How Do I Post To Different Pages on WordPress?
I just got a wordpress blog and created four different pages for four different topics. Every-time I make a post it always appears on the front page of the blog. How do I get the posts to appear on the pages I want them to. (ex. posts about music I can post on the music page, TV posts I can specify to appear on the TV Page.) I am very new to this and am not good with coding or anything and I’m using the pre-made “Cutline” theme for my blog if that makes any difference. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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You have encountered one of the most perplexing problems for beginner WordPress bloggers – posts vs pages. It got me, too, when I first started because I had been building web pages and thought it was logical that a WordPress page was the same thing. It’s not.
By default, WordPress is a blog – a “web log”. You make entries into blog and they appear on the front page. Those entries are called posts.
Posts – Posts are assigned to categories. You can create new categories and group posts accordingly. Most recent posts appear 1st on the home page of your blog. But you can also click on the individual Category links in the sidebar to see all posts in a category.
Pages – Pages don’t have categories, but they can have hierarchy in that a new page can be made a child of a parent page. You can put pages in menus and the child pages will appear in sub-menus. Pages have been traditionally reserved for static credibility pages like Contact Us, About Us, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, etc. But you can also use pages to create a more HTML-like site. I do it all the time. Here’s a WordPress blog with only pages, no posts: http://ResistanceBandsReviews.net
WordPress Menus – In the new 3.x, WordPress introduced custom menus, one of the most exciting features to come out in a while. You can create custom menus in your sidebars, but if your theme supports it, you can also replace the top nav bar with your own custom menu and put anything you want into it like pages, posts, categories, links and manually entered URLs. It’s the BOMB! So if you want your WordPress site to be more page-like, you can stick categories into the menu.
There is also a plugin that I use a lot called List Category Posts. Here’s an article I wrote about it http://bestbloghost.net/how-to-display-posts-on-a-directory-like-page/ Look at the top menu on this page and click on the Blogging Articles menu item to see exactly what it does. That’s another option for grouping your entries. I just have it displaying the post name and the date in a particular category, but the plugin is highly configurable.