Hey y'all
Welcome to another WordPress Wednesday
My name is Kori Ashton
and yes
I'm giving it up.
I might happen to be
a Seattle Seahawks fan.
Alright? Football season is just in gear
and I'm pretty excited about it, but that's
not why you're here.
You are here to learn about
how to add posts into a page.
So we actually had the question
presented to us off of this
YouTube channel, and that's how
you can get some of your
questions answered as well.
If you'd like to leave them in the comment
box below, or tweet them to us
@WebTegrity
We'll try to make a YouTube video
to help you walk through your needs
inside of WordPress.
So, we're going to get right into it
with how to put posts inside of a page.
You have two different ways
that I'll show you if you're not
an in-depth nerd-coder, and you
you want to do it kind of the simple route.
So, what I have is just a test site here
that I'm playing around with.
You've got your home - blog and sample page
What you can do is go in and create an actual page.
Just create a page and name it "Blog"
So you're just going to title it here - Blog.
You're not going to put anything inside of it
and you're just going to click "publish" or if
you've already had a page here you'll click update.
okay?
Once that's in place - you'll go to settings
and go to reading.
And this is where you'll assign your post page
Now inside of this dropdown you should have
a page called "Blog."
Once you've assigned this and you can do the
settings here to how many show on this page.
Do you want it to be the full text
or just a summary of the blog with
maybe the "read more" option.
And of course you don't want this checked
if you're on a live site.
But I'm on a staging environment so I have that box checked.
So click save changes.
Then going back to the front side of my website
If I click refresh and go ahead and click
our Blog page that we have added
to our menu here.
Now whenever we go to that page
we should have a full listing of all of our
blog articles that we've put in our website.
So that's one way you can do it.
The question from our viewer also asked
how we would put a categories listing in the right sidebar.
So this is dependent upon your theme.
If your theme author has allowed you to have a
right or a left sidebar in your blog area, hopefully
you've got a widget box that you can access.
So that's what we're going to go to next.
You'll go to Appearance and
go to widgets
This is my one sidebar inside of this theme
that I'm using.
You can grab your categories area here
Drag and drop it in whatever order you'd
like it to appear in that sidebar.
Let' say "Choose a Topic."
And you can make some of the changes here
if you'd like. Click Save
And now on the right side underneath
the search bar - Now I should have our
"Choose a Topic" and these would be
our blog categories.
If there are categories that do not have any
posts in them. They will
dynamically NOT appear here.
If you'd like to make your own custom
navigation over here of those categories,
you can do that as well.
You would go into menus area now
and create a custom menu.
You would just click "Add New Menu" and
you can call it "categories."
And click "Create Menu."
Then you'll go here to the left side
and you see Pages, Custom Links, Categories
and there might be others
here dependent upon your theme
but what you're looking for is "Categories."
You can click "View All" - see all of them
and add all of them if you'd like.
Add to Menu
And then of course you can drag and drop
these in whatever order you'd like them
to be in.
And you would click "Save Menu."
Now that you have those there
you can go back to your widgets area
and instead of adding this categories option...
We'll delete that for now.
We're just going to add a custom menu.
Drop it in there.
And we'll still say - "Choose a Topic."
And you can select which menu.
We're going to go in and get our
"Categories"
and "Save."
And then coming over here on the right side
I'll click refresh.
We should have "Media" at the top
So now we have a custom menu
sitting here that will link to all
of the articles in each topic.
Pretty Simple, right?
You're theme by default should have
those type of capabilities.
Let's say though that you have a page
that already exists, that maybe you wanted
to write a little bit about all of these
certain categories of posts.
You'd like to put the posts
inside of a page.
You can do that as well.
That is going to require either
a little bit of nerd code -
if you know how to make a custom
page template.
Or - if you don't want to get nerdy
you can go in and use a plugin.
So - let's go show you which
plugin I'd suggest you use
if you wanted to do something like this.
You'll go to "Add New" for plugins
And you're going to search
just what you think it would be
Posts in Page
And there's this one here.
It's 30,000 active installs
as of - where are we now
we're in October of 2015.
It was updated quite a while back.
So I want you to always look
for those that have been updated
most recently.
And of course you can click on
"more details" and get an idea
of what it might look like inside
of your website.
This one requires that you just copy
a little bit of shortcode.
You would copy and paste this into
the page, and then it would (CLAP)
dynamically call all of your posts
to appear in that area. Okay?
So, this one's pretty cool.
You can just kinda click through these
different plugins here and see
which ones you might be more interested in.
Again, just clicking the "more details" and
viewing them. I've not used any of these
because typically we code from scratch,
and we're able to kind nerd-code these things
in there, but if you're not a
really involved nerd-coder
and you're rather just do it the
simple way, which is a plugin
you can lean on one of these to
accomplish that for you.
Alright -
I hope that helps you.
Have fun putting posts
inside of your WordPress pages
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Bye, Y'all