Hi — help
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We are using the Hemingway site (https://hvwpinvitationalinstitute1718.wordpress.com/)
All of our ‘pages’ are coming in duplicated as posts which don’t want. Any help would be great! Thanks. We use blog posts for posts and treat them differently than pages (more resources, etc.).
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Hi,
Can you provide an example of a page and a post on your site that have the same content?
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Hi,
All of our ‘pages’ are coming in duplicated as posts…
I do find both a page and a post with the title “Tom Meyer.” The sub-menu items “Hudson Valley Writing Project,” “National Writing Project,” and “Jacqueline Hesse” each link to posts, and I haven’t found pages with these titles. All of the other sub-menu items under “About Us” currently link to static pages. So, I’ve seen only the one instance (Tom Meyer) of a page and post both having the same title, though there might be, or have been, others that I haven’t detected. I’m a volunteer, so I don’t have access to presently unpublished content on the site (drafts, etc.).
Is it possible that someone accidentally used a post editor instead of a page editor for a few items? If this wasn’t the case, then I’d suggest that you add a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic to call for staff attention.
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Since all sub-menu items in a custom menu must be added manually, one at a time, the fact that the top three sub-menu items in the menu link to posts indicates that someone intentionally added these links.
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Thanks for writing us — we did not intentionally link pages to posts. Is there a way to intentionally unlink them?
Thanks
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we did not intentionally link pages to posts.
Sorry, but I didn’t say that pages were intentionally linked to posts. I said that links to posts were intentionally added to the custom menu, but perhaps I should have said that they were manually added, though perhaps not intentionally.
I’ll call for staff attention to the topic. Please wait for a staff member to respond.
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There is a setting that will add new pages to menus automatically, but it doesn’t seem to be on at the moment. It may have been on while the pages were being created, though.
Can you send me a link to a post that has been duplicated? And a link to the content it has been inadvertently duplicated from?
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Thanks for writing —
The first four “pages” created under “About us” have appeared as posts, too. I want to figure out what to do so that this doesn’t happen again. : )
TOM
https://hvwpinvitationalinstitute1718.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/national-writing-project/
https://hvwpinvitationalinstitute1718.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/hudson-valley-writing-project/
https://hvwpinvitationalinstitute1718.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/jacqueline-hesse/
https://hvwpinvitationalinstitute1718.wordpress.com/tom-meyer/
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There is a setting that will add new pages to menus automatically, but it doesn’t seem to be on at the moment. It may have been on while the pages were being created, though.
This feature wouldn’t apply to menu items linked to posts. As far as I know, it’s impossible to obtain a menu item linked to a post without choosing the “Posts” category from the available options, as described in the “Add menu items” section of the Custom Menus support page, and then (intentionally or not) selecting a post from those listed there.
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If they’re using the WP Admin Menus page, obtaining a menu item that links to a post would still require manual addition.
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As far as I know, it’s impossible to obtain a menu item linked to a post without choosing the “Posts” category from the available options…
Actually there is another way. If the menu items are custom links, the URLs may have been edited to change them from page URLs to post URLs.
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A custom menu can contain links to posts and pages, but it can’t create pages or posts. It has nothing to do with the creation of posts and pages. Those were created before the menu items were added.
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Gotcha. Thanks for the links @tomnewpaltz. I see what’s happening here.
The links that you’re seeing in the navigation are directly to posts in WordPress (https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/), not pages. So they look like pages in navigation at the moment, but are simply linked posts.
This is fixable, though!
If you want those posts to function as pages and also have the URLs match (so that it would say https://hvwpinvitationalinstitute1718.wordpress.com/national-writing-project/ instead of https://hvwpinvitationalinstitute1718.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/national-writing-project/) then you’ll want to recreate them as Pages.
There is a great tutorial about how to create pages here, in case that is helpful. https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
Hopefully this helps. Let me know if I’m misunderstanding the problem, though!
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…but it can’t create pages or posts.
I stand corrected. Both pages and posts may be created at Customize > Menus > Add items. I’d forgotten about that somewhat recent feature addition, since I still use the old WP Admin Menus page. However, the posts you refer to contain content, which (unless I’m mistaken again) must have been added at the corresponding post editors.
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The links that you’re seeing in the navigation are directly to posts in WordPress (https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/), not pages.
I’d already identified those menu items as links to posts in my second post here. @tomnewpaltz is claiming that duplicates of pages are being created as posts. I’ve only found one instance where this is the case, as I again mentioned in my second post here:
I do find both a page and a post with the title “Tom Meyer.”
Tom Meyer (post) — https://hvwpinvitationalinstitute1718.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/tom-meyer/
Tom Meyer (page) — https://hvwpinvitationalinstitute1718.wordpress.com/tom-meyer/ -
Of course, @musicdoc1. I thought a little more context could be beneficial there, but I did see that you identified that before.
@tomnewpaltz – If I’ve still misunderstood the situation, absolutely let me know and we’ll get you an answer.
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