I've noticed that my "categories" are only appearing underneath posts, does anyone know how I can add them permanently onto every page? So visitors (when I actually get some lol, just starting Day 2) can browse posts by category easily?
Thanks
Hi Dodge, You should be able to add categories to your sidebar (depending on which Theme you're using). Go into "Appearance"... "Widgets", and then drag and drop whatever widget you want (in this case "Categories") over into the Sidebar area on the right of the screen.
Alternatively, (and this is a bit more complex, but fun to play around with)... You can create a sort of drop-down top bar effect (so it looks more like a 'proper website' and not just a generic blog), simply by putting each post onto separate pages & subpages. In my opinion it can look more professional and (maybe) easier for readers to navigate.
HOWEVER, I suspect it may affect the way in which Google sees each post (because you wouldn't have every post going onto the same 'page', and therefore wouldn't get the linear effect of an ongoing chain of blog posts). I'm really not sure whether this would make a scrap of difference from an SEO point of view - probably not, as the important thing is to have fresh content going onto your site every day, and as I said, I tend to think it looks more 'professional' and 'authoritative' (depending on your subject manner).
It would probably mean that you can't schedule future posts in quite the same way as with a conventional blog, and it probably means straying away from Crashed's blueprint slightly.... BUT if you want to have a play, try this: (You can always backtrack later)...
(1) Go into your Wordpress dashboard and click "Pages"..."Add New"
(2) For the sake of this example, I'll call the new page "Ice Cream Sculptures"... Write a quick dummy article & save the page.
Depending on your theme, the title of your new page should show up in your top bar index thingy alongside "Blog"... "About"... etc.
(3) Now add another page, but this time we'll make it a subpage of "Ice Cream Sculptures". I'll call it: "Great Ice Cream Sculptors of the 18th Century"...
(4) Now before 'publishing' this page, look at the right hand side of your dashboard, and you'll see a section entitled "PAGE ATTRIBUTES". This is where we will make it into a subpage of the previous page.
Where it says "Parent... (no parent)", click there and select the PREVIOUS page we created ("Ice Cream Sculptures"), and 'save'/'publish'.
Now, when you look at your site, you will still see "Ice Cream Sculptures" as one of the options on the top bar. When you hover your cursor over it, it should open up a drop down list of whatever posts you have allocated to 'subpages' of that parent category. ("Great Sculptors of the 18th Century", and any other similar pages you might have created in the same way). You can rearrange the order of these drop-down sublists in the Page Attributes menu, and can even create sub-sublists, so it creates a sort of nested menu effect.
As I said, this might not tie in exactly with what Crashed has in mind, and I've no idea precisely what impact it might have on Google rankings etc, but since we're not primarily concerned with SEO, it seems sensible to me to try and make your site look the way you want it to.
Hope this makes sense...
