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Displaying categories in blog page

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Theotherplatt
10 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 10 years ago

Congratulations again on a great theme!

I was wondering if there is a way to include the post category next to the post author, right under the post title. I have been looking for a solution but couldn’t find anythingon the subject.

Thanks!
The Other Platt

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  1. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Theotherplatt

    Unfortunately, this isn’t possible without a fair amount of custom coding. This is beyond the scope of what we can help you with on the forums, but you could hire a developer to implement this for you.

    We highly recommend using https://codeable.io/.

    (Post categories are in Vantage, by default, displayed at the bottom of the post on the left – sorry I don’t have more for you on this one.)

  2. Theotherplatt 10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Andrew,

    I see, I thought it would be possible to add a category class at the end of the “entry-meta” line.

    Basically what I am trying to achieve is to have the posts in the blog page (it’s all excerpts) to show their category so that one can click on a category and be linked to the relative Category Archive page. Is there a different way for me to achieve this?

    For the moment the only way for a visitor to see a category archive page is to open a blog post and go to the bottom of it and click on whatever category that post is tagged with.

    I am sure I am missing something, any suggestions would be appreciated!

    Thank you again for your support!
    The other Platt

  3. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 10 months ago

    Sure, this definitely can be done, it’s just a little outside of what we can assist with from theme support. The “posted_on” function is in inc/template-tags.php. You can drop that into your child theme functions file and edit as required. That kind of overview advice I can help with.

  4. Theotherplatt 10 years, 10 months ago

    Thank you Andrew,

    Maybe before getting into that there is an easier way to work around this issue. Do you have recommendations for a good “categories” widget that I can put on the sidebar? If I can place something that looks nice in the sidebar and allow readers to filter blog posts by category I have pretty much achieved my goal. I made a search for a nice plugin but so far all I have found didn’t quite meet the criteria.

    If you have recommendations I would appreciate it, but I know this is a bit outside of the scope of the support forum.

    All the best!
    The other Platt

  5. Andrew Misplon Staff 10 years, 10 months ago

    Sure :)

    WordPress adds a core widget that displays all of your categories. If you’re looking for a widget that’ll display the categories related to the post being viewed then I, unfortunately, don’t have a recommendation.

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