Posting blog posts to different pages
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Hello,
I am wanting to post my blog posts on different pages, not just on the home page or set up a specific ‘blog’ page. For example, I want to have a recipes page with recipe posts, a fitness page with fitness posts, etc… I am new with the program but I asked google and tried to find the answer but haven’t been successful. If anyone could please help that would be great.
Thank you.
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This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.
So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.
You need to be aware that:
1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.
3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.
So the process you need to use is:
a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories
b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusPlease see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
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Thanks for getting back to me. I have looked through most of those links, not saying I am not an expert or anything :). In the demo that I want to use “Apostrophe” I saw exactly how I want to create mine. On each page there were multiple postings with pictures, a title and a blurb. How was that possible? Is it because I have the free one? I just thought that it was strange that it shows up in the demo but I couldn’t figure out how to recreate it.
I hope I am making sense.
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Your detailed theme description page is at https://wordpress.com/themes/apostrophe/ and that’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://apostrophedemo.wordpress.com/
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Hi there,
Your site, https://findinglaughs.wordpress.com/, is currently using the Lovecraft theme, not Apostrophe.
But what you see in the Apostrophe demo is exactly what @timethief explained. You first need to edit your posts to add categories to the posts. Then you need to create a custom menu, and add those categories to the menu.
To have your posts appear with images like on the Apostrophe demo you need to add featured images to your posts:
But you’ll also need to go to My Site ->Themes and actually activate the Apostrophe theme, as you won’t get your current theme to display that way at all.
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Thank you. Yeah, I was just messing around with it a bit more. So that is why it is not on that theme at the moment.
Thank you for the info!
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Okay, so now my account was reset, which is good! But I am having another issue. When I am in categories under the theme customize tab I am now unable to add another category. It is all going to the one category that is on there which is listed as “travel”. Before I was able to add an “uncategorized” category but now it is not letting me do that.
Not sure what I am doing.
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