How to create a page that links to my posts
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What I would like is when the reader clicks on ‘List of Posts’ they get taken to a page that has a list of the titles of all the posts I have written with the date they were written. The reader clicks on the title that appeals to them and they get taken directly to the post. An example of this is http://www.becomingminimalist.com with his page title “Popular Posts”.
I hope I have explained it clearly. If you need to see what I mean look at the becomingminimalist site.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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http://www.becomingminimalist.com/ is NOT a site hosted by wordpress.COM like yours is so be clear on that please. WordPress.COM blogs and WordPress.ORG sites are different https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
You can create a Page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
You can manually enter only the most popular posts links and dates (dates are embedded in post URLs in it.)You can create a Page and use the Archives shortcode on it. https://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/ It will automatically display permalinked titles to all your published posts in reverse chronological order.
You can assign a specific category like “popular posts” to specific posts and create a Page and use the display posts shortcode on a Page you create https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/
You can assign categories to all posts and select to display only the dynamic category page links for some or for all categories in it.
You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different 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:
- Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories
- Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
- Add only the dynamic category page links 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 as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
- Create pages for static content, not for posts
- Add any custom links and other items like static pages into your custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links and https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
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