Add ‘blog’ as menu item

  • Resolved jennigje

    (@jennigje)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    I am using wordpress for my website so the installation is in the root directory.

    I don’t like how I do not have a menu item for blog, I wish to create that and the see a page with perhaps the various categories I have etc and then below that the summary of the latest blog posts perhaps.

    how do I go about doing that? Do I create a folder called blog in my root folder and then copy all wordpress files to that folder as well? This is what I’d do if I only used wordpress for th blog section, but I am not sure if that is the right way to do it, considering I already have all wordpress files to operate the rest of the site.

    Can anyone help with that?

    Thanks

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  • Hi

    If your site is a blog site, the simplest thing would be to edit your theme’s header.php file and change the displayed name of the link from HOME to BLOG.

    Does that accomplish what you are after?

    Thread Starter jennigje

    (@jennigje)

    Hi,

    The issue is my site is not a blog site. I use wordpress to run my entire site. What I wish to achieve is to be able to have ‘blog’ as one of the top navigational menu items.

    What I am not sure about is if that means I have to install wordpress a 2nd time, but then in the folder called ‘blog’.

    Hi

    You don’t need to install WordPress a second time.

    1) At what URL is your blog page now?

    2) Do you have a static home page and a posts page set up in Admin / Settings / Reading? If not, see if doing it that way will resolve your problem. In other words, if you create a static page within WordPress (The pages option in admin nav) and call it Blog with a permalink of Blog, that page will have the URL /blog. If you make that page your posts page in Admin / Settings / Reading then your blog posts will display on that page at /blog.
    (If your blog posts are presently on your homepage, it means you have to assign a different page as your static home page)

    If these suggestions don’t resolve this for you, write back describing what is not yet working. There are other ways to accomplish what you are after, but the ways I’m describing are simpler to implement, so suggesting them first.

    Thread Starter jennigje

    (@jennigje)

    Hi,

    Thank you so much!! I am 70% of the way there now ??

    Perhaps you can also help with the last bit…

    On the blog page, I currently only have a long list of posts.

    how do I go about showing the categories? (Only on that page, not as a widget in the sidebar) I would like to be able to list the various categories I have at the top of the page (horizontal maybe)so people can select individual posts when they click on them.

    Hi

    What I’d suggest is using the sidebar but only have the list of categories display in the sidebar when the blog page is displaying.

    Would that work for you? (You could put it at the top of the contents area also). It only requires a few lines of code to add either way.

    It appears that overnight WP changed the way my replies are displayed to me and I no longer seem to be able to know when someone has responded to something I wrote. If you reply you should probably send it to me by email, using the email address on my website – see my profile. If you include the URL to your site, that will help.

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