I want to be able to move posts to a new page.

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  brucerpeterson · Member · Mar 30, 2013 at 5:59 am

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  I mainly use WordPress as a travel blog. As such, a series of posts for one trip logically go together. Once a trip is done I would like to be able to move all the posts for one trip to an old posts page and then with my next trip create new posts on a new posts page.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 30, 2013 at 6:19 am

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  What you should do is to make posts about each trip. Do not use pages!

  When you write a post about “Paris” then assign a category to that post, like “Paris” (or if you visit Paris more than once and want readers to see different trips: “Paris 2012” or “Paris 2013”).

  Then put a category widget in your sidebar so readers can quickly see you info and pics from each trip.

  Please read about the differences between posts and pages:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  Here is how to use categories for your posts:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

  And here is information about using the categories widget:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/

  You can also use the categories of where you traveled in a custom menu on your top navigation:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  or use a custom menu in your sidebar:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=custom+menu

  here is a useful article about custom menus:

  Custom menus

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  brucerpeterson · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 4:06 am

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  Thanks for the help. It gets me part way to where I want to be. Te truth is that I really want WordPress to do something that I don’t believe it is designed to do. Since I’m doing travel blogs, while I am traveling, people who are following me will get daily updates and the blog format (most recent date on top) makes sense. But after the trip is over, if someone comes along and finds my blog, it would make a lot more sense to read it in a chronological order – not a reverse chronological order. So I want to somehow have a page that has the posts in chronoolgical order. I don’t need to have the capability automated like the archives function is – I wouldn’t mind going in and individually handle each post if that were necessary. I would like to think there is a hack that would let me do this but I haven’t found it so far. Thanks in advance for your help.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 4:10 am

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  There is, but there isn’t one that will simultaneously let you do a blog in traditional blog order. http://en.support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/

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  brucerpeterson · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 4:29 am

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  It looks like this allows you to have the blog in traditional blog order and then have a series of links to the individual posts in chronological order. The archives function already give me this but it has two problems: It has all the posts for all my trips run together rather than having them separated by trip, and more importantly, if the write-a-book description does what I think (which is a manual version of the archives function), then you don’t get a true book, you get a series of links which if you follow them will get you all the posts in chronological order but it’s not the same to follow a series of links and just read the text of one post followed by the next one and so on.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 4:32 am

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  It sounds like what you want can only be achieved by creating a blog which opens on a static page which has manually-input links to whatever sections you want.