Widgets in main nav menu
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Hi,
I’d like some of my widgets to form part of main nav menu but it only lets me add pages, posts and links… The widgets don’t come up
If I google it then people suggest creating a new page template but this doesn’t exist in my dashboard options?
Many thanks,The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello! Adding widgets to your menu is not possible here on WordPress.com. Creating new page templates is also only available through self hosted WordPress.org sites.
Can you tell me what you’re trying to add? Maybe there’s another way to do it!
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Should I be looking to move to wordpress.org? I’m worried I’ve done the wrong thing by paying for hosting on .com as I am not able to do what I want to do I don’t think and I can’t seem to add plugins or anything?
I am trying to add archive and recent blogs to the main menu but I don’t seem to be able to?
Thanks for your help
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I am trying to add archive and recent blogs to the main menu but I don’t seem to be able to?
This sounds like something you can definitely do here. Can you explain which posts you want to appear on each of those pages?
Our recent post pages show all of your recent posts, and users can scroll back as far as they want. Does that sound like what you want for the recent blogs page?
As for archives, we offer many different types of archives. You can link to Category archives, or yearly archives, even monthly archives. Can you tell me what type of archives you’re looking for?
If you let me know the rest of the functionality you’re looking for through plugins, I can help you find ways to do those things here on WordPress.com. If you’re still interested in moving to a self hosted site, here’s some info about what that means for you:
Let me know if you have any more questions!
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Hi,
You’re so helpful, thanks! I have the recent posts widget at the top of the page, but it’s limited to how many it shows, where’s the scrolling option for users? It also shows all posts, not just my blogs but that’s another problem I am trying to work out!I was looking for a tab in the nav that housed all blogs on it, not just top 5/10 – is that possible to do?
I have set up archives but in the widget section I can only see by month as an option, not category or anything…I was hoping to do it so that the archive housed a list of the blogs and their title, as users don’t know which month they were published, so if they click they can see them all there – I guess similar to the nav page I am trying to set up. I only have a small number of blogs as this is new, but when they rack up, I want users to be able to see all of them with their titles somewhere?
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I was looking for a tab in the nav that housed all blogs on it, not just top 5/10 – is that possible to do?
Yes! It sounds like you have some posts that are part of your blog, and other posts that are not part of your blog. Is this correct? Do all of your blog posts have a specific tag or category like “blog”?
Once you do, you can create a Category Page for that:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
I have set up archives but in the widget section I can only see by month as an option, not category or anything…I was hoping to do it so that the archive housed a list of the blogs and their title, as users don’t know which month they were published, so if they click they can see them all there – I guess similar to the nav page I am trying to set up.
It sounds like you want to use several Category Pages:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
Does this do what you want?
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Hi,
This is useful and nearly there, but can I only create a custom menu for blogs rather than have it in the main nav/menu along the top of the page. I feel like I need to add all of the blogs into a page, then add that page into the main menu/nav? Thank you again, your advice is so clear and spot on, I really appreciate it.regarding archive widget, I can still only see by month as an option?
Thanks again
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Ignore me, I’ve done it. This really rocks, exactly what I wanted to do, thank you so much! So any post I tick with that category will appear on this section and there’s no limit to numbers?
Archives still don’t give me an option to file in a different way with categories or month etc…
last thing, can I use categories to denote what appears on the Homepage as there are some posts I don’t want on there?
Thanks again… can you now find my forum plea for help getting social icons on my header as you are the most helpful person to respond so far. Thanks again! -
So any post I tick with that category will appear on this section and there’s no limit to numbers?
Yep! This is exactly right. :)
Archives still don’t give me an option to file in a different way with categories or month
This is true. We have various widgets you can add if you want users to have these options. The Archives widget shows months. And the Calendar widget will show a calendar style view of your posts. Then the Categories widget will show either a drop down or a list of your categories which will lead to the Category Pages.
can I use categories to denote what appears on the Homepage as there are some posts I don’t want on there?
Unfortunately no. I would suggest setting up a static page for your front page if you want to keep certain posts off the front.
can you now find my forum plea for help getting social icons on my header
Sure! I’ll go find it. :D
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Your responses are so clear and awesome and have worked, thank you so much! I have everything crossed you can find my other queries so you can help this blonde debutant out – follow button/comments on posts and social icons are the main ones.
Thanks again, please let this be a huge shout out to say you are the best forum reply/support person I’ve come across – if I can understand, then you’re doing well! -
I’m so happy I can help! Sorry for the delay. I was offline for a few days. Back now though! Let me know if you have more questions I can help with. :)
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No worries and thanks….final one is the follow button on my site as I can only have the email function and friends are not seeing it so I think a button would be better but that doesn’t exist I don’t think? Shame after each post there isn’t a function to follow blog?
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You could add the Subscription shortcode to the end of your posts if you like:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/
We try to make it as easy as possible for your readers to subscribe to your blog with or without a WordPress.com account. Anyone who is logged into a WordPress.com account will see this Follow button at the top of your site:
Anyone who is not logged into a WordPress.com account will see this at the bottom of their browser window when visiting your site:
https://cloudup.com/cVBiwM8eAnJ
As you’ve found we also have a couple of follow widgets:
1. The Follow Blog widget adds a box where viewers can subscribe to your site via email.
2. The Follow Button widget adds a button that WordPress.com users can click to follow your site.
The email options will not require your followers to create a WordPress.com account. However, they will need to confirm that their subscription by clicking a link in a confirmation email from WordPress.com.
I hope this clarifies your options. Let me know if you have questions!
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Really helpful thanks. I’ll try adding it to the end of each post, so that non wordpress.com people can easily find how to follow. Shame WordPress hasn’t made a button for non wordpress.com people as people are so lazy and hate forms, they like buttons!
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Well, if the reader doesn’t have a WordPress.com account, we don’t know anything about them, specifically, we don’t have an email address to send the posts to. So a button doesn’t quite work for these users.
But I hope that shortcode works for what you want. Let me know if I can help further!
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