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i have been adding a few bits to a blog tha was started a few months ago. I wanted to add some more categories in the sidebar to put posts under a different category heading but everytime i add a category widget it just has the same posts in it. I would like to take some posts from a category heading and put them under a different new one, but its driving me barmy as i can’t do it.
Am i doing it right and can anyone help? (or does anyone even understand what i am on about?) Thanks
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This is a link to the support documentation entry on Category management http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/category-management/
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http://anglosaxoncsi.wordpress.com
the category management link seems no good for what i am doing i think, but thanks.
i am wondering if i have done something wrong that is preenting me doing this. I want the posts to be under a new bold category heading – i can create the heading by adding a new sidebar category widget but this just has the same posts as under the previous post heading.
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The Categories widget displays post categories, not posts.
It displays all the categories that have at least one published post assigned to them, so there’s no point in adding the widget more than once (as you found out).
To reassign a post from a category to another, you go to the post editor > categories module; there you check or uncheck existing categories or add new ones.
The bold heading is just the title of the widget (should be “Categories”, “Topics” or the like).
You can have categories and subcategories.
Maybe you’ll help us understand what you’re loooking for if you give us specifics instead of writing “some categories”, “some posts”, “a new category heading” etc.
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i have saved the posts as individual post categories name as you stated above – this is where my problem is and what i have done wrong.
I don’t understand what you mean when you say to uncheck/check boxes – if i do this then how is the category title displayed?
I wanted to put some of these under a different widget heading; i.e. have school visits, sustainability and open day under a new widget heading, for example COMMUNITY – is this possible? I like the way the bold breaks each part up.
please excuse my ignorance – i’m sure this could be simpler, and most likely is!
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“I don’t understand what you mean when you say to uncheck/check boxes – if i do this then how is the category title displayed?”
I said that in connection with reassigning a post from one category to another. For instance, if you have assigned a post to “Sustainability” and you want to change that, you go to the categories module of the post editor, uncheck Sustainability and check another existing category or click Add New Category.
“i have saved the posts as individual post categories name as you stated above – this is where my problem is and what i have done wrong.”
Yes: post categories are supposed to be subgroups of posts (by topic).
To achieve what you’re looking for, you can remove the Categories widget and take advantage of the Links widget, which works the way you want:
1) Click each post title in your actual blog page and copy the URL of the post from the address bar of your browser.
2) Dashboar sidebar > Links > Link Categories: add “Community” etc. as new link categories.
3) Dashboar sidebar > Links > Add New: add each post URL in the “Web Address” box, add Name too, assign to proper link category, click Add Link. -
i think i have done what you said – put school visits with sustainability as a test. This isn’t really what I’m after though. Did you understand what I wanted to do? Am i trying to do what is not possible??
To put the conservation posts under the bold sidebar widget heading – not posts within categories (not bold). I have put each post as a category as you are probably aware but this is so each post appears on the front page – i don’t really want to have a category with eg school visits and sustainability, but rather a new bold sidebar widget heading with these underneath. I would rather have each post put as a separate category but under different widget headings – I don’t think it is possible though – it should be!!
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Are you trying to put something in your sidebar titled “conservation posts” and then under that title you want a list of each post you have made about conservation?
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Yes. That is what Panos is describing to you.
You need to use the “Links Widget” (not category widget). People usually use this for their blogrolls: links to other sites they like, but you can use it to make links to your own pages.(I’ll put them in a different order from his.)
1 go to your dashboard and choose “Links” It’s the icon with the chain. Add a category such as community or conservation or whatever you like. Add as many as you like.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/link-categories/2 Go to one of your posts and copy the url of the post from the top of your browser.
3 Go back to your dashboard and choose “links” again. But this time choose “Add new” and put the url code in the appropriate line and give it the title of your page. Be sure to SAVE.
Repeat for each post.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/4 Displaying your links:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/#links-widget
Go to your dashboard, drag the links widget (it says “your blogroll” under it)Now you should see a list of each category and a list of each post below.
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Ah, good. Sometimes it just takes slightly different wording to make a thing understood.
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seems this hasn’t worked – i checked today and when you click on the links it does not take you to the posts, but instead just says, “no posts matched your criteria”. What could i have done wrong?
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don’t worry – i have worked it out!
thanks for the earlier help, and please check the block out if you want (but in a few minutes when i have finished sorting it out) ;-)
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