How to add new posts on more than one page without editing original content

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    jamescarian · Member ·

    Hello,
    what I am trying to do on my blog is add different types of content on different pages. My new posts always default to one particular page. What I want to do, as a simple example, is have one page all about the color blue and one page all about the color red. Then I want to be able to share my thoughts about blue today and have that post appear on my “all about blue” page, and tomorrow share my thoughts on the color red and have that post appear on my “all about red” page. Is there a way to do this? Because right now it seems like you can only have your posts appear on a certain page and then they all default to that same page. And I don’t just want to edit the page content because I want it to be apparent that I am updating the content and creating new posts. Anyone know how to do this?

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    airodyssey · Member ·

    Hi. You can’t “add posts to pages”. Here’s why, and how to achieve a similar effect:

    “Posts on pages”

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    What you’re talking about already exists on your blog. They’re called Category pages. All the posts about the colour blue need to be tagged or categorized Blue, etc. Then you make a Custom Menu with a link to the Blue category, etc.

    Note that all of the posts from all categories still appear on the main blog page. That’s how blogs work.

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    timethief · Member ·

    There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. That combined with a custom menu can create the appearance of posting to more than one page.

    A custom menu allows you to display Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages and custom links in your custom menu as well.

    These are the how-to instructions:

    1. You create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

    2. You add the Categories you want to display and arrange them in the order you want.

    3. Then you add and drop and drag the sub-categories below the appropriate Categories, and when you have everything arranged in the menu that you want you save the menu.

    4. Go to the “theme location” module at upper left on the menu page. Select your custom menu name from the pull-down labeled “primary location.” Click the save button in that module.

    5. Refresh your browser so that it isn’t possibly pulling a cached page, and view see your new menu with Parent pages and dropdowns to sub-pages.

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