.com

Hi enlil, thanks for the response. The link was giving a 404 because there was a period at the end. Oops :) Now that you get a look at the site, do you still think these plugins will do the trick? Namely, do you think there would be any difficulty feeding some posts into that location at the bottom of the index page? Sorry if these are silly questions, I'm pretty new to PHP and content management.

The plugins do seem like a solid, viable solution. Do you happen to know anything about the ProBlog or Wordpress for Concrete5 plugins? I'm curious whether they could also provide this functionality, and if so which would be the better and/or simpler solution.

Thanks again for your input!

I'll take a look again after work tonight. As far as pro blog goes, after a while of using it I figured out how I could set up a blog system myself without using the add on!

Enril,

Do you mind sharing how you did this ?

Thanks, Mark

First, I created two new page types Blog, Video via FTP.

Do this by first copying the contents of your /packages/youthemepackage/themes folder into /themes. Then dig into the page types in your theme in the /themes folder and copy the page type you'd like to use. I simply chose to copy right_sidebar.php. I named the two new files blog.php and video.php. In your case you may only need to create 1 new page type. Think "blog categories" and you may decide to create more than one! This will come in very handy later when implementing the page list+ add-on. ;)

Next go to dashboard > page types and click "add page type". Enter the name of your new page type and enter the handle based on the filename you created. For instance i created blog.php, so my new page type name is "example page type name", and the handle would be "blog", because the filename was blog.php. Select the icon you want to use for the page type and select any attributes you want on newly created pages using this page type.

Click "add" at the bottom of the page.

You should be able to add a new page and use this page type now!!

As for the page list+ and page list thumbnail views add-ons, you will be able to use these to display pages based on page types, filtered by keywords or page attributes etc etc etc. The page list+ add-on is an AMAZING leap from the core page list block thats for sure. Theres so many ways of using it I cant even tell you all of them because I haven't been able to dig that deep into it yet, but rather have just accomplished what I needed to. ;)

Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes !!


Edit: Here's a link to the offer I purchased. The other two add-ons are pretty nice as well. I'm in the process of working with the popular pages right now!!

http://www.concrete5.org/offers/-/stmzx0pnrete/...

@drconsolidated... The site at the URL you posted is not a concrete5 website.

None of the advice posted here will work until you convert your site to concrete5.

I believed this was in regards to wanting information about functionality previous to converting current site...