How to view/list Pages like Recent Posts

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#1

I’ve been scouring the interwebs and am struggling with this one, please send help. I’ll try to explain…

I am building a site for tourism so basically lots of pages of hotels, various tours and a blog of course.

I used Taxopress thinking I would add Categories and Tags to my pages just as I would for traditional Posts and then be able to call them in some sort of shortcode like “Recent Posts”. Ideally what I need to accomplish is to have a page with a hotel and then below that have a list of ‘similar’ hotels. Same with tours.

Do I need to just reformat my Posts to be bare boned and then style them like pages or is what I have been imagining actually possible?

I also intended to use the new Categories feature on the pages in conjunction with CAF so then visitors could actually search using a few terms I’m adding to each page such as Region, Certain Amenities… you get the picture.

So, is it possible to add categories and tags to pages and then use that data to create a carousel all pages with that category?

Is looper the way to do that or is it going to be for posts only as well? I saw another video that mentioned using Essential Grid and call them that way?

Thank You in Advance,

~m

#2

Hi Michael,

Thanks for reaching out.
It is not very clear what exactly you trying to acheive here. If you want to show the Pages as the Posts shown in the Recent Post, you need to use the Query Builder of the Looper Provider and get the pages and use Looper Consumer to show those pages in the same format.
I would suggest you go through the following article on Query Builder to get the Pages.

Hope it helps.
Thanks

#3

Excellent. This is what I figured out after digging deeper into the looper functionality. This poses another question then if this is the solution to my woes.

Everything I’ve seen so far has the looper outputting into a grid of some sort. Is there a way to present the data in a carousel type display for UX purposes? Otherwise, some of these grids will be too much for a page.

Hope that is clear enough and thank you for answering the first question.

~m

#4

Hello Michael,

You can make use of the Slider element and set it to display the post items in each slides. You can actually use Looper functionality in the Slide element. Usually, the Slider Container is the Looper Provider and the Slide element will be the Looper Consumer. With the Slider’s “Wrap” Options Control, you can set the Carousel to display your post items in a carousel display.

Best Regards.

#5

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