Add a contributor's page

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  marshallcweber · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 9:14 pm

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  Is this possible?

  I want to add a bio page with all the authors on the site and a link to their most recent article.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 9:53 pm

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  Sure. Have you gone through http://learn.wordpress.com yet? Do so, and then just create a static Page for that. You could alternately just use the Authors widget. Note that they won’t show up in it until they’ve had at least one post published on the blog.

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  marshallcweber · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 9:58 pm

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  I already have the page set up for where I want to put it, so how do I create a static page just for that?

  I wouldn’t mind using the widget, if the widget doesn’t appear on the main page.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 10:04 pm

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  I already have the page set up for where I want to put it, so how do I create a static page just for that?

  What does this mean? The only Pages you have created are
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  marshallcweber · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 10:50 pm

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  Actually I think I took it off, let me add the page again.

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  marshallcweber · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 10:52 pm

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  Ok it’s up under

  “Contributors”

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  timethief · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 10:53 pm

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  Why do that at all?
  Why not create a single Authors Category and then create sub-categories for each Author’s name? By assigning them to the relevant posts and creating a custom menu you can achieve what you want.

  reference: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/03/06/multi-author-wordpress-com-blogs/

  Please read this first Post vs. Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  (1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
  (2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.

  Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.

  By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page and have your published posts display on another page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ but doing that does not change what follows.

  Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  This guide will walk you through how to create category pages for your blog, to display groupings of similar posts on pages other than your front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  Create a custom menu
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
  Add dynamic categories and sub-categories pages to it
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
  Create order and sub-menus (dropdowns)
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Here’s a link to my post on this http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

  There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well.

  Custom menus

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  marshallcweber · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 11:02 pm

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  This all looks great, thank you.

  My only question is that….

  I’m with linking their stuff to a new page, not having their “article feed” in the main bio page is fine…

  Can I still create it as a Bio page and have the list of authors and by clicking their name…you’d get their “Feed page”

  Basically, I just want a place where their picture, brief bio and Twitter handle is linked to one spot.