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raincoaster on "Housekeeping advice please"

raincoaster — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:03:54 +0000

The best way is also the easiest: just write them up as regular blog posts and use the right category, like "recipes". Then use a Custom Menu to link to them. They'll appear on the main blog post, but they'll also be under that tab.

jfchiro on "Housekeeping advice please"

jfchiro — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:46:17 +0000

I started my blog a few moths ago and really enjoy it but have a few housekeeping issues that I would like to clear up to allow me to enjoy blogging more. I have a basic set-up but am having trouble figuring out how to add a separate section for daily life, travel pics, food pics, and recipes. I have read a lot on the forum but am still having trouble. I think if I can get these these straightened up...my blog would be easier to follow and not too drawn out. What would these items be best set up as...widgets, categories, sub categories(of we're in Scotland), or somewhere all together? And how to get there without messing it all up? Any other comments would be appreciated as well. thank you.

followmyfilm on "My Lovely Use of Pages!"

followmyfilm — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:46:39 +0000

My blog showcases my independent filmmaking thoughts and work.

I currently am making 1 film per week for 7 consecutive weeks, so to showcase the project I used a Pages approach along with Menu > Submenus.

It's working beautifully and is very nice and tidy :) Thank you WP.com!!!!

Christopher

timethief on "Newly created MENUS not showing up on blog??"

timethief — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:09:36 +0000

Just in case you have not followed all the steps correctly to set up a custom menu here's the link > How to create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

timethief on "Newly created MENUS not showing up on blog??"

timethief — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:08:27 +0000

Not to worry. Troubleshooting – My menu isn’t appearing
Go to the custom menu page in the dashboard Apearance > Menus and in the “theme location” module at upper left select your custom menu from the pulldown and then click “save”.

theirishbard on "Newly created MENUS not showing up on blog??"

theirishbard — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:51:00 +0000

I have tried to create a menu on my page, which is supported by my theme, and I can't find it anywhere on my page! I have two pages, one about Rants and one about Dreams, that I was trying to expand using menus. 'Another Psychotic Dream' and 'Random Rants' are supposed to be page names and the menu header should be simply 'Dreams' and 'Rants' but no matter what I do, I can't get it to show up like that. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thank You!

thesacredpath on "Viewing complete posts for category in on one page"

thesacredpath — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:09:44 +0000

It is unlikely staff would make a change to the theme, because if they accommodate your request, they would make a bunch of other people using 2010 that like the excerpt mad. They've done similar things in the past and the forums filled with angry bloggers with pitchforks and torches.

If you followed the link in note 3 on that post I referenced, there is a way to get full posts on the archives and categories pages as explained in http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/the-excerpt-function/ .

It means an extra step or two each time you create a post, but it is a work-around.

panaghiotisadam on "Viewing complete posts for category in on one page"

panaghiotisadam — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:07:51 +0000

Yes there is a way: read the post thesacredpath linked to.

msulauren on "Viewing complete posts for category in on one page"

msulauren — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:42:56 +0000

Thanks for the link. UGH! I would really prefer not to switch themes (this is an issue across multiple blogs, that are all formatted the same).

Is there any way to override the restriction in the twenty ten theme or request a change to the theme? Seems an arbitrary difference across themes...

thesacredpath on "Viewing complete posts for category in on one page"

thesacredpath — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:22:42 +0000

Basically whatever theme you are using, you are going to have to switch to a different one that shows the full posts.

thesacredpath on "Viewing complete posts for category in on one page"

thesacredpath — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:21:53 +0000

Whether category, tag and archive post pages show just the title of the post, an excerpt, or the full post is theme specific. Each individual theme designer makes that decision.

See this post for more information and what is show in each theme.

http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/full-posts-in-archive-pages/

msulauren on "Viewing complete posts for category in on one page"

msulauren — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:06:44 +0000

My blog has to be set to private... is there additional clarification that I could provide that you need?

airodyssey on "Viewing complete posts for category in on one page"

airodyssey — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:42:21 +0000

Hi. In order to give you accurate advice, please provide the URL of your blog, starting with http://

msulauren on "Viewing complete posts for category in on one page"

msulauren — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:05:30 +0000

I am using categories to organize my posts. When I click my category link, I am taken to a page that lists excerpts from all the posts for that category. I want to change this list so I can see the complete post content (all text and photos) for the posts in a given category. The goal is to be able to easily scroll through the entire content for all of the posts in one category. If it's relevant, I'm using the twenty ten theme.

Does anyone know how to do this?

timethief on "Organizing Categories"

timethief — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:43:31 +0000

You're welcome and happy blogging. :)

ninjahippos on "Organizing Categories"

ninjahippos — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:38:30 +0000

Thanks so much! I'm going to use the number thing on my blog now.
~Alisha

timethief on "Organizing Categories"

timethief — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:34:21 +0000

For categories the options are:
alphabetical sort (default);
numerical sort;
hierarchical sort.

iamjeighcee on "Organizing Categories"

iamjeighcee — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:06:26 +0000

well, I just wanted to know if you can arrange your categories in the category widget a certain way without having to put numbers in front of them...

timethief on "Organizing Categories"

timethief — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:04:41 +0000

Specifically, what did you have in mind?

You can develop a hierarchical structure if you wish by creating sub-categories.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/

iamjeighcee on "Organizing Categories"

iamjeighcee — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:08:55 +0000

thank you for answering this.

So you can sort them either alphabetically or you can assign numbers to them. But is there any other way?

arifsali on "Organizing Categories"

arifsali — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:22:19 +0000

Use
1. Spotlights
2. Notights

Adding numbers would sort the category as per your choice.

ninjahippos on "Organizing Categories"

ninjahippos — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:14:12 +0000

Hey. For my category widget, I don't want it to be in alphabetical order. How do I sort it so that it shows "Spotlights, Notlights, and Other"?
Thanks,
~Alisha

smilinglight on "A Mixed Bag - A bit of everything under the sun"

smilinglight — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:24:48 +0000

Thank you sarahbaram :)

threestoriestenpoems on "A Mixed Bag - A bit of everything under the sun"

threestoriestenpoems — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:20:25 +0000

I took a visit to your blog, I love the name! Good luck!

smilinglight on "A Mixed Bag - A bit of everything under the sun"

smilinglight — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:45:16 +0000

Visit my blog for posts on a wide variety of topics like money, organizing, study tips, printables etc..

http://amixedbag.wordpress.com

removeya on "Need a non-hacky creative solution re: Posts and Pages"

removeya — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:16:15 +0000

^^ fine

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/296035?replies=1#post-1158687

removeya on "Need a non-hacky creative solution re: Posts and Pages"

removeya — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:06:59 +0000

Hey, our blog is not hosted here, but it's a WordPress blog with a modified Kubrick template.

We'd like to start doing some e-commerce on our blog at goodrecordsnyc.com -- here's the interesting problem:

We can't post individual items for for sale as individual posts will swamp the main page's editorial content. We have hundreds of items for sale and it would be a mess. That we could tag them all as "Wall" category items would make organizing things for sale pretty easy. But we're pretty attached to the idea of one item - one post.

So the logical thing to do would be to make one page for each item for sale. The drawback there is that you can't associate categories with pages -- and we'd like one landing URL for the stream of individual pages.

Ideally, one could make a post to a tagged category and not have it appear on the main blog itself. Take a look and let me know if there is an easy, non-hackish solution.

sambauers on "Need a non-hacky creative solution re: Posts and Pages"

sambauers — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:06:59 +0000

You did not specify a blog address or reason for posting when you created this topic.

This support forum is for WordPress.com hosted blogs only. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog you need to seek help at the WordPress.org forums, not here.

If you don't understand the difference, you may find this information helpful.

panaghiotisadam on "Organizing your pages."

panaghiotisadam — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:23:44 +0000

Please paste the exact URL of your blog when asking questions here, or link your nickname to your blog (as explained in the Sticky 8 Things to Know Before Posting). We usually need that to give a relevant answer.

As you've found out, the pages widget will give you a list of all your pages, so there's no point in adding it more than once. Its title should refer to all the pages, what you're thinking of as "topics" should be actual (parent) pages, and what what you're thinking of as pages should be child pages.

Once you set things this way, you'll probably have to write links to the proper child pages in each parent page.

If you don't like the parent-child solution, you must remove the pages widget and add a text widget instead, in which you'll add links to your pages, with your "topics" as headings. You'll need coding for unordered lists - see here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/codes-useful-for-text-widgets/

msladyloyalty on "Organizing your pages."

msladyloyalty — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:41:10 +0000

I am going to try and communicate this as best as possible. I want to organize my pages by topics. (Bios, Helpful Hints, etc) BUT when I go to add a new page it just goes under Bios. When I add the 'Pages' widget again it just adds another pages of bios like I have listed already. Is there a way I can seperate which pages go where? If so, how? I would like to make it to wear I can have helpful hints and have maybe 5 other pages under it. Like this:

_Biographies_
Aniká
Dexxler
Invidia
Kayto
Machettie
The RL Player

_Helpful Hints_
Alt Management
Northrend Daily Routine
Leveling Professions

thank you!

Invidia