how to get all my menu items to appear on the menu
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Hi! I’ve just started the blog, so please forgive me if I’m asking a stupid question. I’m trying to construct a menu. I want these items: home, full text, about. I’ve created the full text page, and when I go to edit the menu, I see ‘full text’ in the menu along with home and about, but then when I view the way it looks publicly, all that appears are ‘home’ and ‘full text’. In other words, ‘menu’, which was there before I added ‘full text’, has disappeared. I hope you might be able to tell me how to solve the problem. Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
I want these items: home, full text, about.
That’s what you presently have in the menu.
…but then when I view the way it looks publicly, all that appears are ‘home’ and ‘full text’.In other words, ‘menu’, which was there before I added ‘full text’, has disappeared.
I’m guessing that you meant to say that the “About” page has disappeared, but it is not absent, so I’m not sure what you find missing.
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Thanks. I see now that all three menu items appeared in the menu– it was just that the last appeared so far down it couldn’t be seen on my screen– maybe because the image I use as the header is too long. But my questions is a little different: how do I create a page (in this case, “full text”) and have it appear on the menu as “full text” but not have the same content appear on the front/home page? When I try to do this, the “full text” content appears on the front/home page. Also, for the future, how do I create a page without having what I’ve created also appear on the front/home page? Thanks again!
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Sorry, to clarify: I don’t want a Static Home Page. I want to be able to post new content on the front/home page regularly while also creating new pages whose content does not automatically appear on the front/home page.
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Hi,
…`how do I create a page (in this case, “full text”) and have it appear on the menu as “full text” but not have the same content appear on the front/home page? When I try to do this, the “full text” content appears on the front/home page.
Your “page” with the title “Full Text” is actually a post, not a (static) page. See the Post vs. Page support page for comparative guide to these two types of article. If you set the front page to display posts, as you have done, it will display all posts. It might be possible to hide selected posts from the posts page, with CSS customization, but I don’t know about that.
I want to be able to post new content on the front/home page regularly while also creating new pages whose content does not automatically appear on the front/home page.
Essentially, what you are asking for is the ability to create multiple posts pages. This is not possible because every WordPress.com site can only have one post page. However, you may use category pages to organize posts in various categories, and provide links to the category pages in a custom menu.
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Thanks again!
It seems the best way to go about it is to create a static home page and then create a separate blog page where the most recent posts will appear. But when I follow wordpress directions to do this, and get to the point of designating the blogs page, the only options of pages to choose from are the home (Liberationists (full text)) and about pages, not the blog page I just created. Any advice? Thanks!Creating a “Blog” Page Again, by default the front page of new WordPress.com sites will display posts from your blog. If you prefer to have a static homepage with a link to your blog on a separate page, create a new page and give it a telling name, like “Blog,” “Company Blog,” “Updates,” or “News.” Then head to Customize in My Site(s) and select Static Front Page. Under the “Posts page” dropdown, select the new page you would like to display your posts. -
Hi,
It seems the best way to go about it is to create a static home page and then create a separate blog page where the most recent posts will appear.
The second part of your proposition can’t be accomplished. You don’t “create a separate blog page.” The blog page exists when the site is created, and you can not create another one.
Making the front page a static page doesn’t remove the blog page, it just relocates it. It is still present and functions in exactly the same way as before, except that it is assigned to display in place of a static page. When this is done at Reading Settings or at Customize > Static Front Page, the posts page will display “in place of” rather than “on” a static page.
Most of the confusion is caused by the unfortunate fact that the word “page” is used by WordPress to describe two very different entities. The default front page displays posts on a “page.” But that’s not a static page, and static pages can not display posts.
It might be better to think of the blog or posts page as an archives page. It is really a special type of archives page, one that displays all posts rather than a portion of all posts as archives pages often do. One might think of the content it displays as a combination of that of all category archives pages, or all author archives pages, or all daily, monthly, or yearly archives pages.
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Correction:
The blog page exists when the site is created…
That used to be the case when there was a default “Hello World!” post on all new sites. Now the blog or posts page is created when you publish the first post.
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