Moving my published posts to Categories
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Good Morning.
I want to set up categories for my published posts, but I don’t know how to put those posts in the categories.
I set up a test category Events-test category–and I don’t know how to move and organize the posts.
Thank you.Melissa
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Few minutes Later. I opened a post to edit and then put it in the Events test” category–but this didn’t do much to the look of my page. My page looks the same. Perhaps I need to activate Events test” as a widgit. I’ll try that.
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We assign Categories to post (not pages) and when we publish the software automatically publishes to our Category pages — we do nothing. You cannot post to pages. Pages are static and sit outside the blog structure.
Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
What’s critical is:
(1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.
A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus
Also note that if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page for your site, and also create a “blog” page for your posts to display on, but that’s optional.
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Thanks timethief, I realize the points you are making about static versus active.
I will now investigate the custom menu you discuss (which can go above or horizontal as you said. . .)I like the newest/latest post to show right there on the front page. . .so I’m not going to do a static front page. ..
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