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  journeytoajoyfilledlife · Member · Jan 24, 2017 at 11:38 pm

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  I am not sure what I did but I can no longer seem to link my blog posts to the title on the menu bar. I can find them in archives but I want to be able to get to them from the menu on my site. How do I do this?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 24, 2017 at 11:39 pm

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  This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

  By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

  So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

  You need to be aware that:

  1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

  3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

  So the process you need to use is:

  a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories

  b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu

  c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
  and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

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  timethief · Member · Jan 24, 2017 at 11:40 pm

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  Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one is at https://wordpress.com/themes/revelar/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site for that theme is at https://revelardemo.wordpress.com/

  Volunteers cannot view private blogs and we Volunteers do not request access to them. Therefore, I do not know which theme you have and what you have done. Staff can view private blog content and I typed modlook into the tags in the sidebar of this thread for their assistance. Be patient while waiting for a response and subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  journeytoajoyfilledlife · Member · Jan 24, 2017 at 11:44 pm

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  Thank you. I do have the option for blog posts in my menu on the static home page but when you click on it the blog posts are no longer there. They were there before and I did something and cannot figure out how to get them back so I don’t really need help with a static page just with somehow connecting my blog posts to that menu item on the main page.

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  timmydcrawford · Member · Jan 25, 2017 at 12:24 am

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  Hello! So I see you have created a few pages for “Blog Posts” – on one of those you could use the display-posts shortcode ( https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/ ) to turn that page into a post listing page.

  Then in the menu editor ( https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ ) point the target of the “Blog Posts” menu item to that page. Let me know if that makes sense or if I can help further.