Making a new post also file as a page
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Hello,
On my blog I like making new posts that appear on the home page when you first pull up my blog. However I would also like to organize these posts under my three tabs, “kitchen,” “words,” and “images.” For example, when I make a new post about a dish I just made, I like how it shows up on the front page. But I want to also make sure that it’s listed under “kitchen” so that that tab will have all my food related posts compiled in it. Can someone please show me how to do this? One would think there would be an option just to make it both a post and a page.Thanks!
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thesacredpath! you were so helpful. sorry i didn’t include it:
bellyofjune.wordpress.com
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First off, you need to be familiar with the differences between pages and posts.
What you want to do is to create categories for the different ways you want to organize your posts (kitchen, words, images) and then assign those categories to the different posts appropriately.
Next, you create a custom menu and include those categories in the custom menu along with whatever pages you wish to include (about, etc.). The current kitchen, words and images pages you will delete.
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@almaatl
I can answer your question. We organize our posts by use of categories. There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. However, we can create the appearance that we have done that by setting up a custom menu and displaying Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation menu. Instructions > custom menus > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/In that custom menu you will be displaying Categories and subcategories that you have assigned to your posts in tabs along the horizontal navigation menu where page tabs usually display to achieve what you want.
These are the how-to instructions:
1. You create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
2. You add the Categories you want to display and arrange them in the order you want.
3. Then you add and drop and drag the sub-categories below the appropriate Categories, and when you have everything arranged in the menu that you want you save the menu.
4. 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.
Note: If you wish you can also include Pages, sub-pages and custom links in your custom menu.
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Thanks everyone, that helped a lot. However I don’t just want the items to show up as their name and links. I want to see the actual post. Does this make sense?
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What shows up on the categories pages is theme specific. Some show just the titles, some show the title and a short snippet, and some show the entire post. It was the theme designer’s decision. Take a look at this post from Panos that tells which themes show what.
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