How To Turn A Text Page Into A Blog Page?
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Hi,
I’m trying to turn this page [https://wbtrading.wordpress.com/blog_/] into a blog page, where each post is clickable and then take]s you through to read it.
At the moment I have one ‘blog’ style page aka the “my trades” page here [https://wbtrading.wordpress.com/blog/ which is exactly what i want my actual “blog” page to look like, but i’ve no idea how to make this happen.
i hate how the blog page is currently all text and you have to scroll through each post in full to get down to the following ones.
can anyone help please? thanks for your time.
will.
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Hi will, so you already have one blog page and you want another? Did you want maybe just the posts for a specific tag or category to show?
If so, this would work:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/You can do something similar with tags, too. Just note it would add /category/ or /tag/ to your address.
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hey supernovia,
that’s right, i already have one blog page [“my trades”], but i want another. as i said above in my original post, the “blog” section of my site is currently just one large text post at current, but i want to make each text piece into it’s own clickable page [the same as the “my trades” page]. can i add a second blog page?
thanks for the help!
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Hi there,
You can achieve the effect of a single blog page showing a group of related posts by following these steps to link to an archive of all posts in a certain category.
1. Assign the same category to all of the posts you want to appear on a given page.
2. Create a custom menu in Appearance > Menus.
3. Using the “Categories” module to the left of the Appearance > Menus screen, add the categories you want to appear as pages to your menu, and drag to arrange them.
You can review the full details here:
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Thanks for the response fstat, the only problem is, my “blog” page would then show all posts which would be confusing as my existing blog page is actually “my trades”, so it’d solve the blog problem, but open up the problem of having blog posts on the “my trades” page. does that make sense?
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Hi williamdcbrown,
i already have one blog page [“my trades”], but i want another.
So we can look at other options, can you tell us more about why you would like to create two blog pages? And what would be the difference in the types of posts/content added to “Blog” vs “My Trades”?
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Ah, brilliant. Yeah sure, so the My Trades page is all about my trades taken as a trader and the Blog page is for articles in regards to tips, tricks, about the way I trade and so on, so as they’re two different sources of info they need to be separate pages. At the mo though as I’ve said, the Blog page is one big chunk of text unfortunately, so it’s difficult to digest and wade through. If I could simply turn it into another blog page that’d solve the problem! Help?
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My suggestion would be to create two categories, blog and my trades. You can then add the blog and my trades categories to your menu.
Alternately, you can again create the two categories, assign those categories to the posts appropriately, and then create two pages, blog and my trades and then use the display posts shortcode on each of those pages and set it to show only those categories of posts, and then add those pages to your menu.
The latter is just another way of doing the former, but more work.
You might want to give this a try. I believe it will accomplish what you are wanting. If later you wish to have another category of posts, it is just a matter of creating that category, assigning it to the posts, and add the additional category to your menu.
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Category pages are essentially a “blog” page that displays posts only from a certain category.
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Thanks again for the help but this doesn’t seem to work unfortunately. Yes, I can use the categories pages as mentioned which is great, thanks for that, but the main ‘blog’ page is still there on the menu and then I end up with:
– Blog page [With all posts on, so this looks messy and jumbled]
– ‘Blog’ page that do I want [i.e. the page I’ve created using categories as suggested]
– ‘My Trades’ page that do I want [i.e. the page I’ve created using categories as suggested].
Is there a way to hide the overall master Blog page from my menu? I’ve gone into My Site > Site Pages > but the only options are ‘stats’ and ‘copy’ when I click the three vertical dots to try and edit or do something.
Getting closer…
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Hi williamdcbrown,
Is there a way to hide the overall master Blog page from my menu?
There is, yes. The “Blog” link can be removed from the menu in My Sites > Customise > Menus > Primary. Click on the “Blog” link, select “Remove” and publish the change.
There won’t be a blog link in your menu afterwards but the page itself will still exist for people to visit.
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