Please Help!!!
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Argh!! I’m so frustrated, please say someone has an answer for me…this is my issue.
I want THREE tabs for my blog, and the template I am using which I do NOT want to change if I can help it, comes with a standard “home tab”. – So I made this home tab my static page, and put my “About Me” information on it. However…I had to do this by making a new page and setting it as the parent page because I can’t edit the “home tab”, there is no option to do so. So now I have two tabs on my page that have the same “About me” information on it, and I can’t hide one, or I’m doing it wrong, idk.
But I want my home tab, then two other tabs….and its one big mess right now. My blog url is http://www.Brekat23.wordpress.com and forgive me for having it messy and sloppy because I’ve been fussin with this all day now and its doing the same damn thing. Any help would be MUCHO appreciated. Thanks guys.
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I have looked at your blog and assume that you haven’t blogged before. There are huge fisfferences between static Pages and posts. Tou have a static Page you have titled “Latest Post”.
Please read what the differences are understanding that if you do care about having a blog that attracts a growing readership then using static pages for anything other than information that rarely, if ever, changes (examples: About, Contact, Copyright) is not wise. Static pages cannot have categories and tags assigned to them and they have and create very little Google juice. Choosing to have a blog based on static Pages rather than on posts which can be assigned categories and tags amounts to playing hide and seek with search engines and slaughters your blog’s ability to earn PageRank.
Please read this support documentation entry first and then we will address your blog ideas.
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Please excuse the typos above. The second and third sentences were meant to read:
“There are huge differences between static Pages and posts. You have a static Page you have titled “Latest Post”.
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Hey timethief thanks for ur swifty response haha. The idea I had for my blog is this (let me know if you think its good or bad)
I wanted three tabs at the top of my blog
1. Home – where I send my readers too, and on this home tab I was gonna have a link to my blogs as well as put information about me on it.2. My Blogs – I have my blogs organized into 4 diff. categories so I was gonna put a link and information up on all 4
3. Recent posts – this is where all of my posts are and the most recent one is always on top.
This is how I would really like to have it, because I’d like my visitors to be able to choose which blog category they would like to read of mine, instead of just reading through them all randomly on the tab where they are all combined. But then again, your right – I’m not a big blogger, so I don’t know what would be best.
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Re: 1
Please what you mean by “my blogs”. Are you referring to individual posts in this same blog? Or are your referring to separate free standing blogs with posts in them? -
I write in 4 different blog categories
1. My IM Journey
2. My Poetry
3. My Creative Works
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4. My Random Blog -
We have a Categories widget and when you poblish a post and assign Categories widget to it that posts’ permalinked title will be displayed in the Category widget in your sidebar.
Until you have actually published a post assigned to a Category the Categories widget has no data to display. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/
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Let’s go back to what you mean by “my blogs”. You have a myspaces page, a Facebook page and a Hubspot page. Are these what you are referring to as “my blogs”?
If so then you can enter the Links to them in your Admin area and place a Links widget in your sidebar. Once you have entered a Link and assigned a category to it it will display in the Links widget in the sidebar.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/
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When it comes to actual posts, not static pages then you will find we have a Recent Posts widget you can place in your sidebar. Immediately after you publish a post the Recent Posts widget will display the permalinked title to that post. You can set the Recent Posts widget to display up to 15 of your most recent posts. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/recent-posts-widget/
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@timethief: “”Latest Post” (now “Most Recent Post”) isn’t a static page – it’s brekat’s posts page.
@brekat23: Hiding the redundant tab is explained in the Support doc on static page:
As for what you’re looking for, you can simply add the Categories widget for your sidebar, as timethief says. Or you can temporarily add it, copy the category URLs from the address bar of your browser and write links to them in the page you’re thinking of creating (“My Blogs”).
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If however, you do not really want a blog and you don’t care about Google juice or PageRank or backlinks and what you want is a mock website that can be done. But first you need to tell me if you do wish to have a blog that gets backlinks, has Google juice, and achieves an PageRank. Once I know that then I can tell you how to make a non-blog.
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Wow, thanks for all the replies! you guys are awesome! I think I would like to have my blog have good google pagerank, however I wasn’t aware of the categories widget. I’m gonna play around with my blog alittle more and see if I can’t make some changes that’ll work for me. Thanks so much for all of your help!
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@brekat23: You’re welcome.
@timethief: What was more confusing in this case was brekat’s use of terms (like “blogs” for categories).
PS I’ve got one “non-blog” too!
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FWIW brekat23 has visited my blog and left a comment which I replied to. If you want a non-blog that’s cool, but if you expect your non-blog to achieve Google juice, backlinks and a PageRank you may be chopping off your nose to spite your face.
The way a blog is designed to work is that only one page (usually your front page) will automatically update with the new posts you publish going to the top of the order. The other pages you create sit outside the blog structure and they do not automatically update because they are for static content that rarely, if ever changes.
Pages cannot be assigned categories and they do not get the same Google juice that the posts on your front page do. The front page of a blog is where the fresh content is and most readers and Google juice goes to it. Making a front page into a static page withe content that does not change and provides no posts that other bloggers can backlink to will have the effect of hampering the blog’s ability to achieve a PageRank, and it will also have the effect of peeving off anyone who is a repeat visitor as it compels them to click through blah, blah, blah they have read the first time they arrived on the blog.
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