timethief thank you very much for your tips. However I still have a question on this topic. Is it possible to set an "Archive category" page as the front page? It seems to me that at WordPress.com we just have 2 options for the front page: 1) the automatic all-post-in-the-blog page; 2) a static-page.

I would appreciate a feature like setting a category name as "Homepage" and make just the posts published under this category to appear when you arrive to antoniocarrilho.wordpress.com, which is a Blog I mantain for a friend. Is there anyway to make this?

Notice that this blog I'm talking about is from a professional musician. The information about concerts and shows is quite random and unorganized and so the front page may become a little bit silly with posts of videos, announcements, reminders, etc... I would appreciate to have some domain on the posts appearing in the front page. This would be simply fixed by assining a category to those posts and calling that category to show up exclusively on the front-page. Is this feasible?

Thanks a lot!

You do not have any category pages in your cusom menu. You have Pages that will not automatically update with new content when you publish. Please read this http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and understand those static pages will never update with posts because they are not dynamic Categories pages.

You need to delete the Pages, create Categories for those labels on them (Artwork, How I Draw), and assign the Categories to your posts.

There is only one page that we can post to in any blog and we cannot prevent any posts we publish from appearing on that one page. By default it's the front page of the blog that all posts appear on. We organize posts by assigning Categories to them and when we publish the software automatically displays the posts on dynamic Categories pages. We crate a custom menu and add the Categories pages to it as menu items.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menu

Here’s a link to a custom menu walk-through > 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/

I am regularly tweeting and doing Facebook post about the products I represent. Looking to move to the next level and write full posts about them. For instance 1 product is 3-Form. If you click on the 3-Form page, I would like you to see relevant information, such as what it is made of, the fact it is made in the usa, technical support phone number etc. And then below or to the side of that be able to see blog posts I have done about their products, reviews, etc. So if I do a post and categorize the post as 3-Form it will show up on that page for my users to see as well as in the dated archives.

Make sense?

Aside from a blog being accepted into WordAds, no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work or products created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed on free hosted wordpress.com blogs. E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.com.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

I am a distributor of many brands and would like to create a page for each brand I sell that has basic information for that product. Additionally I would like to use post categories with the brand name and have a feed of all posts in that category show up in the page.

Is this possible?

Also, is their a way to add widgets to the content section on a particular page vs. a sidebar?

You can do the page/gallery/index thing if you do it manually, changing image size and links by hand.

I've been having a search around and it doesn't look possible. I was going to create a page that had a gallery of images and each image linked to a certain post. But it doesn't look like you can insert a gallery where the images link to posts. They have to link to the image/attachment page.

Just wanted to check here though, if anyone's got any ideas. Thanks!

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/

As per this guide...

http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

I've been trying to add a custom menu - when I add a page it works fine but as per the guide I am trying to add a custom link to take visitors to an outside page as well as a category page and neither is showing up on my new menu on the home page?

Any ideas?

Thanks x

• Why repost an old post? If you've got something important to add, better publish a new post with the new stuff and link to the older post. If you just want to draw attention to an older post, you can link to it in your sidebar.

• "Search engines don't like it" only if you do it systematically. See here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/on-the-duplicate-content-myth/

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