Moving posts

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  codonthecast · Member · May 9, 2011 at 10:59 am

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  Hey guys setting up a blog and I am needing some help moving a post from home into articles, another page.
  Any help very much appreciated.

  Cheers, Joe.

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  codonthecast · Member · May 9, 2011 at 11:00 am

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  Hope that my post doesn’t seem rude. I’m just after some help and trying to work it out myself is driving me insane!

  Cheers, Joe.

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  linearfix · Member · May 9, 2011 at 12:01 pm

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  Hi Joe, do you mean you want to change your front page? If so visit the support at: http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ or are ‘home’ and ‘articles’ categories which you post in. If so, edit the category in by editing the post.

  Please provide additional details on what you wish to do. Thanks.

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  codonthecast · Member · May 9, 2011 at 9:50 pm

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  Thank you for your reply. I am trying to move a post from the home page, to another page that I have named articles. If this makes any sense at all.

  Or is there a way that I just can’t see to put a post under another page, not just straight to the homepage?

  Thanks and I’m sorry for not being much help when you are trying to help.

  Cheers, Joe.

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  timethief · Member · May 9, 2011 at 10:50 pm

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  There is not way to automatically move a post and make it a a page. It’s a copy and paste job because pages sit outside the blog structure.

  Staff have provided this support documentation entry for those who want to structure their blog like a website which is what you want to do. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  What’s critical is to understand when creating a website structure is the following:
  1. The differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages.

  3. We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. Although there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance we have done so by creating a custom menu. In that custom menu you will be displaying Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation 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 and sub-pages of your own choice and custom links in your custom menu as well.

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  codonthecast · Member · May 10, 2011 at 5:38 am

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  Cannot thank you enough. I think I may now have it worked out. That is loads of info and will help me now and in future.

  Thanks again, joe.