A blog within a blog?
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Hi – My first post for help, so hello :)
I’m trying to set up a page on my site that works exactly the same way as the blog home page, enabling me to add categories and tags for a completely separate area and effectively run two ‘blogs’ along side of each other.
At the moment I’m about halfway there, having set up a page where I post short pieces in batches of five or six then ‘paginate’ to break up the pages. The only problem with this is I can’t use categories or tags to help people navigate / find what they are looking for. It’s also getting harder to edit etc as the page gets longer, because it’s all (effectively) on a single page in edit mode.
I hope that makes sense (?). The section I’m talking about is called ‘The Hackenthorpe Book of Lies’ (relates to something Monty Python did) on my site and the paginated pages are linked from a page in the main menu called ‘lies’.
If anyone can see an easier/neater/more effective way of achieving the same page effect but with tags etc and ‘new post’ style editing I’d really appreciate some pointers.
This is the first page of the (currently) 5 page section so people can hopefully see what I’m talking about!
Thanks in advance
David
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I’m trying to set up a page on my site that works exactly the same way as the blog home page, enabling me to add categories and tags for a completely separate area and effectively run two ‘blogs’ along side of each other.
That’s not possible because there is only one dynamic page for posts in a blog. Pages are static and are for content that rarely changes. They sit outside of the blog structure and you cannot post to multiple pages in any blog. There is only one main page for posts in a blog and all posts will display on the main blog page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page.
The front page of the blog by default will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts.
Choice 1 static front page
Choice 2 running page for all posts on front page
Which do you choose? It’s one or the other.
If you choose a static front page then you have to create two pages as I said above. After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page. We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can either put the categories widget into the sidebar, or you can create a custom menu and add the categories into the custom menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menuHere’s a link to a custom menu walkthrough > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/
There are many common errors, misunderstanding and misconceptions when creating custom menus and you can read about them here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/
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We can only assign categories and tags to posts. They acnnot be assigned to pages.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/A WordPress blog can either be structured as a page based website or its conventional post based structure can be retained. I think you may benefit form reading this > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/12/better-blogging-at-wordpress-com-pages-and-posts/
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The easiest way to do this is to register TWO blogs and use a Custom Menu to link to your second, sub-blog.
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