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Thank you but my theme allows for post categories so it should be “working for my (your) site.” The question is how to set that up?
Under post you can “add new category” and you can assign a “parent” which I would assume can be my main blog page.
Each post can be assigned several categories and “parent” categories which I assume I could always make my main blog page.
It would seem to be a step by step process. What may be missing is creating an actual page for each category but I haven’t read anything about that.
From these indications this should be easy and have nothing directly to do with re-assigning urls for all pages which changes links and searches. You said it is “not a theme related issue” but also it “is not working for your site”. There must be just a simple missing step – or else there would be be “post categories” and “add new category” to select. Thank you.

[hhurst]

I changed the permalink settings back to “post name” so I have my page and post urls the way I had them before.
But now when I select a category, the page for that cateogry does not appear. It says “oopps that page can’t be found.”
There is nothing in the directions online about making categories that suggests I need to change all my urls – including for all pages – in order to have post cateories.

It looks like each cateogry needs a page – so the question is – how do I create a category that shows some selected posts? I have the posts in the categories and I have added the categories in the Posts/ categories.
I just need simple directions for setting up cateories of posts so they appear both on the main blog page and the cateogry page.

[hhurst]

I do not know what you mean – it is too technical.
I set up each page url and now they are different.
I don’t understand this.
I would like the urls to be what they were.

[hhurst]

Thank you.
But my page urls are not what I made them.
All of them are different now.
This can be a problem with searches.

[hhurst]

I changed the permanlink setting from “post name” to “day and name” and saved it but the blog page did not appear. So I changed it back.

[hhurst]

Settings=> Reading=> Front Page Displays:

Front page displays

Your latest posts

A static page (select below) THIS IS SELECTED

Front page: DISCOVER YOUR DREAMS

Posts page: THE DREAM BLOG

[hhurst]

I am concerned about the lost blog page.
I was trying to re-order my categories by deleting them and adding them again including the blog page category.
Now when I select the blog page I get error 404 page not found even though I’ve got posts categorized for the blog page.
I don’t see anything wrong when I “edit” the blog page.

I lost my blog page trying to fix it this question which wasn’t answered:
For some posts, I selected Blog for the “‘primary” category and also selected the new category.
But when I select the new category from the widget, I get this message “opps. that page cannot be found.” What do I need to do?
Thanks!

[hhurst]

I don’tknow what this means: rewrite .htaccess files.
When I go to Dashboard=> Settings=> Permalinks

I see nothing I can change.

[hhurst]

Mahesh,
You always can help me – this is a big problem.
I was trying to re-order my categories by deleting them and adding them again.
Now when I select the blog page I get error 404 page not found even though I’ve got posts categorized for the blog page.
I don’t see anything wrong when I “edit” the blog page.

Also – for other posts I selected Blog for the “‘primary” category and also selected the new category.
But when I select the new category from the widget, I get this message “opps. that page cannot be found.” What do I need to do?

Thanks!

[hhurst]

I see that the post is in both categories. However when I select the category in the widget for categories I get this message “opps. that page cannot be found.” What do I need to do? When i select a category in the widget does it go to a new page (other than the main blog page)? Do I need to create that page?

About changing the order of the categories in the widget – do you think deleting all the categories and then putting them back in the order I want might do that? You can move select and drag items in the widget admin area so it seems very odd you can’t change the order of categories without a plug in.

thanks!

[hhurst]

I put this into the place you said exactly as you wrote it but the dates are still there.
I took it out because I don’t leave code in that is not working.
Is there anything else to try? thanks

[hhurst]

Thanks. Update: I just now got to try this. I cut and paste exactly as you have if for the example of ommitting all dates and nothing changed.

[hhurst]

OK but I was trying to answer his questions for clarification

[hhurst]

I see. So there is nothing more interesting I can have by my name (as the author of the blog posts) other than that little figure of a person?
Which is so boring!

[hhurst]

Maybe it would help if you looked at any post on this site – you can see the gravitar pic does not show up at the top where my name is “Hollye”.

http://mydreamlife.me/dream-blog-2/

[hhurst]

In the admin board I see my gravitar at the top (right).
On blog posts I do not see the gravitar and I am the only blog author.
In my admin board I don’t see where to post email addresses for blog authors.
When I registered with Gravitar I made sure the email there is the same as the email address for the website but don’t know if there is a place on the site admin board to put in email addresses for blog authors.

[hhurst]

what so you mean by the “link in custom menu”?

Do you know why I can edit the permalink on all pages EXCEPT the home page?
I see online some people’s home pages have a / and then something to be more specific about their website.
For example that could be sweetsbysue.com/custom-cookies for the home page URL.

[hhurst]

thank you for responding.
I’m not understanding.
I will try to be more clear: I am in the admin. area editing.
Under the page title there is PERMALINK:
And there is an edit option.
This is true for every page except the home page.
I want to add something to the end of the permalink/url for the home page but I do not see an option for this page.
The page is mydreamlife.me
I wanted to add / and then some thing else.

[hhurst]

yeah! It worked!

thank you!

[hhurst]

By the way I was able to change the sub headline text color but the footer doesn’t seem to work yet.

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