Moving posts to a page
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I just finished the A to Z challenge and would like to take those posts and put them in order under a dedicated page rather than having them on the main blog home page. Suggestions?
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Posts and Pages are different. Pages sit outside the blog structure and we cannot automatically make any Post become a Page or visa versa. Such a conversion is a copy and paste from one to the other and delte the first job.
When you publish posts the software automatically generates the additions of the posts to the dynamic Categories and Archives pages ie. it duplicates them there as well as publishing them to the main page for post in the blog, which by default is the front page.
So the answer to the question is no.
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Thank you for your quick response! I have seen on other blogs, people have done the A to Z challenge multiple years and have tabs on their front page that delineate those. How did they do that? Just cut and paste?
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You can assign a Category to all the posts in the challenge.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/You can create a custom menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/You can add that dynamic Category page into the custom menu so all posts assigned to it appear there.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pagesYou cannot remove the posts from the main page on the blog for posts.
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Those were all helpful links. I followed directions, categorized all my A to Z posts and created a category page on my menu. The page shows up as a tab at the top of my site, but it remains empty–none of the categorized posts are there.
What am I missing??
Thanks again,
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Right now, your new page’s url is: -oops, it’s gone now. I guess you just unpublished or deleted that new page a minute ago.
If you open up your new page from your dashboard, change its url to:
http://ninekindsofkids.wordpress.com/category/a-to-z-challenge/and save, it should work. (Presently, you can type that url into your browser and all of your posts show up there.)
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Yeah. I’m not getting it. Put the new url where? Where it says permalink? I did put the link in my browser and you are right, it does have all those posts in that category. But the page itself from the site is still blank.
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Yes. Open up your new page to edit it and right below your page’s title field where it says “permalink,’ does it show an Edit button next to the url? Paste in category/a-to-z-challenge in the editable field and then click the “OK” button to save.
Then put the page back into your menu items so that it shows up again with the rest of your navigation tabs. Does that work?
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My mistake; I was under the impression you had made a new page to hardcode the url of the category because your menu item’s title was really long and not the actual category of “a-to-z-challenge”.
If you navigate to your Menu page’s Edit Menu tab, go down the left side of the page and click on Categories. Click on “a-to-z-challenge” (is it showing up in the list there?) and then the Add To Menu button. Arrange the order of your menu items the way you want and hit Save.
More on creating Category menu pages here.
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Still not working. I think I did what you just suggested in the first place after the other nice person sent me the links on how to do what I’m trying to do.
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Except that first attempt didn’t have the word ‘category’ in the url which means the menu item wasn’t selected from your categories. It was:
http://ninekindsofkids.wordpress.com/a-to-z-challenge-2014-26-enneagram-basics/So when you go to Appearance->Menus, Edit Menu tab and and click on the categories list (3rd one down after Pages and Links), do you see one called “a-to-z-challenge”?
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Yes. I do see that. Here’s what I have done, let me know if I’m missing a step:
Appearance–menus–categories–check ‘a to z challenge’ (which keeps not being checked every time I go back to try it again.)
Then I click on add to menu which adds another a to z category page since I’ve already done it, now there are two. The first one I put as a child page under “26 Enneagram Basics: at to z” which is also listed as a category page. The second one is now it’s own page.
Then I click save menu at the bottom.
When I go to my site’s home page, the new category page that I just added isn’t there at all. The parent page, “26 Enneagram Basics” is there but it’s blank.That’s all I know to do!
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When I look at your menu, in the ENNEAGRAM submenu, the top item is 26 ENNEAGRAM BASICS: A TO Z CHALLENGE 2014 but it opens to a page whose url is:
http://ninekindsofkids.wordpress.com/enneagram/categorya-to-z-challenge/
Notice that there is no slash “/” after the word category in the url and that /enneagram/ is before category. If you have made actual Pages/child Pages for these, delete them from your Pages dashboard area and remove them from your menu item list. Category menu items can be made from the Edit Menu area without creating new Pages.
The next part is to see if you have made two different menus because I only see 3 submenu items under Enneagram and none show up twice. So you may be editing menu#1 but displaying menu#2.
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Starting to lose my mind. THanks for hanging in there with me. First of all, I think I only have Menu I. I don’t think there are any others for me to get mixed up in.
Second, I just deleted all the a to z pages and category pages so I could start over. I didn’t create any new pages, just went thru menu–category–clicked on a-to-z and saved it. Still nothing shows up on the site.
I don’t understand why so many more pages show up on the site than in the menu. and why does the menu have the pages that it has and not others? Maybe that’s irrelevant, but maybe I’m not understanding the difference between the menu and my list of pages (both parent and children) that show up on the site.
This whole thing made so much sense to me when I was following the directions that I got from the links that the other nice person sent me a few weeks ago. Now I’m just lost. -
“went thru menu–category–clicked on a-to-z and saved it. Still nothing shows up on the site.” If you are making menu changes and saving them but those changes aren’t reflected on your site, your default menu may be only accepting published pages and not categories and custom items.
If your theme supports custom menus, then you can create one. Go here and try following the steps. This link has a more detailed look at category pages.
The category page view you’re looking for exists. It also shows up if users click on your “A to Z challenge” tag in your sidebar’s tag cloud. (looks like the letter Y post needs to have that tag added to it). Hang in there!
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