How to move a page on wordpress blog

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    thevintagescribe · Member ·

    I have a blog post that I would like to move from the home page to another page within the same blog. It should be simple but I can’t see a way of transferring all the copy without copying and pasting. Any ideas?

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    timethief · Member ·

    This is not a matter of copying and pasting at all. It’s a matter of understanding how blogs operate and how to create a static front page and a custom menu.

    We set the number of posts we want to display here > Dashboard > Settings > Reading
    Blog pages show at most _ posts.

    You have two choices on any blog
    (1) All posts on the front page.
    (2) A static front page and posts on a different page.

    By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors who will not be happy to have to click through an About page every time they visit your blog as they come to read your most recently published content. Creating that situation can make some visitors annoyed – so annoyed that they stop following your blog.

    However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for all published posts (not pages) to display on in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.

    To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

    After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change for each page and click “save changes”.
    A static page (select below)
    Front page:
    Posts page:

    The guide is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-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:

    1. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
    2. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
    3. Add the dynamic category page links into the custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages
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