Creating a directory system for Wordpress.
Have you ever wanted to post some resources but didn’t necessarily want them to be on your blog’s front page? I post lots of resources but I don’t want to bog my readers down with tons of RSS feed updates and posts on my frontpage, so I created a few PHP scripts for Wordpress to help me do this. This is all done using native Wordpress API functions. In fact, you don’t even need to make or install any plugins to get this working. The following examples shows you how to make a directory for Wordpress just like I have here on my site.
Some prep-work to be done.
We’ll be working in your templates folder for the whole project. The first thing you need to do is create a new parent category for your directory root. For me I simply created a resources category. After creating a parent category you’ll need some sub (child) categories as well. I chose a few typical ones for my case such as Programming Tools, GIS Programming, and a few others. Now go add a few posts under those categories to get them rolling.