How To: have posts go onto the home page and another page?
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For example, a Premier League match report – I want to post that on my home page because it’s my most recent, but I also want it posted onto my Premier League page. I’ve looked at trying to add a Categories but don’t think that’s the right way to go. I hope you can help me find an option for having posts on both the home and a specific page.
Any help appreciated.
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Hello there,
Technically you can’t post to more than one page on any blog but do read on. Static Pages and dynamic Category Pages are not the same. The former cannot automatically update but the latter do.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/If you want to have pages that do update then they must be dynamic category pages (and sub-category pages) that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category and/or sub-category.
By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.
We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories and sub-categories pages into the custom menu, and order them as you wish.
First you add categories to Posts.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/Then you create a custom menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/And you add the dynamic category pages into it
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pagesNOTE: Until you actually assign categories to relevant posts the dynamic category pages will have no data that can be displayed on them.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusThere are many misunderstandings and misconceptions when it comes to custom menus. I suggest you read these two posts I link to below.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/ -
Thanks, but in the process of creating categories; I’ve now realised that everything is posting. For example, test one is coming under “Football” and “Premier League” which is good, but also “League One” which isn’t what is required. Is this just what is does or is there a way around it?
Basically, every post about football will go onto that page, but ideally, the category will also take it to it’s own home – Premier League/Championship/European Football or whatever.
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If you assign a single category to any post then it will automatically appear on a single dynamic category page after publication. If you assign two categories it will appear on both dynamic category pages and so on.
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Hi, thank you. That’s resolved that, but one small issue. I’ve got a happy Category, I’ve worked it out, however, it appeared somewhere else completely randomly. It’s not a child to the post or anything.
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You can delete any unwanted category from the blog at at Dashboard → Posts → Categories
http://evernsports.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=categoryYou can remove any unwanted dynamic category page from your custom menu at Dashboard → Appearance → Menus
http://evernsports.wordpress.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php
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