Subfolder? So you want to create a blog within a blog? Like example.com/olympics as the blog’s URL and have no blog at example.com? Just do that.

But if you are trying to add a category name into your URLs, then don’t do it physically. Do it virtually with pretty permalinks, which are simple and easy to do.

If you are trying to create a Page for, say, the Olympics, then create it and that would be the URL.

This is really a question for the WordPress Support Forums as I’m not clear exactly what you are trying to do here. I don’t know what you want WordPress to acknowledge. There are many ways to do all kinds of things with WordPress but I’m not sure what you are looking for.

I used to have a very hard time making the transition from static HTML web pages to dynamically generated ones. I wanted to have my categories, which were actually directories on the server with keyword names, in the URL. Since WordPress works with “virtual” categories with redirects and pretty permalinks, I had a hard time understanding how that worked. Is this what you are trying to do? Or are you just trying to put a blog in a subdirectory?

WordPress is awesome, first and foremost. I am using it and I see its unlimited potential.

I have one quick question though (maybe two). Now, WordPress aside, your web site is:

http://lorelle.wordpress.com

and if you were going to create a subfolder called “olympics” and place an index.php file inside the “olympics” folder, you could navigate to that page by going to:

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/olympics/

Is it possible for WordPress to acknowledge this somehow, and even better, is it possible to do this AND the page be somehow included in the search results? Please respond, as this is the only thing that is preventing me from continuing with content creation. Thanks in advance.

Name calling certainly won’t help.

You can create custom Pages using templates files that look the way you want them to look, stripped of whatever you don’t want and including what you do want. See Creating your own Page Templates in the WordPress Codex for step-by-step instructions.

Perhaps somebody can help me! I am a total newbie, and perhaps a moron, but I cannot seem to find how to show a page without the date, author and comments. What I am doing is showing a page of all my NextGen Gallery photo galleries, and I just want them to show up with none of that extra stuff. I suppose my standard template is set to show date, author and allow comments on all my pages? I’m so confused!

David: Can you be more specific about what you think will work in the mandatory security release of WordPress? Pages are not impacted at all.

Early in this thread (Comment #6 in 2006) you wrote: “you can’t categorize Pages, though they are working on that feature.”

Do you know if any progress has been made in this regard — or, if there is a stable plugin that could provide this functionality?

Thanks,
Metta

The Pages article on the WordPress Codex gives you tips on how to set your Pages template tag to sort alphabetically using wp_list_pages(’sort_column=post_title’). By default, WordPress sorts by ID number, so you have to set it to sort by post title.