make all posts into links?
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How do I make all my posts into a linked list on the sidebar of my page?
I don’t want to have to manually copy paste every single url somewhere, isn’t there an automated way?What is the quickest simplest way?
I have like 45 posts and they are all properly categorized but I want to put all of my posts into links on the right side of my blog page so they are all easily accessed.
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There is archives shortcode which you can use on a page.
[archives type=postbypost]
It won’t work in a widget.
But it’s easy to copy your list into a text widget.
Open two browser windows, one displaying the list of posts, the other open in a new post or page with the visual editor. Have the two windows visible on your screen. Highlight and copy the list of posts, then paste the list into the visual editor of the second window.
Switch to html editor, select all, and copy the code. Add a text widget and paste the code into it in your sidebar.The widget won’t automatically update when you add a new post, but it’s not too difficult to manually update your list.
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~~ waving to Tess
@ecclesiologyproper
Tess have given you instructions that will help you achieve what you want. I would like to say that I believe 45 titles in your sidebar is too many. Sidebars are shown on every page unless you choose to deactivate it. Some search spiders stop indexing when they reach 100 links on any page and that includes the total number of links in the sidebar and everywhere on the page such as links to static pages, categories, blogroll links, and links in the posts themselves.I would choose to drag and drop the Recent Posts widget into the sidebar and set it to display the 15 most recent posts. I would then make a static Archives pages using the shortcode to display links to all posts.
See > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/recent-posts-widget/
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~~~timethief,
I absolutely agree.
45 titles in a sidebar is too much. SEO aside, that is a lot of text to scroll down through.
As a volunteer in these forums, it is often a balancing act to give a direct technical answer or to give an opinion (based on experience) about how a thing should / could be done. In this case, the OP would most likely come to the same conclusion after, 100 or 150 or 1000 posts listed in his sidebar…
Sidenote: I can’t believe that I did not post the link to the archives shortcode support article. cheeezz…
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@Tess
Off-topic >
Not to worry. When it comes to us Volunteers we excel at teamwork. :) I also agree that answering questions here is a balancing act.Example 1: A blogger wants a mock website based on a static Page structured non-blog with a static front page.
We provide he directions with regard to how to achieve this and relevant links in a thrice. A week later receive an email from the same blogger saying: “You didn’t tell me this would cripple my blog and make it next to impossible to secure decent search engine positioning, backlinks, and a PageRank!”
Example 2: Another blogger wants a mock website based on a static Page structured non-blog with a static front page.
This time we go to great lengths to explain the likely impacts of the choice they are making, and what do we get? A nasty accusation that we are lecturing others and wasting their time. “All I want is instructions!”.
Example 3: Yet another blogger wants a mock website based on a static Page structured non-blog with a static front page.
The third time we answer the same question we carefully provide instructions and links for the how to, and we link to a post we have written that discusses all of the pros and cons of creating a mock website (non-blog). The blogger who posted the question is happy with the answer. He or she reads the post on the blog and thanks us for providing such great information because they had no idea what the impacts would be.
Meanwhile a lurker who rarely answers questions on the support form or who provides half answers when she does, pops up in the Off-Topic Forum saying your answer was rude and the only reason you are answering it to post links to your own posts. (This is despite the fact the links are all no-follow).
Back to the topic >
From the SEO point of view our Categories and Archives ie. dynamic pages are already displaying multiple links to the same post. Therefore, creating any additional links to those posts on static pages or in widgets is not in our blog’s best interest. -
@timethief,
I’d laugh if it weren’t so true.
But there are the answers that do really solve someone’s question, and that makes me feel happy. Sometimes a person who didn’t ask but had the same question even comes by and says thanks.
Why keep doing this? For me, I’ve met and corresponded with quite a few people for long or short times via these forums. When I was a newbie, I learned a lot from reading these forums, and it is sort of now my opportunity to “pay back.” And I continue to learn new things hanging around here…
OK
now:
back to topic…Hope ecclesiologyproper reads this thread…
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I’m trying to copy the way I have the list set up in my blogspot account
http://ecclesiologyproper.blogspot.com/
It is 45 links in the sidebar and because of how it is ordered into 4 widgets it actually works nicely.
Thank you tess, I understand that you have given me the quickest, most efficient way to get my desired result. It seems like there are a lot of widgets that are really unnecessary and if there was ever a necessary one that should be a standard, a widget that turns your posts into links would be it, but wordpress is free so I’m content.
thanks.
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Well, I’m glad that you are content.
The method I described (you could even just highlight and drag to the new window rather than copy paste) really is the most efficient.
By the time you get up to 100 or more posts, though, you may well decide that you are putting too much into your sidebar: readers don’t usually enjoy scrolling down and down.
So, for the future: Maybe by then WordPress will have a category shortcode similar to the archives shortcode. Then you could just link to pages of categories.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/page-tabs-as-external-links/
Not so simple as of this moment. -
The categories widget would almost be perfect except it opens up categories from other bloggers.
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Ah. No the widget opens only posts in your own blog.
Categories and tags above (or below depending on your theme) open to the Global tags where you can find other bloggers who write about what you are writing about. That has pluses and minuses. -
Actually, with iNove, you can show categories as menu items:
Appearace : iNove options cats as menu
and you can turn off categories on iNove as well
Appearance: iNove opitons uncheck Show categories on posts. Save.I really have to go. Hope this helps…
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@ecclesiologyproper
I’d like to mention something else. If it’s only your blogroll links from the blogspot blog that you are duplicating on your wordpress.com blog that’s no problem. However, if you do intend to have two blogs with duplicate content then that can be problematic.Onsite duplicate content is indexed in page clusters with only one page from the cluster being show in the main Google index, the rest go into suplpemental index. This is NOT a problem and can be fixed using the canonical tag or url parameters controls in webmaster tools.
Off-site duplicate content e.g. “Having duplicate content on different domains, i.e. syndicating content”… IS a problem and could result in a duplicate content penalty for the domain that is seen to be copying (i.e the one that got indexed last).
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/demystifying-duplicate-content-penalty.html
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-duplicate-content-caused-by-url.html
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