Reading from top down
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When I (and others?) go to this page: http://vicky1clicker1tr.wordpress.com/clicker-training-road-trip/ they are taken to the top of the page…therefore the oldest part of the page. How can I find a theme (or change my site) so they are taken to the most recent addition to this page? Can you give me some choices of themes, that will do this?
Thank you
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You have tried to post to a page. Please read about the differences between posts and pages:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/You cannot post to a page: each blog has only one dynamic place (page) for posting.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/To organize your posts use categories:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/Then you can set up a custom menu so your readers can navigate to all the posts in each category:
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I am unable to understand what you said. I think there must be a choice of ‘theme’ which will allow me to post a new post, (NOT A NEW PAGE) where people will be taken to my newest post, with an arrow at the bottom of the page, saying either ‘previous’ and ‘next’ so that they can choose.
I am planning a cycling trip, and want people to be able to follow along my journey.
Can someone here help me with that?
Thank you
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That is not your blog: that is a static Page.
Do not use Pages. Use Posts for your blog. They work exactly the way you want. Tess has given you the link that explains the difference.
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Ok. so you did not understand my shorthand way of expressing some crucial things you must understand. I will try to go slower.
Here is your link:
http://vicky1clicker1tr.wordpress.com/clicker-training-road-trip/
That is a page. Notice that it does not hav e a date of posting on it except for the dates you typed in yourself?Here is your home page, your one and only blogging page:
http://vicky1clicker1tr.wordpress.com/
Notice that beside each article you wrote that there is a date on the left side?
You have 3 posts:
I am
Test
Hello World.
That is your dynamic page: that is the only “page” you can post to. It is not a page you can make. Go to your dashboard an look at the list of pages you have written:
“clicker training” “untrainable” and “What is clicker”
Those are your pages.Pages hold static information. Things like “what is clicker training” that you want your readers to know about. Information that doesn’t change. Sort of like your blog is your living room and you have reference books for your guests to learn about your topic. You write a page and it stays there for any guest reader to look at for definitions, basic info, or things that don’t change very often.
Posts are the articles you write over time. Like a diary. Or a log of a trip. Or how you learned to click dogs. You write things each day in a diary. and there is a date for when your write it. Your thoughts may change in 3 months or a year, but your post is about your current information.
The magic of a blog, or digital media in general, is that you can organize your thoughts by topic: what they are about. For example you could have a topic or category called “clicker training roadtrip” or “clicker training basics” “clickers I recommend” and so on.
Once you organize your posts like that, giving each post a category (or put it into one of your topics), then you can move to the next step.
Make a menu so your readers who are interested in your trip can find all your posts about that trip. Or a menu item about clicker training basics. Or whatever topic you want to cover.
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Thank you for talking slower, and trying to make it clear. I have Aspergers, which means I interpret/understand things EXACTLY as people say them. And…of course words NEVER mean exactly what they say. So I will spend a few days trying to understand what you wrote, and possibly I will be able to. If not, I will be back. I have until July to work this out.
Thank you
vicky
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Don’t worry. That is why we volunteer: to answer questions.
Feel free to post here again. My advice is to look first about the differences between posts and pages. That is really important, and it often takes people a while to understand the concept.
If you need more information, then do not hesitate to ask.
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ProTIp: If you have Aspergers, you are more likely than most people to understand the support documents in the links that Tess has given you. I’ve found the best way is to open a new blog JUST for testing things, and work through them step by step whether or not I understand the steps, and then they become clear through the doing.
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