Wishing to have a table of contents for my posts
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Dear WordPress.com public forum, I am not that tech savy, but have a decent understanding of some of wordpress’s ways or working…
I have hit a roadblock and hopefully I can get some help. I’m wishing to list all posts in a category as a table of contents in the primary sidebar. there are widgets for most recent posts, most popular posts however this is pretty useless to me. If someone comes to the blog because they wish to see posts about certain topics within a category, there is no simple way for them to find the posts or to see what content the site has….It doesn’t look like I can use any of the wordpress themes i own (my main site is a wordpress built website.)
Do I have to move out of wordpress.com? Or do you have other solutions? thanks for any response you may give me.
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If someone comes to the blog because they wish to see posts about certain topics within a category, there is no simple way for them to find the posts or to see what content the site has.
You can assign categories to posts, create a custom menu and include links to dynamic category pages in it.
This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.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.
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/
Note your detailed theme description page at https://wordpress.com/themes/twentyfourteen/ with set-up instructions and the live demo site at https://twentyfourteendemo.wordpress.com/ too, please.
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You can create a Page https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/ and use the Archives shortcode on it https://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/, like I did here https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/sitemap/
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Yikes! I provided the wrong link for creating a Page above. This is the right one https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
If you assign tags or categories to your posts, then you can create a Page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and use you the display posts shortcode to display up to 100 posts on it. https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/
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See also Create a Site Index http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#create-a-site-index
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A blog is, essentially, a reverse chronological publishing tool. There are ways to use a blog to post long-form pieces in chapters and create a book-like structure.
Write a Book https://en.support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/
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