Please Help Me with My Blog
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How do I put another category at the top for an Index page where I can link all of my reviews directly, so that readers don’t have to scroll through my blog to find a post. I want it at the top of the screen (I have the Academia setting), where my Intro is, to also have a link for an Index – I want to be able to link every film I’ve reviewed in an easy list so that a reader can jump right to a review without scrolling down my entire blog. I don’t mind paying for a premium option, but I would like detailed help if possible. Thanks!!!
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I think your theme automatically lists new pages in the header, so all you need to do is create a new page, title it “Film Reviews” or something, and in that page just add links for each post you want to see there. I do something like that in the Table of Contents at my blog. You’ll have to manually add a new link each time you post a review, but that’s not much of a chore.
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I checked out your posts, and you don’t seem to have a fixed category.
The only common thing you have going is the post titles, be it the “DAD Watch #00 ….”
So just like you added the page INTRODUCTION from the menu, you can add individual links to each one of your posts, to the menu as well.
i.e.
However, you have too many posts and the menu will get out of hand.
I suggest adding the month only as a link from the Menu
http://julesneumanonfilm.wordpress.com/2013/06/
http://julesneumanonfilm.wordpress.com/2013/05/This way the menu will contain links to grouped posts by Month, and as the blog grows, you group them by year.
You should start adding category, so eventually you make your menu link to genre, comedy, action, sci-fi….etc
You can always look at another theme that allows you to use hover-over menus, like the one I use on my blog, so you can have a huge menu-links but still organized.
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If what you want is an index of all your posts (and from a quick look or two at your site, all of your posts are reviews), then I’d suggest using the shortcode for archives on a page. You can add and Index page to your top menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/Each time you add a new post, the archives widget will update automatically.
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You might also look into this:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/It is more complicated to set up, but once it’s up and running will update with each new post.
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Thanks for all the advice. I want to add a menu option, like my Introduction option, where you click it and there is a list of every film I’ve reviewed…let’s say in alphabetical order. I.e.,
Archives by Film:
then each film, like A dollar for dolly, Be Careful, etc…and each would be a hyperlink to the review.I have no problem writing a link for each film, but how would I go about adding a menu option? Can I do hyperlinks, or do I have to pay for that? Thanks for the help again, I am having trouble navigating wordpress on my own.
I would like it
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You write a post for each review, and you use the category Review. Then your category page will automatically list them.
Here is the link with the instructions http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
Your most recent post has the tags: academy awards, american cinema, American film, cinema, cinema history, Douglas Sirk, DVD, film, film history, fun, fun things, hollywood, Imitation Of Life, Juanita Moore, Lana Turner, melodrama, movies, oscars, Sandra Dee, world cinema
and is only in the Uncategorized category. I suggest you edit it and add Reviews to the categories, then update the post. Do the same to all your review posts.
I also suggest you reduce the number of tags you’re using. That many will get you classed as a tag spammer and eliminated from the global tag pages and reader. It will negatively affect your search engine ranking too. Keep the total number of tags and categories on any particular post to under 15 or so.
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Thank you all for the advice. I have been putting all of it into effect. But the one thing I want to do is still unanswered slightly. At the top of my blog, in the menu, it says Home and An Introduction. How do I add a third option, which I would call Films Reviewed, where when you click on it, it is just a list of the films I have reviewed, which can be hyperlinks. NOT the actual reviews themselves, just a place where I put the name of the film and the director as a hyperlink to the review itself. Is that possible? I know this is specific, but I am dying to add that to my blog.
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You can display an index of all your posts using the archives shortcode as I linked to above. The basic shortcode will display a list of titles of all of your posts. It will update each time you add a post.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/Put it on a page, and it should automatically appear in your menu on the top navigation. Otherwise make a custom menu:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/If you want to add the director’s name, then you’ll have to go to the text editor and add the code yourself. Or include the name in the title of each post.
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Thanks to everyone that helped out. It is greatly appreciated and my blog is better off for it.
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