Nested Pages / Heirarchy ?

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  thecitizenpatriot · Member · May 24, 2009 at 1:08 pm

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  Okay, I’ve read support articles and questions until my eyes glazed over and still haven’t quite figured this out, so I’d appreciate some guidance from some more seasoned bloggers.

  I consider myself fairly computer literate, but this one has me temporarily stumped. I now have thirteen (yes, 13!) pages which appear both across the top of the page (main navigation) and down the right sidebar. I need to “nest” some pages within the main navigation, such as on the “Issues” or the “Op/Ed” page – where I can extrapolate and expand my thoughts on a given subject without losing the reader in a maze of confusing navigation. Currently, the pages are numbered 1-13 to position them in the main navigation, but I cannot keep adding pages forever….. I need a better hierarchy system.

  I have tried adding category titles that correspond with the page titles, and added the “category” widget to the sidebar, with the notion that newer posts assigned to a category would appear under their assigned category when authored, but my sidebar only showed about five or six categories – not all. I was further flummoxed when I realized that any new post I authored appeared on the home page instead of where I intended.

  Can anyone explain to me how to manipulate the appearance and page hierarchy to perform as I’ve described ? The answer is probably fairly simple, but it has – so far – escaped me. Thanks in advance !

  John Bates
  “The Citizen Patriot”

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  ellaella · Member · May 24, 2009 at 1:53 pm

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  Have you reviewed the differences between a post and a page? You would not have been flummoxed; your blog behaved the way it’s supposed to:

  Post vs. Page

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  thecitizenpatriot · Member · May 27, 2009 at 1:16 am

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  See paragraph #3, above……Yes, I know the difference between a post and a page. still challenged.

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  thecitizenpatriot · Member · May 27, 2009 at 1:17 am

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  http://www.thecitizenpatriot.wordpress.com

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  ellaella · Member · May 27, 2009 at 1:25 am

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  I can only say again — your blog behaved the way it’s supposed to. Published posts go only one place: to the blog itself, the dynamic home “page.”

  If you want “posts” on the true static pages, you’ll have to paste the text onto the pages.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 27, 2009 at 2:28 am

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  YOu’ve got your tabs set not to display static pages but local categories. That’s okay, but the problem is, your links on the posts themselves are malformed and go to 404s.