Moving posts, pages?

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  baileyappleton123 · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 7:38 pm

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  Hi,

  First of all I’m not entirely sure of the difference between ‘posts’ and pages’..?

  I set up my blog at college and was merrily posting under ‘blog’ in my menu. I have now started using my blog at university and have added 2 new menu options, ‘CP1’ and ‘Unit X’. I wrote a post which I wanted to upload to CP1 however it ended up under ‘blog’ in my menu. I have been trying for hours to get round this but have just seemed to confuse myself even more.

  The blog in question is… https://baileyjack7.wordpress.com

  Please help :)
  Thanks in advance

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  timethief · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 7:44 pm

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  See here first https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  There is no automatic way of converting one to the other. It’s a copy and paste into the opposite and delete the original job.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 18, 2017 at 8:53 pm

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  You can create a custom menu on any theme here and it will display the way it displays on the live demo site for your theme.

  Static pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and dynamic category pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/ are not the same.

  You can create a custom menu and include multiple dynamic category pages that automatically display the published posts assigned to the the specific categories in reverse chronological order.

  Dynamic category pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/ created by the software when we assign categories to posts are also not the same as static pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we create.

  You begin by assigning categories to your posts.

  This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

  By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

  So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

  You need to be aware that:

  1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

  3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

  So the process you need to use is:

  a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories

  b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu

  c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
  and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

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  baileyappleton123 · Member · Apr 20, 2017 at 5:45 pm

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  thanks for your response. a lot of useful information there. however i still haven’t got my head round it, i seem to be getting stuck on editing menu’s. it says my theme only supports one menu. All I’m trying to do is move posts from page to page, and be able to select which page i am posting to