Moving blogs to categories

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  thefrontwindow · Member · Mar 22, 2011 at 7:44 pm

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  I want my blogs to shift to the proper categories after they’ve been up for a period of time. Then people can go to a category to search for a specific blog.

  I also wonder about how to make only the first part of a blog to appear on my front page with a “for more, click here” tag that will take them to the full blog.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 22, 2011 at 8:31 pm

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  I’m guessing at what you mean in your first paragraph. To be clear we do not “move” anything in wordpress.com blogs. When we publish all Categories we assign to posts are automatically displayed in the Categories widget in reverse chronological order just as they are displayed on your blog. If you wish you can use the Category Cloud widget instead of the Categories widget. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/

  The same is true of the Archives widget. When we publish we enter nothing the display is automatic in reverse chronological order just as they are displayed on your blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/archives-widget/

  Instructions for splitting content by inserting “the more tag” are found here. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 22, 2011 at 8:46 pm

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  TT beat me to it. :)

  If you haven’t already done so, might I also suggest that you read http://learn.wordpress.com/ which is a wonderful guide for new users of WordPress.com

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  timethief · Member · Mar 22, 2011 at 8:46 pm

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  It’s also important to know that widgets cannot display null data. Until you have actually published a post with a Category assigned to it there will be nothing for the Categories widget to display.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 22, 2011 at 8:47 pm

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  ~~justjennifer
  G’day to you. :)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 22, 2011 at 8:58 pm

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  It’s important to know that widgets cannot display null data so until you actually publish a post with a Category assigned to it there is nothing for the widget to display. The same is true of Links widgets as well.

  If you actually wish to display your Categories along the top navigation menu on your blog then you will have to create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  1. You create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  2. You add the Categories you want and arrange them as you desire.

  3. Do NOT add any sub-categories (the link covers how to do that if you want to at a later date).

  4. When you have everything in the menu that you want (and nothing you do not want), save the menu.

  5. Go to the “theme location” module at upper left on the menu page. Select your custom menu name from the pulldown labeled “primary location.” Click the save button in that module.

  6. Go to your blog, refresh your browser so that it isn’t possibly pulling a cached page, and see your new menu without sub menus