Quick question about "pages"

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  tinkererofwords · Member · Nov 28, 2014 at 10:54 am

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  Hello everybody.
  I just needed a bit of help. So when I started my blog, I didn’t exactly know that you could add a page for you “About” section, so I just made a new category titled “About” and added 2 posts under it named “About Me” and “About Blog”.

  But now I’d like to get some help in sort of “shifting” this category to become a page. I know I can just make a new page and copy/paste the text from the previous “About” category, but correct me if I’m wrong, wouldn’t that omit any of the comments or likes I had gotten previously?

  I’ve search around but all that I found was somewhat confusing. Which is why I thought of asking you guys here instead, thanks to my lack of understanding! :)

  Thank you in advance.
  ALL the help will be highly appreciated.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2014 at 6:28 pm

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  There is no automatic means of making pages into posts. The two are very different http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ . This is a copy and paste the content into posts and publish them, and then delete the pages and delete the category(ies) job. Also know that static Pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and dynamic category pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/ are not the same thing. The former will not auto-update; only the latter will.

  I suggest working through the step by step tutorial Staff have linked to the bottom of your Admin page at http://learn.wordpress.com

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Nov 28, 2014 at 7:56 pm

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  But now I’d like to get some help in sort of “shifting” this category to become a page. I know I can just make a new page and copy/paste the text from the previous “About” category, but correct me if I’m wrong, wouldn’t that omit any of the comments or likes I had gotten previously?

  Yes, comments and likes are not transferable from post to page, or vice versa. However, you could copy the comments and recreate them with your IP address attached instead, or add them to the page content.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2014 at 8:05 pm

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  @tinkererofwords
  Likes cannot be moved and moving comment is clumsy. If you need step by step instructions to move comments scroll down to “Moving Comments” here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/12/20/wordpress-com-comments-and-discussion-settings/

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  howardtemperley · Member · Nov 28, 2014 at 8:12 pm

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  How do I move items I upload from “Library” to the relevant page on my website? Formerly I was given a choice when I uploaded images. Now they simply go into “Library” and I don’t know how to shift them out of there.
  Howard

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2014 at 8:16 pm

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  @howardtemperley
  I’m sorry but that’s an off-topic question in this thread. Please use this link to copy and paste your text and create your own thread https://en.forums.wordpress.com/?new=1 and we will help you in it.