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  karinadempster · Member · Feb 4, 2014 at 10:47 pm

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  HI

  I have 4 pages right, i want to blog under fashion only about fashion and under food about food only, how do I do that? Because it wont let me whenever i post something it goes straight under “about page”

  thanks

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  andrealyeska · Member · Feb 5, 2014 at 2:54 am

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  It would appear there might be some confusion with the basic functions of the main elements of WordPress; Posts, Pages and how a landing or home page can be either a static page or one with a collection of your latest posts. Also, it appears to me you have a post with your bio that has the same text as your about page, which might be confusing the issue. Briefly:

  Pages are usually menu items: About, Bio, Contact, Testimonials, etc. are common pages. They tend to be used for content that doesn’t change. And, out of the box, those pages do not list posts.

  Posts are more timely. In WordPress, posts generally show up in two places, on the main pages that list posts, and in the vertical column under categories, recent posts and archives.

  If you want to keep posts from different topics separate; the short recommendation would be to use a static page as a landing page, maybe your About page, and then make use of the categories feature and categorize posts. When you’ve done that and got 3-4 posts in a each category, working with the custom menu feature, you may be able to get what you want. Hope this helps.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 5, 2014 at 3:54 am

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  @karinadempster

  You cannot post to a page. Posts and pages are different from each other. Please read details:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  You can write posts and use categories plus a custom menu to make it appear that you have posts about “fashion” and posts about “food”
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
  (tags will also work: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/ )

  Menus

  Here is an article which explains very well how to do this:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

  You can have a static front page, or not—up to you how you want to organize your site:

  Set the Homepage

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  karinadempster · Member · Feb 10, 2014 at 10:01 pm

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  thank you very much I am now going to try and do it seems very difficult )