Categories
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I am using the free version of WordPress. I created a blog on one topic and now want to add a second topic using categories. Ideally, I would like to put the first set of posts under a specific category. Then I want to create a new category for the new story. I planned to create a different parent category and put both of these underneath. Is that possible with a free version?
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Hi,
Yes, that’s easily accomplished on a free site. What you’re describing here is a custom menu with items that include links to a parent category page and to subcategory pages. See the following:
1. Categories support page
2. Category Pages & Menus section of the Categories support page
3. Custom Menus support page, and (regarding sub-items in a menu) its Reorder Menu Items & Add Drop-Down Menus sectionThe post in pages support forum tag archive might also be helpful.
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Thanks, again. I am going to look at this later on this evening.
Can you tell me if it is possible to change the name of my site as I want a more generic title? I don’t want it to be called Jean’s Camino for Palestine. I want to change the name to Adventuring or something similar.
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You’re welcome!
Yes, you may change the site title at any time very easily at General Settings. Instructions are provided in the Changing your Site Title and Tagline section of the General Settings support page. The site title may also be change at Customize > Site Identity > Site Title.
If you want to change the site’s address (https://jeanscaminoforpalestine.wordpress.com/) as well, then you’ll find instructions in the Change a Site Address support page. It’s a little more complicated than changing the site title, so let us know if you have any trouble following the instructions.
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You are so helpful. Thanks. I will spend this evening going through all of this. I think I might solve my problem if I could open a second free wordpress blog. But that isn’t possible, is it?
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If I change the site address, will everything stay the same apart from the address? Will I lose the pages and posts I already have or can I start to arrange them in a sub-category?
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think I might solve my problem if I could open a second free wordpress blog. But that isn’t possible, is it?
You can create as many as free site with your WordPress account.
If I change the site address, will everything stay the same apart from the address? Will I lose the pages and posts I already have or can I start to arrange them in a sub-category?
If you change the site address, you won’t loose any content from the site. Your pages, posts will be there with new site address.
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Thanks! I have now changed the site address. I have created a new parent category and have relegated the old blog to a sub-category. Problem is that each time I go onto the site, I go straight to the old blog. How do I get into the new parent category to start editing it? And do I put each category into a separate widget?
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Hi there,
It looks like our volunteers have missed your last reply.
Problem is that each time I go onto the site, I go straight to the old blog.
Can you please clarify what’s happening here? Where are you trying to go, and what is opening instead? Can you give the actual links and/or a more detailed description of where you’re clicking and what you’re seeing vs what you’re expecting to see?
How do I get into the new parent category to start editing it?
The only option to edit a category directly is to change the name of the category. You do that at My Site ->Manage ->Settings ->Writing.
To change which posts are included in a category, you have to edit the individual posts and add them to the correct categories from within the editor itself.
And do I put each category into a separate widget?
If you add the Categories widget to your site, it will show a list of all categories that have posts assigned to them. If you click on a category in the widget, it will then take you to the category archive page which shows all the posts in that category.
If you’re looking for something where it shows the category name, and then a list of post links under that in the widget, it won’t do that. The WordPress software is not designed to list an index of posts in that way.
For that you’d need to use a text widget containing the Display Posts shortcode to list the posts, but I would not recommend that, as will slow down your site significantly as the number of post links grow.
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Thanks for your response. I think I have worked out several of my issues. However, I posted some new information and a friend received it. She said an advert was sitting within my post and it didn’t look right. Yet when I previewed it, it looked okay. Need to find out what is wrong.
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She said an advert was sitting within my post and it didn’t look right
Do you have the URL of that post? It sounds like what your friend saw was an inline ad, which is relatively new addition to sites, but something you will see in many themes of sites with the free plan moving forward.
Thanks,
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Afraid I don’t have that anymore. But if it happens again, I’ll do something about it immediately.
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