How can I make it to where people can find articles faster?

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  rdwt · Member · May 9, 2013 at 2:25 pm

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  I am making my (Dont know to call WordPress a website or blog) for educational reasons. New people are coming on, but they have to navigate the entire site to find the article they need. Is there a way that I can make it to where a person can find them easier? Say a person needs more information about thesis statements. Is there a place on my wordpress in which he or she can just see the name of the articles and click on the articles about thesis statements? Thanks.

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  ianaleksanderadams · Member · May 9, 2013 at 2:33 pm

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  Sure, there’s a few ways you can add navigation to your blog. Some themes have menus you can build, you can read about that here:

  Menus

  Also, you can add widgets to your sidebar with almost any information you’d like:

  Widgets

  For example, you could put in a Pages widget that links to a page with a list of links to the article they would like to see:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/pages-widget/

  Or, you could use a text widget to display the links themselves:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

  For example, you could set the title to be “About Thesis Statements”

  and then inside the widget have a list of links with html code like this:

  First Article

  Second Article

  First Article

  There are a few other options for using widgets – and plenty of ways to use html code in the text widget, so check out all the available ones until you find out exactly what you’re looking for.

  Let me know if you need help setting any of that up.

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  ianaleksanderadams · Member · May 9, 2013 at 2:35 pm

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  Oh, another good option I should have mentioned is by adding metadata like Categories to your posts. Once you’ve applied categories to a group of posts, just drop in the categories widget!

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/

  Your users will be able to select which set of posts they’d like to read. Right now it looks like you’ve already got the categories widget in your sidebar, along with some other default widgets, but might not have any categories assigned to your posts yet. Maybe that’s a solution as well.

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  auxclass · Member · May 9, 2013 at 2:42 pm

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  Use the Archive Short code – make a page listing all the articles

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/

  There is also an archives widget you can put in the sidebar – just drage & drop

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  rdwt · Member · May 9, 2013 at 5:44 pm

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  Thanks, this reall helps :)