Blog catagories on different pages?
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Hi, Sorry if this has been posted somewhere and i’m being blind and just cannot find a solution anywhere…. (I have searched for ages!)
I would like to put a catagory of blog post onto a page, for example if i post a blog under the catagory of ‘reviews’ then those posts will appear on a Page called ‘reviews’ – is this possible? (seperate from main blog posts page)
Thanks in Advance!
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It’s not just possible, it’s automatic. It’s already happening. Those are your Category pages. Put the Category widget into your sidebar and click on the name of the category. A page will come up with all posts in that category.
What you cannot do is exclude those pages from teh blog itself.
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I think i get that – i get how the widget displays them, but i’m looking to put the catagory of posts on a page i have already created (on the the top menu of my blog, not on a widget)
So basically if i click ‘reviews’ at the top of my blog, the page will display only posts in that catagory… is that not possible?
Thanks!
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No, it doesn’t go on a page you’ve already created; the Category Page that WordPress.com has created is where they go.
If you want the page tabs to go to your Category pages, you just use this workaround:
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Sorry to be a pain, but after looking at it – is there a way of only showing certain catagories in a blog on one page, and not the other?
for example, i want the reviews catagory not to show up in main blog posts, only on the catagory pages… if that makes sense…
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Like I said, there is no way to NOT display the posts on the main blog page. That is where all posts go.
There is a workaround, but it’s going to screw up your blog if you’ve already got posts in that category: just set all posts in that category to have posted five years ago. I’m not sure if they’ll show up in your RSS feed or not, though. But new posts won’t show on the main blog page. Trouble is, if you’ve got existing posts in teh category, the new posts will actually come up BELOW them and may not be visible at all on the first page of the Category.
It’s also a bad idea, SEO-wise. I dont’ know why, but there seems to be a fad for what you’re asking for, but believe me, you WANT blog posts to come up on the main page, if only to expose your readers to all the things you’re talking about. You can interest people in things they didn’t know they were interested in.
Let me make this clear: for a variety of reasons, some technical SEO reasons and some merely social engineering reasons, if you succeed in doing what you want, your hits and your meaningful readership will both decrease.
If you don’t like the workaround above and still want to do this, I believe it’s possible if you move your blog off WordPress.com, get independent hosting, install WordPress.org software there, and implement the solutions they suggest at WordPress.org.
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Ok, well the posts i plan to do this to are ‘old’ in the sense that they were written 2 years ago, but i’m moving my site to wordpress (because i’m trying to do this on a free basis) and need my old posts on there for people to read my old work – so i’m not worried about decreasing readership on old posts.
You do get what you pay for so i don’t expect miracles so i’m just trying to make what i have workable for me… if possible.
Thanks,
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Okay, I just wanted to warn you. There must be something in the air about it, because we get three or four people a day asking about this.
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Most post/blogging systems i’ve used on hosted websites allows you to do this kind of thing as it’s really good to be able to update pages all in one place, just by clicking a catogory…
Makes life loads easier and works like CMS – but i guess thats what wordpress.org is for :) -
Wait, what do you want to Update on them? I’m not sure what you’re looking for. You can do a lot from the Dashboard.
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I’ve kind of done what i was after from what you’ve told me; but the best way i can explain it is saying what i want my blog to do.
This is my blog http://sezdesignphoto.wordpress.com/
I want it to look like a website with different areas (it does) – so now if for example, i wanted to post a review, i would post the text into a blog, click reviews catagory, and then it would end up on the reviews page.
So i would end up with reviews under the heading (page tab in this case) and all other posts on the first page you land on when you visit my blog….
Simple in mind, not on wordpress, it seems hehe! Or maybe i’m just too fussy/organised.
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