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  • February 8, 2016 at 5:46 am #84924
    John
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    Going around in circles here. We have a new website up and running and part of what we want to do is create regular blog posts. We have added a Blog menu option to the main navigation bar and which points to any posts that are categorized as Blog posts.

    However, the posts are displaying in full and we want to condense this to just the summaries for two reasons – firstly for space and aesthetics, but also for the ability to share the blog (facebook/twitter etc). The sharing buttons only appear if you have clicked into the blog post but not if you just click the blog menu option.

    i have made the necessary adjustments to the reading options however, as the blog menu button does not point to a page, we do not have the ability to select “blog” as the Posts Page in the reading settings. I suspect this is the issue.

    Is there anyway to force the blog roll to condense blog posts to summaries with the set up we currently have? The alternative, I figure, is that we have create a page called Blog which we then assign as the posts page. I’m not sure whether this would operate in the way we originally envisioned but is it the only way to achieve the summaries?

    our site http://www.5for5challenge.com/category/blog/ – any help/suggestion greatly appreciated!

    February 8, 2016 at 1:31 pm #84942
    Mahesh
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    Hi @John

    Thank you for using Catch Everest Pro.
    I am a bit confused on why you are using category blog for blog posts. You can create a page “Blog” then go to “Dashboard=> Settings=> Reading” and select “A static page” option then choose “Blog” from Posts page drop down.
    If you prefer to use archive as you’re using now, creating static blog page step can be skipped.
    Then go to “Dashboard=> Appearance=> Theme Options=> Layout Options” and select “Excerpt/Blog Display” in Content Layout. This will display summary for your blog.

    Let me know if this helped.

    Regards,
    Mahesh

    February 9, 2016 at 5:09 am #84992
    John
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    Thanks Mahesh – yes, that helps and works. I had thought that I had tried that, but clearly hadn’t! My concern was that it would interfere with the homepage but I guess the “static homepage” overrides this layout function.

    As for why we are using a category on the menu bar – simply because that was how we were told by a step-by-step guide we found on the web. Having never used wordpress before/set up a site, we have looked for advice on every step and this way was the explanation used.

    If I were to create a page called Blog how would I actualy post posts to it? I guess i would insert a widget?

    Is there a reason that suggests that it would be better to change to a Page rather than Category now (before too many blog posts go live) or does it not really matter either way?

    Thanks again,
    John

    February 9, 2016 at 3:07 pm #85020
    Mahesh
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    Hi jdg199,

    Checking your site, you have Blog item in the menu, and currently you are using Category blog for it. And all the posts of blog category will be listed here. This is okay. But what I recommend is create a blog page and select that blog page for displaying the posts. As you are already using a static page setting, this won’t be a problem I guess.
    All posts are blogs itself, so why it is necessary to put in all blog category? As for example of category, say you have a post related to Science, then you’ll post it in Science category. And another post say related to Environment which you’ll post to Environment category.
    This is where you want to use the blog page, to display all the blog posts regardless of the category. All the latest posts from all category or selected categories from Homepage/Frontpage Settings will displayed here. And if you want to list the posts from specific category then the category menu that you are now using comes in handy.

    Hope you understand. Let me know if any problems.

    Regards,
    Mahesh

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