Frontpage of my blog
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Hi this is my blog. I need help to display the information in a simple and practical way.
How do you think I should use the frontpage?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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In a conventional blog structure your front page displays your posts (not pages). The posts are displayed with the most recent of top ie. in reverse chronological order.
A second alternative is to restructure the blog and create a book-like structure.
A third alternative is to create a website structure by creating a custom menu. Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
What’s critical is:
(1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.
A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus
If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page for your site, and also create a “blog” page for your posts to display on, but that’s optional.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/Note static front pages tend to be traffic killers as most folks come to blogs to read the most recently published content. They don’t appreciate clicking through the same static front page every time they visit the blog in order to find the most recent content.
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Hi, Ive only just joined wordpress and still learning how to use the site. I enjoyed your response above because I thought I had to have seperate pages but you have clarified that for me now. I have got some different catagories I just didn’t realise they showed as seperate pages. Thanks again. Metaphyzgirl (Angie)
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