Autistic Student needing help please
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Hi,
So, for my website visionarynetworks I have struggled to use the features. I’m very confused by it to be honest and other students on my course have been better able, than me, to set out their website. In terms of homepage, and Tv and radio, sport, different categories. How do I make my articles into separate categories? For example the travel blog I did?And now I am writing autism pieces which are my major university project. So my question is, how do my blogs be separated, because they all continuously appear and lump together. How do I do it so their separated please?
Hope you can help me please.
James
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Hi there,
for my website visionarynetworks I have struggled to use the features
Which features you are referring to? For example, using blocks?
https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/#blocks
For site set-up in general, you may wish to look at one of the support posts, for example:
https://wordpress.com/support/customize/
https://wordpress.com/support/video-tutorials/
https://wordpress.com/support/five-step-website-setup/
https://wordpress.com/learn/In terms of homepage, and TV and radio, sport, different categories.
Are you asking how to create pages in different categories? This is possible with posts but not pages (at least, if it is possible, it is only available in certain themes). Some themes allow you to add tags to pages, I believe.
How do I make my articles into separate categories?
For posts, you can add categories by going to My Site > Manage > Settings > Writing > Manage Categories and creating a new category. You will then need to go to My Site > Site > Posts, find the posts you want to add the category to, and open the editor. From here click the settings icon (the cog symbol in the top right-hand corner), go to document settings open the Categories menu. Select any categories you want to add. (You can also create categories here.) https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/#adding-categories, also https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/#assigning-posts-to-categories.
Category archive pages will automatically be made (the URL of a site called example.wordpress.com will be example.wordpress.com/category/category_name/), but there are ways of creating customisable category pages.
For this you need to add a new page by going to My Site > Site > Pages > Add New Page (https://wordpress.com/support/pages/#create-a-new-page), and create a blog post block on this page. You can add either the Blog Posts block or Latest Posts block. You can find these by going to insert a block, then typing either ‘blog posts’ or ‘latest posts’ in the search bar (Blog Posts can be found under the Layout Elements heading; Latest Posts under the Widgets heading). These blocks work in the same way but look slightly different (at least in my experience). https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/latest-posts-block/, also https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/blog-posts-block/.
Once you’ve done this, you’ll need to set the block to only show posts with a specific category. Select the Blog/Latest Posts block and open the Block Settings. Scroll down to Display Settings and add the categories you want to include here. For this to work, you’ll need to have added these categories to the posts, too.
https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/#category-pages-menushow do my blogs be separated, because they all continuously appear and lump together
I’m not sure I totally understand what you mean, do you mind explaining your problem in greater detail? For example, are you referring to how to create separate blog posts? You can do that by going to My Site > Site > Posts > Add New Post. https://wordpress.com/support/posts/#publish-a-new-post.
Or are you asking about creating an entirely new blog for your university project? If so:
To start a new site, go to My Site(s). There will be an option to Add New Site in the menu bar. Then you can create an entirely new site.
Alternatively you can create a new site by going to https://wordpress.com/start/.
There’s a support post on this:
https://wordpress.com/support/start/I hope this helps! Ask if you have any more questions.
Just a reminder that this forum is for WordPress.com hosted websites. If you use the open-source WordPress software, you’ll need to go to their forum to get help: https://wordpress.org/support/forums/
If you want to know more about the differences between WordPress.com and the WordPress software you can read the support post:
https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/
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