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So one of my categories is interviews. But I would like to organize all the interviews as the people I am interviewing in the archives or whatever. Right now under the interview category is the months I posted not under the person I interviewed. Also this is a pain because let’s say I enter 2 interviews i have done in the same month they are both going to be under that month not Interview with Bob John and another spot for my interview with Jill Davies.
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You need to assign the Interview category to relevant posts and set up a custom menu.
This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) 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.
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-menusAlso note that this is the link to your detailed theme description page which has set up instructions https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/truly-minimal/ This is the link to the live demo site http://trulyminimaldemo.wordpress.com/
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I have looked over these things and I do not see that that does what i am trying to do. I am going to look through it again. But I want people to come to my blog and go under Interviews and be able to pick the person i interviewed. Not have to scroll through endless interviews. When you click on the category Interviews I want there to be a list of people you can click on and choose between. The only way you can do that now, in the archive is to click on a date. So if i visit my site as a random person and i want to see a list of the people that have been interviewed there is no way to do that. All you can do is click on December 2014 (because that was when it was written) in the Archives. How is anybody suppose to know there is a interview on John Doe by clicking on December 2014?
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