How do I make a 'Page' a link?
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Hey guys I have two questions.
How do I make a ‘Page’ a direct link to something outside of WordPress?
I found this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-links-to/developers/ but I don’t seem to have a ‘plugin’ section? Is this because I have a free plan?
Second question: How do I make content I have important from TUMBLR all congregate in one page?
Thanks,
KittyThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Good morning, Kitty.
I can definitely help with your first question!
To answer your first question, you can add a direct link to something outside of WordPress in two ways. The first is by editing your menu, or in other words, the space with the links to “Home, About, Press, Styling, Etc.”–
To do this, you will want to add an additional menu items to that space:
Go to your My Sites, and click on Menus to access the links that display on the top of your Blog. From there, you can add another link to your navigation–for more information, click here to access the “Menus” help document. Essentially, you’ll click “Link”, then copy and paste the URL of the page outside of WordPress you would like to navigate to, and voila! Your guests will be able to find it.
Link – Adds a custom URL linking to another site.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/If you want to add a link to a specific blog post rather than your links in the top-right-hand corner of your page, follow this guide here.
Regarding the Plugin Section – that “plugin” section you are referring to only exists on WordPress.ORG. WordPress.COM is a horse of a different color–essentially, WordPress.ORG is all about self-hosting and getting your hands dirty with code and self-hosting. WordPress.COM is all about simplicity; they believe in keeping things elegantly simple in order to make publishing on the web accessible and aesthetic to everyone without confusing the process. So while WordPress.COM offers many features of popular plug-ins, they’re not all necessarily available.
Here is a link to all the plugins that WordPress.COM supports, including descriptions.
For a comprehensive list of all the differences between WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG, please click here.
To answer your second question, I couldn’t find anything about automatically collecting all your Tumblr posts into one page. Here is a link about importing from Tumblr, just in case it helps.
You could use WordPress.com’s Categories feature to create one section just for your Tumblr posts. Essentially, you could go back and add a Category of “Tumblr” to each of your posts; then, people could click on that category tag and see all of your Tumblr posts in one place. Here is how categories work – click here.
I hope that helps! Have a wonderful day.
Sincerely,
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That is a wordpress.ORG support doc and it does not apply to http://kittycowell.wordpress.com/ You can’t install any plugins and there is no upgrade that changes that.
re: plugins
You are confusing wordpress.COM hosted blogs and wordpress.ORG installs on paid hosting. There is no FTP access https://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/ and no blogger installed plugin capability. There never has been as blogger installed plugin capability here as they are not permitted here at WordPress.com for various security reasons. No upgrade changes that reality. Please read https://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/This guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to a Self-Hosted WordPress Site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-to-a-self-hosted-wordpress-site/We provide support only for wordpress.COM hosted sites. Our support docs do not apply to
(1) local installs of wordpress.ORG software on your own server or
(2) wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, and we do not provide support for them at wordpress.COM.WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
If you move to self-hosting, and if you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
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If your site remains hosted here at wordpress.COM please read on.
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 you create and designate as a front 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 and category sub-pages 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 in the order that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes like About, Copyright, Contact Info, etc. , not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes 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 in the order that you wish them that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusPlease see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
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