I would like to add a blog to my website…
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Hi..
I was wondering if someone could help me, i want to add a blog to my website http://www.kb-promotions.co.uk but i want it to be in a tab so when they click on the tab it brings up the blog (I want to blog free mixtapes and tunes so people can come to my site and download them from my site).
I have managed to get the name of the tab into Apperance Menus but i cant seem to get that to then go to my tab?? If you get me??Can anyone help me please?
Many Thanks.
Kev.
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You can include Custom Links in your custom menu. Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
What’s critical is:
(1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(2) a clear comprehension of the fact that here is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.
A custom menu allows you to display Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages and custom links in your custom menu as well.
These are the how-to instructions:
How to create Pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
How to create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/1.You add the Categories you want to display and arrange them in the order you want.
2. Then you add and drop and drag the sub-categories below the appropriate Categories.
3. You add the Pages you want to display and arrange them in the order you want.
4. Then you add and drop and drag the sub-pages (child pages) below the appropriate parent Pages.
5. You add the custom links you want to display and arrange them in the order you want. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
6. When you have everything arranged in the menu that you want you save the menu.
7. Go to the “theme location” module at upper left on the menu page. Select your custom menu name from the pull-down labeled “primary location.” Click the save button in that module.
8. Refresh your browser so that it isn’t possibly pulling a cached page, and view your new custom menu with Parent pages and dropdowns to sub-pages, and Categories with dropdowns to subcategories, and Custom Links.
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I dont want to have a Sub-Page or Category on my website.
What i am looking for is a tab at the end which is called “Mixtapes and Tunes” and it to be a normal page but as a blog, so that i can post “Mixtapes and Tunes” on it.
Or am i going to have to create a seperate blog altogether?
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Using the custom menus is how you do that — you set a navigation tab to link to a page. A page should ideally contain content that rarely changes. I think it would be a better choice to have a category called “Mixtapes and Tunes” and each time you add a “Mixtape & Tunes,” you put it in that category. But if you want to have it all on one page, that would work, too.
In the case that you categorize certain posts as “Tunes,” you could then categorize other posts as “blog” or “News,” or whatever you like, and then have the category “News/Blog/whatever” lead to the posts that you want to have considered “blog posts” rather than “Tunes” posts. If you create a page for your Tunes instead, then you could simply have your blog link lead to all of your posts, not just those you categorize that way.
You need to read the docs that Timethief provided the links to, beginning with http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/. You can use wordpress to do what you want to do, but you’ll have an easier time doing it if you read through those docs first.
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Many thanks to everyone.. I got my head round it as i was quite understanding what you were trying to say, but it makes sense now.
Many Thanks for all the help!
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