New posts on menu pages
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I am trying to figure out how to create new posts, by date, on a menu page. I want it to look like the posts I place on the home page that are dated. Right now, the menu items have only one page and the new text entered just becomes the text under the previous entry, without any idea of when the new ones are posted. Thank you!
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Static pages that we bloggers create http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ will never automatically update. Only dynamic category pages will do that. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
We organize our posts by use of categories. To organize your posts, assign categories and sub-categories, create a custom menu and include them in it.
Creating a Custom Menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
Adding dynamic Category Pages
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
Changing the Order & Creating Sub-Menus http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusThere is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. However, we can create the appearance that we have done that by setting up a custom menu and displaying dynamic Category page tabs along the horizontal navigation menu. Instructions > custom menus > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
If you want a step by step approach with lots of explanation then see here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
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One more question. Is there a way to create the menu item (category) without having those posts post to the Home menu?
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By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, and know that static front pages are traffic killers, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
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Oh thank you! I don’t want to kill traffic! I will keep it as is…thanks so much for your help!
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