Posts filtered to multiple pages

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  homestart2016 · Member · Feb 29, 2016 at 3:48 pm

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  Hi There.

  I have recently been tasked with creating a wordpress website for a small charity. the reasoning being hind the move from their current website to wordpress is the ease of update, the ability to post to the site without having to pay extortionate fees to a website developer/maintainer.

  But on to the question, Over the course of the last few hours I have added most of the pages I need to but have come to a hurdle google hasn’t really been able to help with.

  The charity in question announces new events quite rapidly as well as news and volenteer oppotunities. This brings me to my dilemma, I would like them to be able to log into the dashboard and create a new post that will go where that want it. I understand there is a ‘static’ post page that all posts go to but I would like 5 or 6 separate pages that I can filter different events to.

  For example I would like to filter all the running events into one page whilst all the cycling events go to another and so on however I want all of these to be on separate pages.

  At the moment I am using the 2016 theme but will also be making changes to the layout and css for obvious reasons haha

  Thanks for taking the time to read, If you need any more information about what I am trying to do dont hesitate to ask.

  Many thanks
  Complete WordPress Novice
  Ken

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  timethief · Member · Feb 29, 2016 at 6:51 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) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page you create and designate as a front 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 and category sub-pages 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 in the order that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes like About, Copyright, Contact Info, etc. , not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes 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 in the order that you wish them that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 29, 2016 at 6:52 pm

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  You can consult the detailed theme description page at this link as it has set-up instructions https://wordpress.com/themes/edin/
  The live demo site is here https://edindemo.wordpress.com/
  The relevant related support docs are here https://support.wordpress.com/