Can I start a subtopic on my blog via pages or…?

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  pprober · Member · Mar 29, 2021 at 4:53 pm

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  My blog is written from my professional viewpoint but I’m wanting to add some personal posts. I’d like to have them in a separate file/page but still be able to send them to followers like my regular posts. How might I do that? I don’t want to start a separate blog. Thanks!

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Mar 29, 2021 at 6:40 pm

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  Hi there!

  It depends on whether or not you want your personal posts mixed in with your regular blog posts on your homepage.

  If you do, that will be the easier option. You can make posts as normal and those posts will be sent to your followers.

  Then, if you want to have a separate archive of those personal posts, I would recommend setting a specific category for your personal posts (let’s use personal for this example) then you can set a specific menu link for the personal category by following the steps here:

  https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/#category-pages-and-menus

  If you don’t want your personal posts mixed in, then you would need to set up a separate blog for these items. You can make a post on your rainforestmind site encouraging your followers to also follow the new blog to get those personal updates.

  I hope that helps! Let us know if you have any questions.

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  pprober · Member · Mar 29, 2021 at 7:13 pm

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  Thank you, csonnek. That’s what I was thinking I might need to do. I’m confused about how to set up categories but I think I can just send out the personal posts with a title that indicates they are different and then set up a page (in the menu) with links to the more personal posts. So readers can go there to find them. Does that sound right?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 29, 2021 at 7:21 pm

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  You’ll definitely want to utilize categories for this: https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/

  Each category has its own archive page, like https://rainforestmind.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/

  And, those categories can be added to your site’s menu: https://wordpress.com/support/menus/

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  pprober · Member · Mar 29, 2021 at 7:27 pm

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  Thanks macmanx. I’ll see if I can make sense of the category situation. It’s probably easier than it sounds.