categories, capacity, preview

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  weallspeakenglish · Member · Jul 22, 2011 at 3:45 pm

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  i have some questions…

  firstly, we have limited capacity (3gb). can i somehow choose posts to be automatically deleted after a certain time period? also, is what takes up space the media or even plain text?

  secondly, how can i make my posts show only the first couple of lines and not the whole post?

  thirdly, i want to create a blog with dozens of article categories (sports, people, news, gossip etc). what is the best way to do that?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 22, 2011 at 4:43 pm

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  1) The 3GB limit is for images or other files uploaded to your blog (and 3GB is enough for several thousands of properly sized images). Text is unlimited.

  2) Use the more tag:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  3) ?

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  weallspeakenglish · Member · Jul 22, 2011 at 5:16 pm

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  what i mean is that do you think i need to create pages or categories are enough?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 22, 2011 at 10:09 pm

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  Categories vs Tags
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/
  Creating categories
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  Displaying categories
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/
  Note: There must be a published post in each category you create in order for there to be anything for the Categories widget to display.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 22, 2011 at 10:11 pm

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  Pages vs posts
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  Creating Pages
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  Creating posts

  Create a Post

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  weallspeakenglish · Member · Jul 23, 2011 at 7:33 am

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  pages or categories? better?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 23, 2011 at 7:49 am

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  If your concern is how much space you’re using, it doesn’t matter. Text use is virtually Nil.

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  weallspeakenglish · Member · Jul 23, 2011 at 8:59 am

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  I am concerned but not about my last question. what i want to know is what is better in order to categorize your posts better and guests to browse through them easier? with pages or just categories?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 23, 2011 at 10:45 am

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  Categories (by definition!), plus the Categories widget in your sidebar.

  A static page is like a post (just outside the chronological structure of the blog), and is meant for some permanent content such as an intro to the blog or a bio.

  If by pages you mean category tabs in the header instead of the sidebar, that’s also possible – by creating a custom menu. But if you’re going to have many categories, it’s neither practical nor good-looking.

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  weallspeakenglish · Member · Jul 23, 2011 at 10:46 am

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  thanks