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raincoaster on "I am confused about pages, posts,catagories, tags"

raincoaster — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:52:49 +0000

Make POSTS, not pages, and use appropriate categories so that when someone clicks on Recipe in your Categories widget or custom menu, they get just the recipes.

Re-read the link above about posts and pages.

christypetty on "I am confused about pages, posts,catagories, tags"

christypetty — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:24:38 +0000

I am really trying to have a webpage/with blog in it.
From my above list: should all of these be pages that I post to? Right now i have three pages, two are static; about and my front page- Recipe is a page, that I will post to regularly with picts and such, should it actually be a post? I am thinking I post in a post? IF I do that, can my Recipe Post have it's own tab in the menu? like a page.
But if I only post in on a post, what is the point of a page if it is not static?
Sorry for the dumbness

timethief on "I am confused about pages, posts,catagories, tags"

timethief — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:01:53 +0000

There is only ONE page in a blog that automatically updates with every post we publish and it’s the front page of the blog, unless we choose to change that. When we publish a post it will automatically appear in the Archives and also on the Category pages of the categories that we assigned to a post.

It's important to comprehend the differences between pages and posts.We cannot assign categories or tags to static pages. We can only assign them to posts. > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/12/better-blogging-at-wordpress-com-pages-and-posts/

Although we cannot post to more than one page we can create the appearance that we have done that by setting up a custom menu. That feature is available for some themes but not for all themes.

http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
custom menus > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/06/17/custom-menus-arrive-at-wordpress-com/

christypetty on "I am confused about pages, posts,catagories, tags"

christypetty — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:03:57 +0000

I know what I want but not how to get there.
I want a Front Page, with all other pages/posts info on it, some picts etc.
I want the Pages(I assume) to be in tabs across the top:
Recipe
Info/expert page
bloggy/community
hobby page
and...
Are all of the above static pages? With posts within?
And where do catagories come in?
IF they are pages with posts, how do I get the posts to go to the specific pages-- Just open the page and start typing?
IF that is so- Would I look at each individual page as a 'blog' in itself?
I think I need a picture of this... Thanks