Dating posts/pages
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Hi. Not so much a problem, but wanted to know if there is a default way to arrange pages and posts by date. I do weekly updates every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and want the newer one to always be at the top. Is there a tool to do that? Having problems locating myself.
Secondly, I have a number of page tabs. Some have more posts than others and when I set the parent category, I have to move the larger parent pages off to access the other ones. Is there a simpler way to keep all my parent categories without seeing the various pages under them?
Thank you for any help you can provide!
Blog url: http://jeffreyklyles.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Posts will always display on the main page, category, tags and archives pages with the newer posts at the top unless you have set your posts as sticky posts in which case they will appear in the order that you “stuck” them. The sticky post feature is designed to allow you to feature a post or two, but is not intended for large numbers of posts as it can cause your site to seriously go wonky.
It isn’t a good idea to put all your posts into the top menu. Can you imagine the navigation nightmare people will see when you have several hundred posts? It will become overwhelming and they simply won’t even try and use it.
Also, if your menu gets longer than the height of the visitor’s browser window/screen, the bottom part of your menu will be hidden from their view.
You can organize posts using categories and then people can click on the category names in the categories widget and get a listing of the posts in that category. You can even add the category to your top navigation if you wish.
You can also use the archives shortcode to put a listing of all posts into a single page if you think that would be useful to your visitors.
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Sorry to trouble you again on this, but fiddling around for a few hours and not making much progress on it.
Like you suggested, I definitely don’t want the long trail of posts/pages on my top menu. It’s already getting overwhelming. I’d like to just have readers click on the top menu items and go to that page, which contains all the posts that currently drop down now instead of having to hunt for the newer posts in the drop down menu.
I’m not sure if it’s the theme I’m using or if I’m still unclear how to set it up so if you don’t mind looking at my site and seeing how I could fix that I’d definitely appreciate it.
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I should have looked a little closer. You are using pages instead of posts and posts cannot be categorized, only posts can.
I know this is a lot of work, but my suggestion would be to change everything over to posts instead and then you can organize them by categories and then include those categories in the top navigation. Then when someone clicks on that category in the menu, they will get a listing of the posts in that category.
I’m afraid this is going to be a lot of copying and pasting from the pages into new posts, and then you can either set the pages back to draft, or you can delete them once they are all transferred.
This support page explains the differences between pages and posts.
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