Pages that I add not approved after three hours
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Hi. New to WordPress – so I must be missing something incredibly simple. In my blog http://sivaaalayamwomen.wordpress.com/ I added three pages three hours ago. The pages appear in the Pages widget (I’ve labelled it as sitemap). In my dashboard, these pages don’t show as ‘Approved’. I set up these up as subpages.
Question 1: Who approves added pages: WordPress.com or me, and what sort of timeframe is normal for updates to appear on WordPress.com blogs?
Question 2: I noticed the same thing when I approved received comments – took quite a while for these to publish once I had approved them in dashboard. Again the question is, is WordPress also approving these before they publish?
Question 3: It is possible to navigate to the pages via the Pages widget, but the page labels don’t show up on the Parent pages I linked them to?I would really value any help on these questions, which I couldn’t seem to answer myself from the very interesting Support articles.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The pages became approved after about 5 hours, but I still would appreciate answers to my original questions for future reference, so I can understand the ‘mechanics’ of WordPress better.
I think what I’m after regarding the page tabs is cascading/drop down page tabs, so that subpages are more visible. Is that possible on the Vigilance template? I’ve inserted hyperlinks to the subpages, but the drop-downs would be more elegant, and apparent.
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1. Are you the administrator of the blog? If you are, then your pages should publish immediately.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/2. Depending on the discussion setting on the blog, comments should be visible as soon as they are approved by an administrator.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/If you are an administrator, then I’m not sure what is going on with your first two questions.
3. Only a few themes are designed so that links to child pages appear on the parent page. and only 2 themes have drop-down navigation tabs.
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Dear 1tess (http://1tess.wordpress.com/) I appreciate the help and direction. Forgive my tardiness in replying! After fiddling a bit, I think the problem was with my cookie settings, and things are now running as I would expect from a modern blog. The ‘philosophy’ and structure of WordPress blogs are a bit different to the Blogger blogs I’m used to, but are really beautiful! After reading more in the forums and support sections, I think I’ve grasped the nature of these child pages better. Stay well and thanks for taking the time to respond.
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Hi Alan,
Thanks for the comment. Silly me couldn’t remember who you were. I hang around here too much!
I haven’t ever used Blogger, but it appears that they have only the posting page and an unformatted “About” page. Think of the pages here as bonus place to put information that doesn’t change.
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When using Blogger it’s true that there are no static pages as there are with wordpress.com blogs. However, there is a work around for Blogger blogs that amounts to creating a horizontal navbar and creating posts with backdated dates to link to it that function as static pages do.
http://http://www.reallifeblog.net/2007/09/how-to-create-menu-bar-for-blogger.html
http://www.bloggingtips.com/2008/04/28/creating-static-pages-with-blogger/ -
Thank you timethief—appreciate your wisdom. No experience with Blogger here, so that is interesting information. ( clickable first link:
http://www.reallifeblog.net/2007/09/how-to-create-menu-bar-for-blogger.html ) I’ve bookmarked this for future use.I was aiming at an attitude rather than a technical issue:
I told Alan (who says he is more familiar with Blogger) to think about the pages as a bonus on WordPress.com because many new -to-wp bloggers see that we can easily make pages. But when they discover they can’t post on those pages, they are confused and disappointed. If they took it for granted that wp.com is very much like other blogging platforms with a nice posting page, but (of course) more attractive, and then later discovered how easy it is to add background information to their blogs they would be much happier.
They would also understand more easily how to organize their blogs:
(A.) posts assigned to categories (1.) for readers to find what they are interested in (and 2.) for global tags and search engines to add blogs high on their lists.
(B. ) pages to give readers background or supplementary information.Understanding how powerful categories are is difficult. As I said, I’ve never used Blogger. Are Blogger users able to make categories and tags on their posts?
I do surf around (more than is good for me), but somehow I’ve not paid attention to who is hosting the blogs I like or find. That is, the ones with categories or topics that interest me and I can find easily.
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The assumption that the horizontal static pages tabs are for categories and that they are all dynamic pages that one can “post” to is not limited to those who blog on wordpress software. I think it stems from a confusion between “web sites” and “blogs” and I’ve run into it a lot everywhere I go.
Question: “Are Blogger users able to make categories and tags on their posts?”
No, not really. They (including me as I do have blogspot blogs) can use “labels” that apply to their blogs, but they aren’t picked up by the search engines the way our categories and tags are. That being said, if one is a savvy blogger who does know what the basic SEO elements are for blogs and does use them then it’s not a big issue. When it comes to SEO what I see is profound ignorance in both “camps”. http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/basic-seo-elements-for-bloggers/
I’ve also noted that whether or not one is referring to labels, categories or tags that there are many bloggers in both “camps” who are spamdexing. They are using excessive numbers of categories and tags or labels and many of the ones they use are unrelated sensationalized garbage categories, tags or labels. This does not bode well for the semantic web.
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/wordpresscom-tagging-tips-dont-be-a-spam-dexer/ -
O LOL!
When I first came to wp, you were a rock. Thank you. I learned so much from you, just reading threads then (and older threads) in the forums. My blog turned 2 a couple of days ago!!! I’m glad to see you back here so often.
The power of categories on wordpress is amazing. I just wish it would be easier for new bloggers to understand.
Ta! It’s T-day weekend and I am very tired…
~Tess
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