Should I Be Using Custom Menus?
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I understand the difference between a “post” and a “page” and what “static” means, what categories do, and understand custom menus, at least enough to be able to create them on a test blog. I’ll make mistakes, but… I think I understand this.
Where I need help:
I have about 600 posts from another blog place, which I closed. I find that I refer to those old blog posts semi-often, and when I do I copy and paste them in my blog here, all as children to a parent drop-down page in my menu bar. I link to that old “post” in the new one, and… it works. Here is an example.
But… my blog here is young, with less than 40 posts. As my blog grows, will my method get too unwieldy? I realize I would need to change the side widget I use to also show those old posts since it will get too long, but… are there other reasons I should change this?
If I should, I’d rather do it while it is still manageable.
I realize that it isn’t a “right” or “wrong” way but an opinion for a best way. I don’t have the experience here that other bloggers do and so I welcome your opinion and advice.
Thank you!
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Yes, too unwieldy: too many items in a dropdown aren’t user-friendly, in my opinion, plus if you continue like that the dropdown will soon become longer than the screen height, so the lower items will be impossible to access. Suggestion: remove the dropdown and add links to those posts in the content of the “Yesterday Once More” page.
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Thank you, justpi!
Should I continue to add those “old” posts as pages, or should I add them as posts, and convert the others from pages to posts?
And if I do convert those that are already there as pages, are they considered “new” and so emailed, RSS feed, etc?
Again, thank you.
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That’s up to you: pages, if you don’t want them on your main posts page; posts, if you want email, RSS feed, etc.
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