Where did my post go? McKinley Theme
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Hi,
I’m going to claim the title of complete newbie here and apologise upfront for what may be a pretty dim question.However, that being said, I need help with locating the posts in my blog – I have set up several pages no worries, but I ran a test post for the first time and can’t see it under any of my pages – where did it (and presumable every future post) go? Help?
Thank you!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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A follow up question to this, i think, is going to be – how do I get my posts to go to a particular page/place of my choosing?
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Hi. Is your test post “published”? If it is still a draft post, it won’t be visible on your live site.
More about post visibility: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/
To have your posts display on a specific page, go to the Settings>Reading page on your dashboard. At the top of the Reading page there is an option to select the page to display your posts. Details: http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
Does this help?
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I need help with locating the posts in my blog –
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts
If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needs be.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash(If you are referring to a Page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)
If you cannot find the post/page in revisions or in Trash then it’s gone and cannot be recovered.
I recommend:
Always create your posts on the dashboard of your own blog at
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add NewAlways allow pages to fully load before clicking any other links.
Never leave a post open for content creation or editing and walk away from it. Save it and log out of WordPress.com properly.
Always use an offline blog editor so you have backups on your own computer http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/
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how do I get my posts to go to a particular page/place of my choosing?
Pages and posts http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ are not the same. Static Pages and dynamic category pages are not the same either but please read on.
Please understand
(1) there is only one page we can post to in any blog and
(2) the static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we create do not automatically update.Only the dynamic pages like Categories, Tags and Archives created by the software when we publish a post we that we have assigned Categories and Tags to will update automatically update with new posts.
By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ 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 Post (not pages) by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories pages into the custom menu.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusRead this carefully http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well.
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Thanks annkiefert – that was just what I needed (my post was indeed published but I didn’t have a page selected for it to go to) – yay! Thank you :)
And thank you timethief – lots of useful information I will be needed shortly I think!
Thanks for the prompt help everyone :)
Mel x
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