How do I make posts appear on under my pages
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Hi
I am very new to blogging and need some help.
I have a few pages on my blog related to my topics. I want to publish certain posts under certain pages, does this make sense?
Below is a link to an example, if I was writing about food I had eaten I would like “filed” under the restaurant tab.
http://www.thelondoner.me/search/label/restaurant
Thanks
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It can’t be done. See this earlier support thread: posting on page other than home page.
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Can I ask how other blogs have that function, is it something that’s not compatible with wordpress?
Thanks
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I don’t know about blogs that aren’t here at WordPress.com. Here your posts automatically go to only one page, and that’s usually “Home.” The other pages are for extra stuff, like “About.” You can edit those other pages all you like, but your posts won’t go there. Search engines generally ignore them, and you can’t tag them.
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It’s not compatible with WordPress.COM directly. This workaround works http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
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Pardon me for jumping in, but here is an alternative that I think will work.
When you put posts in specific categories, they are grouped collectively by their topics. Using the Custom Menu feature (Menus) you can place categories in the main menu for navigation. You may also do the same thing with tags if you wish.
This would literally create a “page,” which is actually a category, featuring all the posts in that category in a “list.”
I believe it is very important to understand the fundamentals of how WordPress handles and organizes content with posts and Pages and categories and tags before you start breaking things. Putting posts on Pages doesn’t help much when using Categories and the Menu feature does the same thing automatically.
If your WordPress Theme offers the feature, if you fill in the category description, that text will appear at the top of your category pageview with information (and other links and stuff) about the content in that category like an introduction on a Page with links to the posts.
I like automating these things as much as possible as it gets so complicated doing this manually.
Thanks.
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That’s good, lorelle, but if I may, I’d like to suggest slightly different terminology. You said: “When you put posts in specific categories …” New bloggers may find that confusing, because we don’t really “put” our posts anywhere. I prefer to speak of “assigning categories to posts.”
Also, I don’t recommend this, but if anyone wants to see the most labor-intensive way to accomplish the same thing, at my blog I use Pages for manually-created tables of contents. Each time I post, I then add a link for that new post into the appropriate Page. The Pages are further organized with “page jumps,” to create sub-categories.
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Assigning and putting are just semantics. I am a senior editor for the WordPress Codex and we’ve had a decade of such debates. I also write for an international audience, so I’m accustomed to using simple word when possible to explain complicated things. To many, “putting” something in something makes more sense to them than “assigning,” a big word. Doesn’t matter as it is all the same in the end. Thanks for making me rethink the wording.
Many people create a “site map” listing of all the content on their site, structuring it by categories or topics. Good for you.
You may also do this fairly automatically with the Archives Shortcode. Not always a perfect answer, but it is an option.
Thanks.
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