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I have been doing websites for a long time, but I’m new to WordPress. What I want to do is treat categories like links on a site. I have the latest WP 2.6 software and I get the idea of categories, but once I write a post and assign it to a category it shows up on the front page as well as the category page. I don’t want that. I want that post to show on the appropriate category page. I think I have my settings correct, but all online tutorials are done for older versions of WordPress and I can not seem to find resolution to this problem. My blog is at http://iloveprescott.wordpress.com. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Go to Write > Page, create a new page (with whatever content you’d like to have as your front page), click Publish. Then go to Settings > Reading > “Front page displays”, select the page you created as a static front page, click Save Changes.
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OK, I might be in the wrong forum and panaghiotisadam, I tried your settings change and it worked, but maybe I explained this incorrectly. All I want to do is write a new post and assign it to a specific category…when I do that now it shows up on the front page as the latest post…AND…shows up on the specific category page. I just want the new post to only go to the category I assigned it to.
I did check out the settings, but those seem to be universal and not specific to single posts. I know I’m not getting this and it must be simple, but I have tried a dozen things and this simple task is really getting complicated. Thanks for your help beforehand…LOL
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a. You have a wordpress.com blog, so you’re not in the wrong forum.
b. I can’t understand what else you may be having in mind: if you don’t want a static front page and if you want your posts on their category page only, what would your front page show?Or are you talking about just ONE particular post not showing on your front page?
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I just read your post, which makes things rather clearer. No, a category is not “the blog equivalent of a page”, it’s a sub-group of (related) posts. We’ve got pages, too (see here for the difference between posts and pages). And perhaps you’re missing the fact that ALL posts are filed under a category (they can belong to more than one category, but not to no category at all).
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OK, eventually I will have only four categories. 1. Events 2. News 3. Photos 4. Video. What is happening is that I write a post, I assign it to the “News” category, but it shows up on the front page(Home)…AND on the “News” category page…I just want it to show up on one page…”News.” I want to be able to assign any new post to a specific category. Right now if I assign it to any category it shows up in two places…on the front page (home) and on the category I assign it to.
I see other blogs and they have several categories. Their front page is one set of posts and clicking on any category sends you to another page with different posts.
Check out the blog and you will see what I mean…http://iloveprescott.wordpress.com
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I apologise if I created confusion – but this
I have the latest WP 2.6 software and I ..made med assume s/he was in the wrong place. -
I really think all you need is more posts. ALL posts will show up on the main blog page; that is how a blog works. Categories work by grouping all posts on a give topic. There is nothing you can do but try to make your main blog page less accessible, which will slaughter your SEO and your readership.
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Well, as I told you, you cannot have that post in “News” only unless you add a static front page. Blogs that don’t have a static front page do not display “one set of posts”: they display your most recent posts, with the latest one always on top. That’s the way blogs are designed.
If you tell us what material you ‘d like to have on your front page (that is, what material you don’t want under those four categories, if I undertsand correctly) then perhaps we can come up with a realistic solution.
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I get that….but still…I want a post to be placed in one place…lets say in the “News” category…can this be done? Right now the last post I wrote I clicked the check box of “news” and it showed up in the news category…but it also showed up on the front page…I don’t want it on that page. How do I place it into one category?
Obviously I am using the word “page” to mean the separate page that the News category posts show up on….this is incorrect.
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So…how is it that I see blogs that have several categories…you click on that category and the information on that category page is different that the front page?
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You keep repeating the same thing – please read our replies more carefully. A non-static front page will always display your most recent posts (no matter what category you assign them to); you can’t exclude posts from it.
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Because those blogs have a lot more posts than show on the front page. I have over three thousand posts. EG:
http://raincoaster.com
http://raincoaster.com/category/vancouver/You COULD, if you’re only going to have a finite number of categories, register a blog for each category and only post each thing on its own particular blog.
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Ah, didn’t see your last post when I typed my previous reply. The information is different because a category page displays ALL THE POSTS FILED UNDER THAT CATEGORY while your front page displays YOUR MOST RECENT POSTS, regardless of category.
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So if I have a dozen more posts then I can separate them into categories and set the front page to be static. From that point forward one can look into a category to find the latest “News.”
If I read this correctly then a “Page” is static and can not be added to on a regular basis and will not show dates etc like posts do…nes pa?
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Let me try to clear the confusion…
By default:
- The blog front “page” will display your most recent posts. It doesn’t matter what categories are assigned to the posts.
- blogname.wordpress.com/category/news/ will display any posts assigned the news category. If there are recent posts assigned to news, they will also be displayed on the front “page.”
If you don’t want your latest posts to show up on the front “page” you go to Settings->Reading and set a Page to be the static front “page.” This will keep all of your posts off of the front “page.”
There isn’t a way to have posts only show up in the category listings though. There are listings by date, such as blogname.wordpress.com/2008/ and blogname.wordpress.com/2008/07/. There are also listings by author, such as blogname.wordpress.com/author/mtdewvirus/
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Hi, I have a question that sort of relates to this main question. I read in the FAQ that I cannot post to a page. I have a navigation bar with a few pages (about, contact, archives, etc). I have a music blog and I want to create a charts page which would pull from the category “charts” that I’ve created. I want the charts to be under the charts category but also to appear on the page. Is there a way to create a theme file/page that would archive but only from ONE category? I tried to copy the archives page and paste it into the new page but I couldn’t figure out which part of it to edit to grab the one category. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
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There is no way to make a page that automatically does that which is NOT the Category page. The link from the Category link in your sidebar widget will go to that local category; if you want to give it greater prominence, just put it in a text widget all by itself.
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