Adding posts to different pages
When I started drafting my web site I quickly noticed that I can't place all my posts on a single page, because I have four quite distinctive categories I'm writing about. The niche is the same, of course, but viewed from different aspects and I wanted my audience to have an easy way of filtering my posts. I did a search for a solution to this problem here at WA and since I didn't find a concrete answer, here's one...
First of all, WordPress does not support this feature OOB, so I needed to find a plugin that will do the job. The one I've found that did the trick is Posts in Page and it's really simple to use. For all features of the plugin, check out its support page. For quick setup, here's what I did:
- Install plugin via dashboard.
- Create one category for each page that will display different posts.
- Make sure your posts are in correct categories.
- Make sure that the template of each page you wish to change is NOT "Blog Template (Post Page)". This name probably depends on a theme you chose.
- Add the following line to each page where you wish to insert posts:
[ic_add_posts category='ENTER CATEGORY SLUG']
And that's it.
Quick reminder that slug is URL friendly version of your category name.
What this plugin does behind the scenes is injecting a specific number of posts from a specified category to the page. That gives you a possibility to have some static text on your page where you could for example describe the category and then have the list of posts from that category below it.
I'm not sure how this affects SEO and rankings, so I would appreciate your comments on that.
Anyway, I hope this helps someone.
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Thank you for this post Oliver! Exactly what I was looking for. All the best to you in your travels.
Can you please describe this line by an example names for category URL or post so will be more understandable specially to me
[ic_add_posts category='ENTER CATEGORY SLUG']
Thanks for the link. However, when I download the plug-in and extract the files, they still don't show up under "plug-ins" in the WordPress dashboard. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I'm not familiar with that plugin.
Another way to get posts to specific pages, without a plugin, is to create a category menu label for each category. Then as you create blog posts, you would assign them to the category as per the menu label, and all of the posts can then be added as blogroll under its related menu label.
Here's training: Creating A Category Page ~Jude
Oh my gosh thanks so much for this information I've been trying all day to figure out how to get posts to specific pages!
Hey OliverK,
I was thrashing around with this a few weeks ago and ended up deleting my pages and creating categories in the menu which appear along the top of my front page, just as the pages had, and then saving posts on different themes to those categories.
What it means, though, is that I don't have static text on a given 'Page' (in my case, 'Goats' or 'Chickens', and other homesteading related topics), just a series of articles within a blog roll under that category. Which do you think is better? The way I did it, or your method, with the nifty plugin?
I went for categories because everything I'd read said I couldn't post posts to a page and, like you, I need to group my posts under headings. Hence my deleting the pages and replacing them with categories.
Hmm... Look forward to hearing what you think.
Hi Zaragozana,
I'm new to SEO, so I cannot tell you which approach is better Google-wise. My personal preference is to have some kind of introduction about a specific category at the top of the page, but if category name is pretty much self-explanatory then there is no real need for it.
One more thing that I get with this plugin is the ability to easily set and change some things about how posts are displayed with parameters, which can be handy.
Hello. I think that you can have a statictext above the category page but it depends on your chosen theme. Some support it and some don't.
You define the static in a description field of the category.
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Thank you. This was very helpful