Create a post to act like a page(?)

  • First, apologies for the terrible topic title – I can’t think of a more descriptive one! Regardless, here’s my issue:

    I currently have a Page on my site that is a translation of a Post. I created the Page so that I could link to it from the Post, have a static place for it, but also so that it does not show up on the main page (in the feed).

    I’m now modifying my theme and am taking advantage of my currently existing Pages to create links to them on my sidebar (they are different sections of the site). However, I still have this Page and I am trying to find a way to make it a Post but to ensure it doesn’t appear in the feed.

    I thought setting the Post to ‘Private’ would solve it, but it needs to be visible to all those who click on the ‘translate’ link.

    Anybody who understands what I’m saying have any advice on what to do?

    Thanks all,

    fakelvis

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  • Well, first off, please provide a link so we can see what you are talking about.

    I’m not totally sure what you want, but since you are talking about the main page, but not wanting the post in your feed, are you trying to say you want something to appear on the main page but not be a post–but be static and not in your rss feed?

    If so, you could use my AWSOM News Announcement plugin to put a static area on your index (or actually anywhere if you use the custom theme code) that looks like a post but doesn’t go in the rss feed.

    Thread Starter fakelvis

    (@fakelvis)

    OK… a (hopefully) better explaination:

    This Post was my first attempt to write in ‘pirate’ (on International Talk Like a Pirate Day). This Post appeared on my main page and in my feed. This was the desired outcome.

    Later, I created and linked to this Page from the original, which is a pure english ‘translation’ of the original. I created this as a Page so that it didn’t appear in my feed or my Main Page. I wanted it to have a permanent, static link on the blog, but to not appear when going through my past posts.

    A Page fits this bill perfectly, but I would like to migrate it to a Post (if possible) that does the same: has a static position, but doesn’t appear in my feed or main page.

    Hope that helps.

    Well, this all depends on what you want exactly. I assume you want it to be a post because you want it to be a part of your regular post archive, so that people can find it and scroll through your posts to get to it. This sort of forces it to be a part of the regular posts system though. So a new entry would obviously end up on the main page and be a part of the feed. You could try going into phpmyadmin or another MySql editor and manually copy the file contents into a post and set it to be older, so it will appear in the lineup as if it were posted in the past, so it won’t appear on your main page and won’t be in the feed as a new entry. You can link directly to any post by looking at it’s single post page and simply copying the url to that, so that makes it static to link to.

    I’m not aware of a plugin that makes a new post not appear on the index or feed though.

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