Blogs not showing up!
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my blog – http://www.thepapertrailmusic.wordpress.com
so basically I post a blog and want it to go to the THOUGHTS page, it’s set as the defauly post location in the Reading menu, everything should be ok but it just doesn’t post to that section of the website. HELP!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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There is no WWW in any wordpress.com URL. The correct URL is https://thepapertrailmusic.wordpress.com/ and this is the link to the Thoughts page https://thepapertrailmusic.wordpress.com/thoughts/
All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/
Posts and Pages are very different. Also dynamic category pages created by the software when we assign categories to posts are also not the same as static pages we create.
You begin by assigning categories to your posts.
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/
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this is incredibly complicated and hard to follow. sorry about the www in front.
but basically, I have everything setup as far as I can tell correctly but the blog posts still do not show to the page I have set them to show on.
my site has a page called ‘Thoughts’ and that is set to be the landing spot for posts but they are not showing there
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You created a static page called thoughts that will never sutumatically up date with posts tagged with that category.
You need to delete it and replace it with a dynamic category page.
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Editing typos: sutumatically was meant to be automatically
You created a static page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ called Thoughts that will never automatically up date with posts tagged with that category.
You need to delete it and replace it with a dynamic category page https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/ that will automatically update when you publish posts you have assigned the Thoughts category to.
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ok I see, but now I have a page that shows up called ‘BLOG POSTS’ now and it says UNUSED next to it
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I’m multitasking from my business and it is busy today so what I will do is type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Also subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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ok thank you! I’m sorry, I just don’t know much about this sort of stuff and I’ve gotten this far but I’m just running into these issues now
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Hi thepapertrailmusic,
I read through this thread but I just want to double check what you would like to do. It sounds like you want to display your posts on a page called ‘Thoughts’. Is that right?
Let me know and we’ll go from there.
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@gemmacevans – yes! I think I have a bandaid on the solution now, but I only accidentally stumbled into it when I deleted the page I had previously made. When I did that, I realized I had retitled the ‘blog’ page that is set as a default page. But still, I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why when I had it set to post to that page why it wouldn’t happen. With the way I previously had it, the ‘Thoughts’ section had a much more aesthetically pleasing URL slug.
sorry if this is nonsense, I am new to WP!
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Hi,
It’s not nonsense at all :)
I can see you’ve set up a category page, you can add as many of those as you like to your menu:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/view-all/
If you need a hand with anything else, just let me know and I can point you in the right direction.
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