Making a page for podcast episodes and blog posts and having new episodes posts go to the right place and new blog posts go to the right place

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  brainexplained8642 · Member · Nov 14, 2021 at 6:55 pm

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  Hi,
  I need help in making my site, as I do not know how to make the episodes have there own seperate page and the blog posts have their own seperate page and then make the page blog posts have the newest blog posts.

  Best wishes,

  Abdullah

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  kokkieh · Staff · Nov 15, 2021 at 6:19 am

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  Hi there,

  A WordPress site has only one main feed, and that feed displays all published posts on the site. This includes podcast episodes, as those are simply regular blog posts published under a specific category.

  To completely separate the two, first you’ll need to give everything that’s not a podcast episode, a category as well, e.g. “blog”.

  Then go to the Customizer ->Homepage settings, and un-set your posts page you have at the moment. Next go to Menus in the Customizer, remove the Blog page you have there, and instead add links for your “Podcasts” and your “Blog” categories.

  Those will then display the category archive pages for those categories, i.e. feeds for posts in that category only, rather than your full site feed that shows posts from all categories. These are commonly referred to as category pages:

  https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/#category-pages-and-menus

  Let me know if you have any questions about this.

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  brainexplained8642 · Member · Nov 15, 2021 at 4:02 pm

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  Hi,

  There is no add categories section.
  I would be grateful for any advice you could provide.

  Best wishes,
  Abdullah

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Nov 15, 2021 at 5:18 pm

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  Hi Abdullah,

  From the customizer, you go to Menu > Primary > + Add Items and you should be able to see the option to add a Category there.

  

  To add categories, go to My Site → Posts and click on Categories

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  Here are the steps on our support doc to add categories:

  https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/#adding-categories

  Hope this helps. Let us know if you have any questions.

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  brainexplained8642 · Member · Nov 16, 2021 at 2:34 pm

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  Thank you for the help. I have a further question on the homescreen of my website there is BrainExplained in pink and some text below it at the very top of the website but I cannot seem to edit this.

  Best wishes,

  Abdullah

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  brainexplained8642 · Member · Nov 16, 2021 at 2:52 pm

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  I have fixed this problem but for some reason I cannot fix the
  problem which is to display the episodes and blog posts. I have assigned them to their own pages but they are not being displayed.

  Best wishes,

  Abdullah

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 16, 2021 at 8:27 pm

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  They do appear in your category archives as intended: https://brainexplained725864474.wordpress.com/category/blog/ and https://brainexplained725864474.wordpress.com/category/episode/

  The problem is you have pages with these names in your menu, rather than the categories.

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  brainexplained8642 · Member · Nov 17, 2021 at 11:17 am

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  Thank you for the help but now it says category archives and I do not know how t remove it.

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  aleone89 · Staff · Nov 17, 2021 at 3:42 pm

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  Hello there,

  This is standard for category pages on WordPress.com, it may be possible to remove with some custom CSS, but you would need the premium plan in order to attempt the removal of this.

  I hope this helps.