Can we control where each post goes?
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Hi,
I am not familiar with blog administration and I have a basic issue : what’s the technical difference between a post and a page ?
What I’d like to do is creating pages (one per country I visit) and add posts to them until I change country (create a new page). But when I create and fill a page, if I click on “new post” and fill it in, this new post ends up in the default blog page rather than in the page I was working on when I clicked “new post”. I like the idea to have a page where all my posts chronologically go but can I find a way so a post also updates the page I desire to change ?
I probably didn’t something fondamental about blogs and I hope someone can help me understand.
Regards, Ceriko.
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Is it possible to have separate lists of new posts under each category, rather than one long list, with the latest going at the top? So, for example, if a person visits your homepage (don’t know if that’s the correct terminology for a blog as opposed to a website) they can glance at the categories and see if there is a new post under their area of interest? Thanks. x
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You mean, your front page will look like
Newest post category1
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Newest post category2
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Newest post category3regardless of date posted? E.g. catgory 3 could be younger than category 1.
Not possible on wordpress.com. Besides, that is what the categories widget is for, so you can select which category to display.
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I’m not sure if that’s what I meant, hudsal. I was thinking of having my categories listed as is, but underneath each category heading would be a list of posts with the latest at the top. I’m guessing the answer’s gonna be that it ain’t possible. I don’t get what you mean by selecting which categories to display – surely it’s best to leave them all on display?
Do you get fed up of dealing with thick people like wot I am? x
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Yes – where the categories are currently listed, but underneath would be the latest posting for each. (Instead or as well as being listed under ‘latest posts’. Ta.x
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Displaying the latest post for each category can be done using a little workaround. Since each category has its own feed you can use the RSS widget for each category.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/
Simply add the desired number of RSS widgets to your sidebar and enter the RSS feed URL for each category:
blogname.wordpres.com/category/feed/
or
blogname.wordpres.com/category/sub-category/feed/
etc.e.g.
http://dbennison.wordpress.com/category/1-bylines/feed/ -
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Thank ye Husdal & T3ck for the links.
After many tries I found out how I could sort by country using “categories”… that way I post everything on the post page and the categories do the work for me, which gives me exactly the result I was looking for.
Regards, Ceriko.
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Hi husdal – me again. As already mentioned, your instructions above worked beautifully. However, I am now puzzled again, as I have just put a new post into my ‘plain and simple’ category, but it is not listing under the RSS feed – although it has appeared under the usual ‘Recent posts’ heading. Any clues?
Thanks ever so.x
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Hi husdal – I need not call on your genius after all – my latest post has now appeared under the appropriate feed. I guess it’s just some time delay thing? Ta. x
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I’m a bit confused. I only have one ‘Main Page’ on my blog. If I create a new category, can I post new posts within that new category and not have it appear mixed with the postings that I have on my ‘main page’? I do, however, want these new posts to show up in the sidebar under that particular category.
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No, you cannot have posts NOT appear as posts in the main page of your blog, unless you try this workaround:
Simply set them to have posted several years ago, by Editing the datestamp of the post. The problem is, if you’ve already got posts in those categories, they’ll show up as five years ago, ie won’t show up on the category pages or in the sidebar as fresh content.
If you don’t like that workaround, you’re stuck, assuming you have a blog at WordPress.com. Which we don’t know, because you haven’t given us a link, so none of that may apply. We don’t know.
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:)
This is my blog. http://halfasleepinfrogpajamas.wordpress.com/
I want the date to remain current since the point of the new category is to keep people current with some of my daily antics, but I want to keep it separate from the better writings I do in my main blog.
See how POSTS and BLOGROLL are headings with listings under, I want this new category to appear between them ‘ONLY IN TAIWAN’ and also have listings but not appear mixed in with all the posts you see… do I make sense? Is there any way of doing this?
Thank you!
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