posting articles to a page
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I have many articles I want to post to a page. I know they can be hotlinked as a list and then opened individually but I don’t know how to make this happen. Previously I was instructed to start at “Manage” and Pages to first write the article, but I cannot find the word “Manage” any where on the dashboard, or elsewhere.
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The dashboard changed in Dec. 2008:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/a-guide-to-the-new-dashboard-pt-1/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/Your blog appears to have only one post right now, on your dynamic home page.
Your blog has several static pages: ‘About’ ‘Classes Lessons Private Sessions’ and ‘Published Articles.’Posts and pages are very different from each other:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/Standard blog structure is to use pages for information which doesn’t change often. The heart of your blog are the posts you write. To organize your posts, use categories.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-categories/You can organize your static pages into hierarchies by adding child pages. For example you might make ‘Published Articles’ the parent page of ‘article a’ ‘article b’ and ‘article c.’
You could link to articles a, b, and c on the parent page or use a page widget. -
Here are a couple of threads from this forum which go into details and implications of using posts vs pages:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/making-post-in-a-page?replies=14
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/link-a-post-to-a-page?replies=21 -
Okay, I read your responses. Thanks. What I want to do is, under “Published Articles”, have those articles listed in the body and hotlinked so they then open. I actually had this set up last year but had to delete some of the information and I do not know how to get that format back. Now I see, from your response, that that format no longer is applicable.
I do not see how to do what I have in mind, from the above info. I know the difference between a post and a page, just not how to resolve this. I also tried the link function but that just put the entire post on the welcome page.
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Hotlinking is stealing bandwidth you don’t pay for. Is that what you are truly trying to express?Somehow I don’t think so.
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I would like the child articles (on the Published page) to be “hot” so that they can then be opened. The articles are long so I don’t want (reams of pages) on the the parent page.
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No formatting options were lost when they brought in the “new” dashboard.
Right now you have your Articles page linking to itself. You could make child pages for your individual articles which would then each open in its own page by writing links to each on the parent “Articles” page.
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I copied the support information to a previous poster on same subject, about widgets and categories.l’ll study this and try to figure it all out.
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Your child pages can have live links from the parent.
For each separate page, you can also use pagination or read-more.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/ -
So is this a better method, jumping and such, to accomplish what I want (having children articles on the parent page) or would the category/widget information I copied work better? Sorry, I’m confused and need the easiest method possible.
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The pagination/ content splitting/ read-more was in reference to your comment,
“The articles are long so I don’t want (reams of pages) on the the parent page”If it were me, I’d write the articles as posts and assign them to appropriate categories.
There are two major benefits of using categories:
1. They organize your blog so readers can easily choose which topics they would like to read about.
2. Using categories gets you into the global tag system on WordPress, which helps get your blog noticed by search engines.The other way would be to make a parent page which would have titles of your articles being the links to the articles (child pages).
Readers would have to go to your parent page index and choose an article title in order to read it, then go back to the parent index page in order to read another article. -
1tess, sorry to go on and on about this, but your last suggestion is exactly what I’ve been trying to do (for weeks), but to no avail. In other words, I already have one child title up but it opens to nothing. If I try to make it open to something it then appears on the welcome page. This is the crux of my dilemma – how to get those children posts to 1)appear hot (as a link) and 2) then open when activated.
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leatriceasher
No worries.
Below is a link to your page called “Published Articles”
http://leatricea.wordpress.com/published-articles/
On that page, you have a title:
“Pain, Bane of Our Life or Catalyst for Transformation”
That title is a link to the page it is on!
That is where your problem is. You need to make a page for the article. Or do you already have that page?
Go to pages —> edit —> and you should see a list of all of your pages.
Do you see the page “Pain, Bane of Our Life or Catalyst for Transformation?”
If so, then all you have done is to write its link incorrectly on the Published Articles page. -
<clockquote> This is the crux of my dilemma – how to get those children posts to 1)appear hot (as a link) and 2) then open when activated.
The theme you use Ambiru will NOT automatically create a link to child pages from parent pages. If you wish to have “links” to child pages from parent pages then you must create them manually.
Alternatively, you can create a custom menu in Ambiru and enter “custom links” to the child pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
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@tt
She has manually made a link on the Articles page, but it links to the wrong page. That is, it is linked to the Articles page itself, and not to the page with the article “Pain, Bane of Our Life or Catalyst for Transformation?”
If you see what I mead? -
tess, if I write the article as a page and then hit “publish” it ends up as a header along with “about” “classes”, etc., so then I trash it … again and again! I can easily write the article under “Pages” but how to link it correctly to “Published Articles”, if you get my drift.
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You need to make the article into a child page:
Read this link from my first answer again:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/
Where it says “parent” that is where you want to drop down the menu and make your new page a child. -
That is to say, assign your new article to the parent page “Published Articles”
You do not want your article to be a parent page because it will appear in the top navigation bar, just as you have seen it do.
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I just occurred to me, perhaps you do not see the “Page Attributes” module?
If that is the case, look in the upper right of the edit page screen to find “screen options.”
Open that, and be sure “Page Attributes” is checked. You need that module to make your new pages children of other pages. -
Hello again Tess,
I think I did exactly what you suggested, made the article page a child of published articles but when I hit “Publish” it didn’t appear at the site.
Thanks for all your help!
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