BLogrolls Categories
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Hi I am completely confused now, I have a page called Home, Reviews and Posts and I want the Blogroll to display everything. But on my page Travel I only want to display posts I put up about different places I have been to. e.g. I dont want my post about mexico to go up on my page called reviews under the blogroll. does this make sense. I may have two many pages to start off with. I feel like deleting everything and starting again.
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It is confusing at first. The Blogroll is primarily designed for you to link to outside blogs that you like reading and want to show others in case they want to, not to link to other places within your blog. The Reviews and Travel areas you are talking about are categories, not really pages. It is easier to just have one page – a Home – for blog posts, and maybe a second page as an About You page. Then it’s a snap to create categories that will all display on your Home page. When you are in the New Post interface, you’ll see how easy it is to add or change Categories, and to add tags to posts. Tags are keywords that allow anyone on WP to find a specific post via the Search box here. Going through the WP tutorials is worthwhile, too. Good luck.
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thank you very much, I was sort of thinking along the same lines but losing track of my steps, the tutorials are great but just finding the right one to fit the right problem is a bit confusing sometimes. thank you
cheers
Jeanette
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What’s critical is to understand when creating a website structure are the following realities:
1. The differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/2. There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages.
3. We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. Although there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance we have done so by creating a custom menu. In that custom menu you will be displaying Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation to achieve what you want.
These are the how-to instructions:
1. You create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
2. You add the Categories (My Travels, Reviews) you want to display and arrange them in the order you want.
3. Then you add and drop and drag the sub-categories below the appropriate Categories, and when you have everything arranged in the menu that you want you save the menu.
4. Go to the “theme location” module at upper left on the menu page. Select your custom menu name from the pull-down labeled “primary location.” Click the save button in that module.
Note: If you wish you can also include pages and sub-pages of your own choice and custom links in your custom menu as well.
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Understanding the relationship between Blogrolls (Links), links widgets and categories widgets is a must for mastering wordpress blogging.
All wordpress.com blogs have only one Blogroll (Links) located in the Admin area where you enter all links and assign each link to one or more Categories.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/link-categories/The links you enter into your Blogroll (Links) are displayed only after the Links widget is placed in your sidebar. Also note that there must be at least one link assigned to a Category before it will appear in your sidebar.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/#links-widgetLikewise, the Category widget must be placed in the sidebar for posts to display. And just like links when it comes to posts there must be at least one published post in a Category before the Category will be displayed in your sidebar.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/Once your Links widget and Categories widget are positioned in your sidebar, the manner in which the links you entered into your Blogroll (Links) will be displayed is alphabetically in accord with the Categories you created and assigned to those links when you entered them into your Blogroll (Links).
Therefore as you will have multiple Categories it may look like you have multiple Blogrolls (Links) when you view your links in your sidebar. But in truth, you only have only one Blogroll (Links) , which displays links as separate alphabetically ordered groups, in accord with the Categories that you assigned to those links when you entered them into your Blogroll (Links) .
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