Posts to more than one Page

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  shebajones03 · Member · May 14, 2015 at 1:09 am

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  I am trying to set up a blog where the home page shows ALL of my posts, but I want other pages that have different titles, ie. fashion, health, travel, to show the posts that fit with the category. How can I do both ?

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  ariwinokur · Member · May 14, 2015 at 1:33 am

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  WordPress automagically creates archive pages for all of your categories and tags. For example, I see that you have a category of Fashion & Beauty; if you go to https://rashebajones.wordpress.com/category/fashion-beauty/ you will see all posts in that category. It seems that your menu currently has a few of those links. Since you got those created, what issue are you having now?

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  brianmhall · Member · May 14, 2015 at 1:33 am

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  Hi shebajones03,

  You won’t be able to have posts appear on more than one page, but you can use a custom menu to have menu links to categories. This will allow all of your posts to be on your main blog page, while letting you have links in your sites menu that will take you to separate categories for posts of different topics.

  This link will tell you how to set up a custom menu:

  Menus

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  shebajones03 · Member · May 14, 2015 at 5:57 pm

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  Thanks guys I figured it out, and brianmhall you are wrong you can post to more than one page than just the blog page.

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  brianmhall · Member · May 14, 2015 at 6:00 pm

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  Sorry, what I meant is that you can have them appear on a “page” link that consists of just items from that category, but not an actual “page” as defined by WordPress.com.

  You can read about the difference here:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

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  timethief · Member · May 14, 2015 at 6:16 pm

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  @shebajones03
  In fact brianmhall is correct. We can post only to one page in any blog. By default it is the front page but we can chnage that by creating a static front page.

  When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on all 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 category pages to it we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than on page. And, that is what you have done.

  What we need to be aware that:

  1. there are differences between posts and pages
  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 we do what you did:

  Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu and add the dynamic category page links into the menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages