Adding posts to specific pages
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Hi there,
I’m setting up a blog which will act as a personal hub for information about the author (me!) and also as a hub for any articles/gaming related news that I upload.
I have created separate pages for this content, and I aimed to post new articles to my main “Personal Blog/News” page, as well as also posting them to specific pages.
For example, http://stuffwithgames.net/blog-and-news/ The post which appears here, would also be put in the ‘Editorials’ section here: http://stuffwithgames.net/editorials/
Is there anyway of doing this? As I’m currently racking my brain as to how best to do this .
Many thanks.
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You cannot post to multiple static pages that you create 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.
If you choose Choice 1 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”.Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
What’s critical is:
(1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.
A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or Tags pages and/or Custom Links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus
Here’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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Thank you very much for the reply, will look at all of this.
Would there be a way to add the categories under the main page headings?
e.g. link to them directly as if they were separate pages on the deck at the top.
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Static pages are created by bloggers. Categoies pages are not static pages. Catgories pages are automatically generated by software when you publish a post. When you publish a post with a category assigned to it, the software automatically displays that post on a Categories page generated by the software. All you do in a custom menu is add the automatically generated Category page as a custom menu item.
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