Posting to pages

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  jessicaheggem · Member · Jan 22, 2016 at 6:58 pm

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  Hello!

  I am trying to post specific blog posts to the pages I have created at the top of my blog. When I publish the blog post, it goes to either my home page or to all the pages. I can’t get it to go to my Organization page, which is subtitled under the heading, Justice. So, how do I make this work?

  Thank you,
  Jessica Heggem

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  djd00 · Member · Jan 22, 2016 at 7:11 pm

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  Hi, if I understand correctly, you want to have categories in the top menu, so that when you click on one you get all the blog posts filed under that category?

  Here’s info on how to do this: https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/view-all/

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  timethief · Member · Jan 22, 2016 at 7:13 pm

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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) 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-menus

  Also note that this is the link to your detailed theme description page which has set up instructions https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/truly-minimal/ This is the link to the live demo site http://trulyminimaldemo.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jan 22, 2016 at 7:14 pm

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  EDIT: Also note that this is the link to your detailed theme description page which has set up instructions https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/Argent/ This is the link to the live demo site http://argentdemo.wordpress.com/