having posts go straight to archives
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Hello. I’ve looked on Google and through the forums, so hopefully I’m not asking a question that’s already been addressed.
I was wondering if there is a way to have new posts go STRAIGHT to a specific categories’ archive, aka, NOT appear on the homepage with other recent posts?
And, if not, what’s the best way to try to do this?
Thanks so much.
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There is no way to do this on a wordpress.com blog. If this is a deal breaker for you then you can hire a web host and download a free template from http://wordpress.org and hack it to suit you. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/wordpresscom-vs-wordpressorg/
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=3700Only one page in a wordpress.com blog, usually the front page but this can be changed, is dynamic. That means it will automatically update with each new post you publish. All other pages that you create sit outside the blog structure. They do not automatically update. They cannot be assigned categories. And they do not get the same Google juice that posts on your front blog page do. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/a-post-and-a-page/
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I haven’t tried this, but what about back dating the post so it’s older than the oldest post on the front page?
*goes to try it on the old test blog*
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It does work. The post won’t appear on the front page. And it will be in the category archive in the order appropriate to the date.
To do this, when you write the post, look to the right side of the page and down a bit. There’s a blue bar that says “Post Time Stamp +”. Click the + to open it up. Check the box that say “Edit Time Stamp” and change the date/time as necessary.
Now, if you want the date to be correct *and* have it go directly to archives bypassing the front page, that’s impossible.
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This work around will work for those bloggers who have posts that dates don’t matter on. Also note the blog title urls will contain the “fake-date”.
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You could also set a static front page and remove everything from the sidebar but the Categories widget, as long as you had a theme that didn’t have navigational buttons built into it. It will slaughter your google juice and technorati ranking, though.
But I’m not getting something fundamental here: if all posts go into category archives instead of into the blog normally, what would you have left in the blog? This is why I suggested the static front page.
If you want more separation of category posts than this, you need a separate blog for each category, or you need to move to a self-hosted solution.
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