Help! What is a tag? Also a few more questions
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Ok i am pretty new to blogging.
Worpress.com is the first blog i have had and it is great if you want, you can see my fish blog at passionate4pikes.wordpress.com
I have a really simple question that i cant seem to find an answer for: what is a tag?
Also, can i make a category my home page? for example, i have a category named “Fish articles” can i make The most recent posts in THIS category the homepage?
Also i want a “species profile” category that is in alphabeticall order sort of like a list of names and each one opens into a link.
Like thisAcara
Orange chromide
Oscar
Pike cichlid
Peacock bass
Zebra plecoAnd each one directs you into the profile.
Does any of it make sense?
Before i make you anymore confused then you are i think i will stop.
Thanks in advance.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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“what is a tag?”
http://support.wordpress.com/posts/post-tags/
Tags will be used in the global tag system:
http://support.wordpress.com/global-tags/
Categories VS Tags: http://support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/“Also, can i make a category my home page?”
No you can make your homepage a static page if you like, but not a page which is showing all the posts from one category:
http://support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/“Also i want a “species profile” category that is in alphabeticall order sort of like a list of names and each one opens into a link.”
Hm. Why don’t you make one page with links to all of the species profiles? So you make a page called “Species” then when people click it they see a list with all of the species, when they click on a species name they’ll be redirected to the profile page of that species.We do not want all of those species profile page to appear on your front page so you’ll need to hide them, this can be done by making another page its parent:
http://support.wordpress.com/pages/hide-pages/
How can a page have a parent page? http://support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/ -
Thanks!!! i will have to check the links out.
I have a few more stupid questions for you guys, How do you get an avatar?
Also i cant get the summaries to work, i put the exerpts in and under My dashboard, Writing, i chose the option to only show summaries, its not working.
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@passionate4pikes
Lora, wrote:but not a page which is showing all the posts from one category:
Incorrect you could set up a static home page to show all posts from a certain category But you’ll need to manually add the content their is No way around the Manual process.
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I have a few more stupid questions for you guys, How do you get an avatar?
To change your avatar the easiest way is to point your browser at http://gravatar.com
Also i cant get the summaries to work, i put the exerpts in and under My dashboard, Writing, i chose the option to only show summaries, its not working.
Thanks again guys!!!Have you read this ? Splitting Content
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I have a few more stupid questions for you guys, How do you get an avatar?
Also i cant get the summaries to work, i put the exerpts in and under My dashboard, Writing, i chose the option to only show summaries, its not working.That option is for feeds only, try using a more tag to show only a small piece of your article on your post page:
http://support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/– Lora
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@passionate4pikes: As for the Excerpts, they only work in a few themes; the one you’ve chosen is not one of them.
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