Missing Categories On Homepage

  • ftbjr

    (@ftbjr)


    15 years, 3 months ago

    I have been doing a lot of editing on my 150 Posts the past few days and about an hour ago I noticed that the listing of all my Posts (on my Homepage…www.anaturalway.org) in alphabetical order in the right column are missing!

    In their place is:
    Categories
    Uncategorized

    Meta
    Login
    Entries RSS
    Comments RSS
    Word Press.org

    These were not there before!!

    Any idea or suggestions on how to get those Posts back into the right column?

    Thank you.
    Fred

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    The twenty Ten theme doesn’t list all posts in the sidebar by default. Did you customise the theme at all?

    Thread Starter ftbjr

    (@ftbjr)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hi esmi…..I imported all of my Posts from my WordPress.com site, and I believe I saw them all come over. I have been working so much on the Posts the past few days, maybe I am mistaken. I have only been at the .org site for a number of days.

    I did not customize anything…..I am extremely PC illiterate

    I was reading how I can delete the Meta, Login, etc from the sidebar but is there a way to show all the Posts on the right sidebar?

    Thanks for your response.

    Fred

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    is there a way to show all the Posts on the right sidebar?

    Not without a plugin or some extra coding in the sidebar template. I’m not even sure that listing all posts in the sidebar is such a good idea. Imagine how it will look when you have 100 posts. Or 1,000 posts.

    Thread Starter ftbjr

    (@ftbjr)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    A follow-up………the 3 Posts I added since being at WP.org all came out as “Uncategorized”. And, ALL of my Posts are shown as being “Uncategorized”, which should not be the case because @ WP.com, they were ALL categorized. When I first saw that when I got here, I just thought was normal for this venue.

    I did find a way to put each of the existing Posts into a Category, but that takes time (150 of them suckers!)………but, I will do it, if that will enable me to list all the Posts on the Homepage sidebar.

    I’m done!! Sorry to be taking up so much of your time.

    Will be back……I need grub.

    Fred

    Thread Starter ftbjr

    (@ftbjr)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hey there……..no problem, and I appreciate your taking the time to look into it for me. I did have 147 Posts in the sidebar at the ‘old’ WP.com and it looked normal to me.

    Thanks again, and have a good evening.

    Fred

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Themes on wordpress.com are often significantly different from their wordpress.org equivalents. To display all of your posts in the sidebar, you could try adding <?php wp_get_archives( 'type=postbypost' ); ?> to the theme’s sidebar.php file. But be warned that your changes will be over-written the next time you upgrade WordPress or the theme. For this reason, it is recommended that you consider creating a child theme for your customisations.

    Thread Starter ftbjr

    (@ftbjr)

    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hi esmi, and thanks for taking the time to send me the follow-up suggestion.

    I decided to just stick with what I have. I made some adjustments to the sidebar with the Category wiget and it is fine now.

    I found out another way to get all 150 Posts listed in the sidebar is to make each one a separate Category….and this is evidently what I did, unknowingly, with WordPress.com.

    Thanks again
    Fred

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