Very simple CMS: project category
I made this blog to have a place to post the applications and programs I have made, and for that I needed a Content Management System (CMS). I looked at some CMS plugins for WordPress, but most of them are overkill for what I need. Instead I decided to use the built inn Categories of WordPress. I created a category called Project, and for each project (a program, website or anything else I made) I would add a sub-category with that projects name. With this simple method I could create several posts describing the progress of a project. Now all I needed was a page with all the projects listed, and maybe the latest posts for each one.
I solved this by making a page Template (not to be confused with Theme, which is something completely different). The template lists all the subcategories of a category, specified in the page metadata, along with the category description and the last 5 posts for each category. This way you can list all the projects on one page and link to the most recent information for each one. Because the category name is specified in the page metadata, you can have multiple CMS pages, for example, ideas, projects or experiments.
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