how to combine the both post and page modes
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hi, i’ve read the manual completely through, however, i need some help in order to combine the both post and page modes. i’ve accomplished such a task, but i can’t trace the way back how i did manage that. i posted 2 times, then i put the both posts on a page nicely and made a menu tab. now, i can access that page through the menu “Theorie” linked to the 2 posts on the page! please, can’t you tell how should I accomplish all that again? THX
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The point is that the tutorial will be useful for learning how to use this wordpress.com platform.
You have set your front page to be a static landing page. “Startseite”
Your posts appear on “Theorie”Posts and pages are different. The info about the differences is not in Tolstoy, but if you don’t want the tutorial you can read about the distinctions in the Support documents:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/To add another post:
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hi, i’ve read the manual completely through
There is no “manual” for WordPress.com. The tutorial is online. It is a sort of manual, though it’s continually updated as this platform is updated. This may be a misunderstanding due to language mastery but please understand that there are different kinds of WordPress. If the manual you refer to is a printed book, it is not going to help as well as the Support documents here online, nor as well as the tutorial.
There are different kinds of WordPress. Wp.com is constantly changing so a printed manual would be out of date very quickly. Books about WordPress refer to wp.ORG.
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The point is that having understood the nature of pages and posts one would understand that they cannot be combined.
Now, if you want to be polite instead of insulting, I’m prepared to help you. Otherwise, I encourage you to continue to blunder around.
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Gentlemen, I am completely aware of that sort of miserability of the human nature which Dostoyevsky masterfully described. I beg your pardon for my awkward gestures if you feel being insulted. Therefore, I also feel being miserable in my miserability while trying to get to the essence of quite simple things normally not worth to be spoken about at breakfast or lunch. – With all this stuff in mind, I should have preferred not to turn for human help though the online help I got inside describes only plentiful, superficial, outer things while internal mechanisms are transparent for developers only.
True, the mechanisms of making pages and posts are not to be combined just as their principles. But I meant merely the phenomena only, or “would-be” results in the sense that the system would be “foolished” or neutralized through some certain manipulations known to experts only, not to a beginner like me. That makes a substantial difference among developers, experts, and just starting users; otherwise experts like you yourselves would neither be looked for nor engaged in such matters.
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“…would-be” results in the sense that the system would be “foolished” or neutralized through some certain manipulations known to experts only,…
The way your site was arranged when you first posted, you had a static front page, 1 or 2 other pages, and a “page” (menu / navigation tab) set to show your posts.
At this time, you have a static front page, and several other static pages (some with child pages), and no specified page for your posts. Now your posts can be found only by way of the sidebar widget.You can still add posts as I noted above:
dashboard—>posts—>add new—>type—>publishIf I’m understanding you correctly, you want to make the top navigation to include posts so that they appear to be pages about specific topics so your readers can easily find articles by category.
Is this what you mean?
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If so, then you can assign categories to each post. Then use a custom menu to link to the categories.
Your post Schicksal und Wesen der Dialektik is assigned to the category Dialektik which is this link:
http://cuneiformblog.wordpress.com/category/dialektik/
Your post Test is assigned to the category Kontinentale Philosophie which is this link:
http://cuneiformblog.wordpress.com/category/kontinentale-philosophie/With those links you can build a custom menu with navigation tabs for each category. Readers clicking on Kontinentale Philosophie will find your posts on that topic.
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Dear 1tess, does ‘tess’ imply in English the meaning “being female” or am I mistaken?! – I addressed you as if you both were ‘Gentlemen’… However, I have never heard in my life such an understandable explanation or else explication of a problem so didactically correct presented in English. God bless you, as from now on I can fall asleep until tomorrow while knowing in fact that couple of tricks which enables that great combination of styles in the blog! Because it is so important for a professional writer first just to write some scraps of text, then let have it discussed, and then to transform those scraps to stable pages which can be “called up” eventually from the menu!
I feel so much indebted to you for this help, thank you very very much indeed! Discussing Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky was meanwhile just a little marvel of today. Have a nice time!
PS. I have made a copy of your text on a stick cause I can forget something while migrating from one PC to another and from one theme to another, too.
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Now, I feel I have to say something else. Posts are in a flow of time and occasion. Categories and posts both are quite numerous in themselves. On the other hand, “pages” (in fact chapters or parts of a text) are always limited just like the number of tabs within the menu. Therefore, the idea would be to let posts and categories appear as pages and to link these pages to the menu to let the readers find posts appearing as pages by tabbing, e.g. the tab Theory will introduce some posts like Schicksal und Wesen der Dialektik and Test within the only one page! There is even one more possibility to introduce posts as archives, which is great, too! Right instead of the complete content presentation as I did.
and no specified page for your posts
as you wrote. Correct, as I didn’t know how to specify it for that purpose. At some point of time, however, I noticed that Schicksal und Wesen der Dialektik and Test
got linked to one and the same page through certain manipulations of linking. Now, I would like to repeat that process, but I do not know how exactly. My tries were not successful. -
WordPress treats categories and tags the same way when it comes to making links in a custom menu.
On Test you can see this:Schlagwörter: Dialektik, Logic, Metaphysik
By falke777 in Kontinentale Philosophie on 28/07/2013.so by clicking Dialektik, it also links to the category you used for Schicksal und Wesen der Dialektik
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It is not good practice to use the same words for both categories and tags. For one thing, it is confusing. For another it is not needed because as I said above they technically perform the same function.
For organization, though it’s useful to think of them as different from each other. Categories are best used for major classification and tags work for specific details.
Also note that one post can have several categories. That is how Schicksal und Wesen der Dialektik and Test became linked to the category page. You can do that on purpose.
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You’ll find the support articles about categories and tags here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
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This is becoming very long, but there are a lot of details. That’s why I’m breaking it into shorter and easier to read sections.
Therefore, the idea would be to let posts and categories appear as pages and to link these pages to the menu to let the readers find posts appearing as pages by tabbing, e.g. the tab Theory will introduce some posts like Schicksal und Wesen der Dialektik and Test within the only one page!
Yes, this is one way to customize your menu. The categories will become the tabs on your menu. When clicked, they will reveal the posts in that category. This is the reason you need to understand how to use categories (and tags).
When you are ready, you can read this support document about how to build your custom menu:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
But I’d recommend this article from fellow volunteer Panos because it is well written: -
Raincoaster and I are both female. Panos is a gentleman. As for Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, they are always good for injecting a bit of humor into a conversation.
And I appreciate your compliment. ≥^!^≤
One more thing to think about is as you said:
There is even one more possibility to introduce posts as archives, which is great, too! Right instead of the complete content presentation as I did.
Archives shortcode will easily generate a list of all your posts:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/If you have a lot of posts on one of your custom category tabs, you can shorten what your readers see, and thus show more posts per page without affect page load time by using the more tag:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/There is another shortcode which I like, but it’s a bit complicated and would be better addressed after you have more content on your site.
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A lot of thanks again. Provided I got cleared in solving my problems with this blog, and if I would like to add, say, a WP Forum to it. Should I place it anywhere else, not at wordpress.com? Is there any free host known for WP plugins?
raincoaster
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Jul 29, 2013, 11:49 AM
We’d get nothing but complaints that they were too long and depressing.You know, the whole Western civilisation as against all others developed only due to the single idea of d o u b t e d n e s s in this world, whether it does exist or not, what the truth is, etc, while all other civilisations did not even think of that, religion and myth were the only stations of mind to them. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky questioned the human being in itself with the main idea that a human being is always a questioned, doubtful one. There is no human being without doubt.
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After Dostoyevsky, it was Kjerkegaard who wrote the first ever book on Existentialism in the West. From that time onwards the human being and existence is mainly considered as depressing and very much problematical in the whole Western culture.
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