Posting on multiple pages in a single blog

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  hookerjn · Member · Feb 3, 2015 at 4:25 pm

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  Hi, I am a teacher and want my students to post to multiple pages (that focus on different aspects of the class; e.g., Units, Projects). Is this possible?

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  galois · Member · Feb 3, 2015 at 4:30 pm

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  I am a teacher and want my students to post to multiple pages (that focus on different aspects of the class; e.g., Units, Projects). Is this possible?

  It’s not possible to add posts to pages. However, you can use categories to create a similar effect.

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  tomterrific1 · Member · Feb 3, 2015 at 5:43 pm

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  What I’d suggest is to use Categories instead of different pages. Each post can be linked to many different Categories.

  There’s no way I know of to make one post and have it post on multiple pages.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2015 at 5:45 pm

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  Hello there,
  There are many misunderstandings and misconceptions when it comes to custom menus. I suggest you read these two posts I link to below.
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

  Technically you can’t post to more than one page on any blog but do read on. Static Pages and dynamic Category Pages are not the same. The former cannot automatically update but the latter do.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  If you want to have pages that do update then they must be dynamic category pages (and sub-category pages) that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category and/or sub-category.

  By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories and sub-categories pages into the custom menu, and order them as you wish.

  First you add categories to Posts.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

  Then you create a custom menu.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  And you add the dynamic category pages into it
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages

  NOTE: Until you actually assign categories to relevant posts the dynamic category pages will have no data that can be displayed on them.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages

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  timethief · Member · Feb 3, 2015 at 5:46 pm

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  Also note that your students must have Author status to be able to post directly to the blog. If you want to approve each post prior to publication then choose Contributor roles for them. http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/