New Post in Wrong Place

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  memoirsmemoriesandmoments · Member · Jun 8, 2011 at 3:21 am

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  All right, I’m almost fed up with WordPress…
  I have several pages on my blog. I wanted to publish a new post on the “Travel” page, but it keeps ending up on the “Home” page. It’s the the right post, but in the wrong place. HELP PLEASE!
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  Dianne Kimberly

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  airodyssey · Member · Jun 8, 2011 at 3:28 am

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  Hi Dianne. First and foremost, I think you should familiarize yourself with the concepts of posts, pages, and categories. This is a good start:

  “Posts on pages”

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  mmadfan · Member · Jun 8, 2011 at 3:29 am

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  You can’t post to any page but the home page. Your Travel page is a page (static content), not a blog post or a page with blog post content, so you cannot post a new blog post to it. What you can do is create categories, such as Travel, and assign each post to a category, then have the links in your menu lead to those category pages. That will give the appearance that each post has been posted to a separate page.

  This will help you: http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  And this: http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  And: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

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  airodyssey · Member · Jun 8, 2011 at 3:29 am

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  I almost forgot: you are using a theme that has a homepage quite unlike the others:

  Guide to The Morning After

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  airodyssey · Member · Jun 8, 2011 at 3:30 am

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  mmadfan summarized what is explained in detail in the first link I gave you :-)
  (Obviously we posted at around the same time)

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  mmadfan · Member · Jun 8, 2011 at 3:33 am

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  ~~airodyssey

  Yes, I didn’t note the theme was Morning After — that is an unusual one, and I think it’s particularly tricky to work with if there’s not already quite a bit of blog content — or at least some — to work with, for featured posts and so forth. It looks nice, but when starting out a blog, it might not be the easiest one to work with.