Strugglging with permalinks
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Hello,
So I’m trying to get my head around putting ‘posts’ in the appropriate ‘pages’.
On my blog (www.mariajoseponte.com) I’ve set up one section for ‘recipes’ and one for ‘blog’. I’ve made both into ‘categories’.
When I make a new post, I’m selecting the appropriate category checkbox for recipe, but the page is appearing in my blog.
I’d love the url to be – homepage.com/recipe/recipe-one
Instead I get a date in the permalink which I can’t seem to edit. What am I missing to get my posts in the corresponding section of the site?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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What’s critical when creating a custom menu is understanding how blogs are designed and being clear on the differences between pages and posts. A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or Tags pages and/or Custom Links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide.
Pages are static and are for content that rarely changes. They sit outside of the blog structure and you cannot post to multiple pages in any blog. There is only one main page for posts in a blog and all posts will display on the main blog page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/The front page of the blog by default will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts.
If you choose a static front page then you have to create two pages as I said above. After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page. We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the categories pages that are automatically generated by the software and cannot be edited into the custom menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menu
Creating Sub-Menus > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-of-menu-items-and-creating-sub-menusHere’s a link to a custom menu walkthrough > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/
There are many common errors, misunderstanding and misconceptions when creating custom menus and you can read about them here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/
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The short form: Permalinks can’t be edited here. Eventually I think WP.com will have that permalink structure, but right now they don’t.
Just continue to make posts rather than pages and categorize things properly and the blog will turn out the way you want.
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