l need to be told !
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No! Keep your blog entries as posts.
BUT when you put that list of all your posts in your sidebar, you must have used a text widget, right? So here’s what you do:
1. Go to your widgets page and find the text widget that you have been listing all your posts in.
2. Highlight all the code in the widget and press CTRL+X to cut the code out. The text widget is now empty, ready for you to start listing October’s posts. (If you are nervous, press CTRL+C which will just copy it and you can come back and delete it all later).
3. Click on Write, and Write Page.
4. In the editor, click the tab that says ‘html’.
5. Press CTRL+V to paste in all the html code you used to have in your text widget.
6. Give your page a title like ‘September 2008’
7. Click to publish your page.
8. Go back to your widgets page and add the Pages widget to your sidebar.You will then have a link in your sidebar to one page which has links to all of your September posts in it, plus a widget where you can start putting links to all of your October posts.
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Oh oh…..
Um….l didnt use a text widget for the list of posts.
l dont know how l did it but l appear to have them all in the Link Categories.
If l click on manage links, l have two Sidebar link sections.
One is Links (that the 3 other outside web site links)
One is Semptember 2008 (that has the 21 posts that are showing in the side bar).This isnt good, is it.
And they do complain. l’ve had 3 unhappy buddies asking me to put the posts back in their dated list, not by alphabet.
l’m going no where fast (but l could follow the instructions above, rosclarke. Just there was nothing there as l’ve sort of messed things up.
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Ah. I really don’t think that Links is the best place for your post links (but that does at least answer the question of why they ended up alphabetically).
If you want the list of links for each month in your sidebar, use a text widget. It’ll be tedious (and again, I’ll say it, the Recent Posts and Categories widgets will be much more effective). Here’s how you do it:
1. Open two browser tabs
2. In one have your blog page showing. Click on the post title of the first post you want to link to.
3. In the other, go to your widgets page. Add a text widget to your sidebar and click on Edit.
4. Copy the url of the post you’re linking to.
5. In the text widget, use the following code:
<a href="URL HERE">POST TITLE HERE</a>
6. Repeat until you’ve linked to all the posts you want.
7. Make sure you click on Save Changes on the widgets page.If you do it this way, you can control what order they come in. And you’ll also have all the html coding you need if you want to make a links page later.
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Roight.
Thankyou so much. l’ll print that bit out and try it now. l’m sending myself spare at the moment and nothing around the house is getting done. (Why dosent anyone else make their own breakfast? Why do l have to do it?)
Will try all that now.
And thankyou again for taking the time to answer. l’m sure there are many other things you could be doing.Cheers
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Ohhhhhh!!!!!!
*bounce*l did it! At least, l think l did. l got what l wanted with your wonderful help.
And it all looks a lot cleaner too.
If they click on September, they get a list of the posts that were made. And l’ve made a page for october but have it hidden so l can remember what to do.
l would never of worked it all out without the input from you all, so thank you once again.
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@rosclarke: If one has many posts, that way is indeed tedious. It’s faster to drag-and-drop the titles of the posts into the visual post or page editor, arrange them the way you like, then switch to html, copy the code and paste it in the widget.
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I have been following the painstaking attention that rosclarke and raincoaster have been giving to morganofercall. I think you Forum Folks are absolutely wonderful, incredibly patient, wildly compassionate, and a gift to us all. Just sayin’ Thanks for everything that you do!
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Yes. l wholeheartedly agree. l were so ready to dump the whole thing and just walk away. Bill Gates was not around when l went to school and we used to press keys downwards on typewriters.
Its folks like those above that encourage newbies (even old ones) to try again until we get it right.
l may not be able to ever help anyone with computer stuff, but l promise to ‘pass it on’ by helping where l can in other fields.
Thankyou so much again.
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