REGULAR BLOG POSTS AND PAGES — I'M A NEWB, PLEASE HELP!
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Okay, so I already understand how pages work. But this is what I want to do. I noticed that the blog I posted under a chosen page doesn’t appear on my homepage, unless I put this as a static page. I want my homepage to also display all the essays I put under the pages I created. Of course it would appear based on the date you posted them, but I want them to also appear on the front page of my site, not only when you click the pages one by one.
Is that possible? I hope you get what I mean :(
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi @warriornicey,
I’m just trying to clarify what you would like to do – please let me know if I’ve gone sideways!
You have a blog post on your site (My Love for Writing) and you would like to have it shown on the front page along with all other posts you create?
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This is a one or the other situation. You can create a static front page, and then a separate page for all your published posts only if you wish to.
Options
(1) All posts on the front page which is also called the home page and is the URL of the site by default.(2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page. In that case you can create a Page for the Home page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page first, then create one for your Posts/Blog. Lastly, you designate a static front page.
Optional – Create a blog page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/#optional-create-a-blog-page
Note what follows.
Dynamic category pages will automatically display all published posts that you have assigned to that specific category.
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.
Organizing posts
Dynamic category pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/ created by the software when we assign categories to posts are also not the same as static pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we create.You can create a custom menu and include multiple dynamic category pages that automatically display the published posts assigned to the the specific categories in reverse chronological order.
Assign categories to posts.
Create a custom menu.
Add the dynamic category pages to into the custom menu.You begin by assigning categories https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ to your posts.
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 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 as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages 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 as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusPlease see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
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Hello @okanagancreativedesigns
Thank you for the response! This is what I was tryina say.
If you check my blog, you can see a few pages just right under my header (Insights, Personal How-to’s, About and Contact). I learned that when I post an essay in the Insights Page, you will only get to read that essay if you intentionally click on the Insight Page itself. The essay doesn’t appear on the homepage (the page that basically welcomes you when you visit the site).
I think of the homepage as “FB news feed” — it shows everything I posted regardless of what category or page it belong.
Is it not possible? :(
Thank you!N
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