about page with blog posts

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  adorednrestored · Member · Dec 15, 2015 at 6:31 am

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  Hi there!

  I was hoping I could get help with my blog page issue. I am using the custom theme ‘Cubic,’ and I am trying to include my ‘About Me’ post together with my blog posts! If that is not possible I would like to add a link titled ‘About Me’ which directs my readers to that post. I hope I was clear enough and can receive the proper assistance. I greatly appreciate it.

  Thanks,

  Widaad

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  stefmattana · Staff · Dec 15, 2015 at 1:00 pm

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  Hello Widaad,

  Your About Me content is not a blog post at the moment, but it’s been set up as static home page. Since your About Me is not a post, it can’t be listed along with the other blog posts. Here’s the difference between a page and a post: https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  You may want to turn you About Page content into a blog post, so to be listed with the others on the “Recent Blog Posts” widget in your menu, but please bear in mind that it won’t be listed there forever as the list updates with the latest post you publish (it shows only a certain number of entries and it lists posts from the more recent to the oldest).

  The best solution that comes to my mind at the moment is to place the About Page in your menu, so to appear as a “sticky” content on your sidebar menu . Do you think it may work for you? :)

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  adorednrestored · Member · Dec 20, 2015 at 9:39 pm

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  Thanks for your quick response! Yeah I figured but I would have liked to have it as my first post. However since that is not possible I would like to add it in my menu as a sticky, as you mentioned. Although I am not quite sure how to do that. Is it possible to have pages titled About, Travel, Adventures, Cake Baking & Decor, Fashion, and Interior Design & Decor? Then have the appropriate post in each page? I’m sorry this is all so new to me so I am very confused to how to make it all accessible with the layout I like! Thanks kindly for your help 😊

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  timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2015 at 9:50 pm

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  This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

  By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

  So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

  You need to be aware that:

  1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

  3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

  So the process you need to use is:

  a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories

  b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu

  c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
  and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/