Newbie needs help: Setting up a Category
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I’m told I’ll get more hits if my blog has a category.
How exactly do I do this? I checked the explanations but It’s just not sinking in.
Maybe it’s me, but maybe someone here could give me a nice easy, down-to-earth explanation for a new blogger about how I give my ENTIRE blog a category.Thanks in advance!!!!
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You create categories either under manage > categories, or by creating them on the fly while you write your posts to the right of the post writing area under the top blue bar titled “categories”. To assign a post to a category, you click on the little check box to the left of the category name.
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To change the categories on existing posts, open them for edit and then assign or change categories in the same section at the right of the post editing area.
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And to choose one category to apply to your entire blog, go to Options Writing and set the default category to any particular category you’re already using. That way, instead of them all coming out “Uncategorized,” they will all have the category you choose from now on.
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Im also a newbie and needs help, I made categories at my blog which is Jmakstech.wordpress.com , but I only see general. Help Please!? What raincoster says dosent help me and I think something just may be wrong with my blog?.
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Categories will not show up until they are assigned to at least one post. You don’t even have a post (unless you count the Hello World post that came as default with the theme).
All you have is an about page, and categories cannot be assigned to pages.
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OK. I think I”m confused. I am trying to add to a page I’ve titled Recipes. I’ve had a couple of problems so I’ve deleted what I’ve added after the first recipe. Firstly, I’d like to continue to add recipes to the recipe page and have each one stand distinctly with a comment option at the bottom of each. So far, all I’ve figured out how to do is to add to the previous post to the page, which leaves something to be desired as far as format goes. I am also having trouble getting the fonts to match up. If I write in Word can’t I copy and paste and have some control at the “write page” site? Thanks for any help. My blog is at http://www.marthablom.wordpress.com .
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That is not how blog pages work.
The Pages don’t update like blogs do; they sit outside the blog and just sit there, static. Just write a Post, not a Page, and in the right-hand column where it says Categories, put “Recipes” and hit Add. Then, whenever you write a post, you’ll have the option of ticking the “Recipes” box and if you do, it’ll add that blog post to your Recipes category.
Do not write in Word. It will give you horrendous HTML problems, because it adds all kinds of invisible code to your blog that eventually will screw you up. Write straight in the Post box or use a proper offline blog editor like Blogdesk or Ecto. You can fiddle with the fonts that way and it won’t mess up your blog at all.
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Duplicate question from marthablom:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=22766&replies=2 -
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It’s not just you, though. There’s one guy who’s posted the same thing four times.
Ah. Full moon. Of course.
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Indeed. I’m going to Barnes and Noble in the morning to buy a copy of WordPress for Dummies. I still can’t work out how to write in a category without just adding to what I’ve added above. I was going about my life so easily until I tried this. I liked my fountain pen and legal pad.
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On the page where you write a post, to the right of the text box where you type there’s a vertical row of blue tabs. There’s one called Categories. Click on the + to open it and add in a category in the space, then hit Add. That adds that category to your post. You can’t just add categories without making a post to attach them to, but once you’ve made them and posted something in that category, they stay in the list so you just check them off in future.
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This may help you understand the differences between pages and posts and what can and cannot be done with each.
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In the link I left at 5:26 to her other thread, I linked to the FAQ ‘post and page’ as well as ‘why not to use word’ and left a link to a forum thread about Amazon stores. Her blog has one.
@marthablom – If WordPress for Dummies is for the self-hosted version, much of it will not apply here, but the basics should.
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ella and raincoaster- thank you for your patient replies. it seems i’ve committed some faux pas in posting in more than one area. not intended i assure you. the “for dummies” text is not too technical, i’m not that dumb, just new to the arena.
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It’s not that we think you’re dumb. The problem with the book is that in all likelihood most of it doesn’t apply here and you’ll be learning needless skills that won’t work on your blog anyway. WP.com is deliberately easier to use than WP.org. The book very likely is mostly WP.org stuff. There’s a thread at the top of this forum that explains the differences between the two.
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What rain said.
And without having seen the book, I imagine most of the geeky stuff is what wouldn’t apply here. We really need our own book. *cough*
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