Archiving content

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  sierramatis · Member · Jul 16, 2017 at 8:15 pm

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  Hey Everyone,

  My question is about archiving. I am currently trying to move old content specific to a particular category (in this case travel) onto a page where there would be an image in a grid style for each post that users can click on and be taken to that post. I want to create some sort of archive, but I read you cannot install a plug in for archives for a basic wordpress site like my own. How can I go about moving old content specific to one theme onto one page? My blog is breakingmatis.wordpress.com

  Thanks for your help!
  Sierra

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 19, 2017 at 5:32 am

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  Hi there, your site can have an unlimited number of posts and all posts will continue to be displayed on the Posts page. If you want to display older posts on a separate archive page on your site, you have a couple of options:

  Category Pages/Custom Menu: When you add categories to your existing blog posts, you can then display them on a separate tab in your navbar with a Custom Menu. This however will include all posts in that category, including new posts. You could create a new category specifically for those archive posts and then use the bulk edit feature in the WP Admin dashboard to add that new category to the relevant posts.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit

  Display Posts Shortcode: You can display posts on a Page you create with the display-posts shortcode using the offset and category parameters. For example, you can set this shortcode to display posts prior to the first x number of posts in the x category.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/

  Lastly, the Archives shortcode: This is probably the easiest to implement, but cannot be customized to the same level as the display-posts shortcode.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/

  Each of these options displays differently, but none of them will give you a grid of images on a page by default. Sela, the theme you are using, does have a grid template, but it is limited to displaying child pages and not posts.

  Try the above suggestions and let us know if you need more help with this.