Help! I am confused about my categories!
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Right, I want to post regular things about a few different things. However, I want to be able to organize them so they will be separated into categories. Basically, I want them to only be viewed on the home page and another “page”. I made a page called about me and I want that to be “static” (as in, I do not want any of my other posts being viewed on that page). I want to be able to put my categories at the top of my blog page so you can click on them to see the posts under it.
Eg,
I post a DIY tutorial
I tag it with DIYs
My viewers can see it through hompage and a clicky icon thing at the top of my blog called DIYs (where all my DIY posts are stored)How do I do this????????????????????
Thanks for the help! ASAP replies will be brilliant!
BlissfulCocoa x
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To create a static front page read on. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) A static front page and posts on a different page.By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page: -
There are many misunderstandings and misconceptions when it comes to custom menus. I suggest you read these two posts I link to below.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/Technically you can’t post to more than one page on any blog but do read on. Static Pages and dynamic Category Pages are not the same. The former cannot automatically update but the latter do.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/If you want to have pages that do update then they must be dynamic category pages (and sub-category pages) that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category and/or sub-category.
By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.
We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories and sub-categories pages into the custom menu, and order them as you wish.
First you add categories to Posts.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/Then you create a custom menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/And you add the dynamic category pages into it
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pagesNOTE: Until you actually assign categories to relevant posts the dynamic category pages will have no data that can be displayed on them.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages -
Thank you so much! I think I understand,
First I have to add a category to each post
Then make a custom menu and add dynamic category pages.Thanks again! Just one question…Can I customize the catagory like you do to a page? Like for example add a featured image to it? And will it definitely make a clicky icon thingy at the top/side/whatever of my page?
Please reply ASAP x :)
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