The Subpage View plug-in, installed on GRC WordPress sites, uses WordPress shortcode [external] functionality to easily list sub pages (children of a parent page, a.k.a. pages that appear under a page in the navigation) in any Page or Post.
This shortcode can be placed anywhere in your text (preferably on its own, separate line) in either the visual or HTML editor, and it displays the pages as a bulleted list. Since this shortcode is a function, it will dynamically update the list as you update your Page arrangement (by adding Pages in the navigation, changing Page order, etc.)
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Author: Joe Banks
| Other Categories: Plugins, Tips
WordPress 2.7+ includes the ability to render a photo gallery very easily, based on the images you have uploaded to a particular Post or Page.
Here’s how.
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Author: Joe Banks
August 17, 2007 – 9:17 am
A Landing Page, often used as a GRC WordPress site’s home page, is a Page made up of three WordPress pages: the main content area and two additional pieces: the Top area (nasa_landing_top), which is optional, and the Right sidebar (nasa_landing_right).
The Top area is the blue area used mostly for emphasis. The Right area is the right sidebar. To set up a landing page, follow these steps.
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Author: Joshua Glemza
| Tags: landing, page
August 16, 2007 – 3:49 pm
People often use WordPress solely as a “blog” to write time-based Posts (news) on their website.
But when WordPress is used as a Content Management System (CMS) with the NASA GRC WordPress Theme, Pages are extensively used. Pages are what you would expect to be the static pages that appear in the Main Lefthand and Top Navigation, and they generally contain content that is revised every once in a while (such as “About,” “Contact,” a project description), while Posts are like news releases that have a definitive time stamp.
Generally, you’d update a Post to indicate a correction, and you’d update a Page to provide a refresh of the information on that Page.
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Author: Joe Banks
August 2, 2007 – 12:58 pm
To hide a page from being displayed in the top and left navigation, add the following custom field to the page.
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Author: Joe Banks
| Other Categories: Tips
| Tags: hide, navigation, page
