Question about "Recent Posts" widget…

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  cfsrecoveryispossible · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 4:31 am

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  After three years of struggling with my blog, I’ve recently switched to a different theme, and just realized that I have the option of adding a ‘Recent Posts’ widget. Here’s the issue…

  In the past, I didn’t know or realize this was possible, so on my ‘Updates’ page…it’s basically just one LONG update, instead of a separate post for each time that I added an update.

  http://cfsrecoveryispossible.wordpress.com/updates

  I’d like to add the ‘Recent Posts’ widget, but will the widget automatically and retroactively break apart the past updates…or will it just show up as one post?

  I’d like to be able to separate the past updates if possible, and of course continue this with future updates.

  Hoping you can help,

  Thanks,

  Dan

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 5:47 am

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  It just IS one page, so it will only show as one page. It won’t show in the Recent Posts widget at all, because it’s not a Post, it’s a Page. Sorry to give you the bad news. You’ll have to make manual posts.

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  cfsrecoveryispossible · Member · Jul 20, 2013 at 4:14 am

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  Thanks so much for your reply, I really appreciate it. That’s kind of what I thought…but thought I’d ask just in case.

  So from now on, once I add the widget, how do I make new updates show up as ‘posts’ instead of just another addition to the original page?

  Do I need to start a new page…”New Updates”…or how should I proceed?

  Sorry…I’m disabled in both brain and body. Thanks in advance.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 20, 2013 at 4:50 am

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  You will need to make new posts. Do not keep adding to that page.
  Here is some information about how posts and pages are different:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  For each update you make, on your dashboard, choose “new post” and add a category or tag to each of them. For example, add the category “latest update.”

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 20, 2013 at 5:09 am

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  I’d like to be able to separate the past updates if possible, and of course continue this with future updates.

  If you want to do that, then you’ll need to use the text editor. Go to your update page, change the visual editor to text editor, then one by one copy all the code from one update at a time. Go back to your dashboard, choose to add a new post, choose the text editor, then paste the code for one update into the new post. You can edit the date of the post in the publish module to match the update you have copied.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jul 20, 2013 at 5:12 am

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  Here is what the dashboard looks like so you can choose “new post”
  http://1tess.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/aaa-dashboard-choices.jpg

  Here is what the publish module looks like so you can edit the dates of old updates:
  http://1tess.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/aaa-publish-module.jpg
  click on the edit button next to “publish immediately” and change the date.