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  marleysueblog · Member · May 12, 2017 at 12:37 am

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  Hello, I am trying to make posts on pages and not the static front page aka home page. I have more than one page / category of blog posts and I want them to be organized in this manner. I have looked up how to do thing and others say to go to Settings >> Readings however I do not see a ‘Readings’ tab. Please let me know how I can take my unpublished blog posts and post them to different pages. Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · May 12, 2017 at 1:25 am

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  This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

  By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

  You can create a custom menu and include multiple dynamic category pages that automatically display the published posts assigned to the the specific categories in reverse chronological order.

  Assign categories to posts.
  Create a custom menu.
  Add the dynamic category pages to into the custom menu.

  Dynamic category pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/ created by the software when we assign categories to posts are also not the same as static pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we create.

  You begin by assigning categories https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ to your posts.

  So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

  You need to be aware that:

  1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

  3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

  So the process you need to use is:

  a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories

  b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu

  c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
  and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

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  timethief · Member · May 12, 2017 at 1:27 am

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  however I do not see a ‘Readings’ tab

  If you are not logged in under the correct username account then clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies prior to logging into another account

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the site go to

  Go to http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

  *Replace NAME_OF_BLOG with the actual name of your site in that URL.