Getting Closer to Organized

Following up to yesterday's post, I think I have successfully solved my quest to be more organized thanks to the advice from PaulaB at http://thetemenosjournal.com/ (wonderful blog, go read it). I ended up deleting the page menus I'd set up yesterday and adding category menus instead. Then I went back through all my posts and changed the categories from the previous mish-mash to one or two of the following:

Industry Fridays - posts about the business of art Life - posts about what's happening now (online journalish) Memories - posts about the past Ruby - puppy posts Wheels - anything to do with motorcycles Quotes - cool things said by others

Now, if you click on the above categories you will see the progression of posts on these subjects. The coolest one for me is the Ruby category because you can see from the pictures how she's growing. Industry Fridays now makes more sense too. Conversely, other categories like Quotes and Wheels need more material, espcially the latter. For a blog called Riding Bitch, I need to actually be riding! Not to mention that I miss it and fear I've forgotten everything already. But I digress.

For anyone interested in organizing your posts in a similar fashion, hopefully these steps will make sense:

Go to your dashboard, click on Appearance, then hit Menus. You will see a box for Pages and a box for Categories. The categories will be the ones you have already been using. If you don't see all of them, hit View All (instead of Most Used). If you still don't see them, go back to Edit mode any of your posts and manually add the categories you want. Then go back to Appearance/Menus/Categories.

Once you see all the categories, click on the ones you want to filter your posts with, then click Add to Menu and name your Menu. You can move the category boxes to the order you want them to read on your blog by simply clicking and dragging them. Any time you want to preview the result, just hit Save Menu and go back to your blog.

After that, you might want to go back through your posts like I did and clean up your categories. I deleted all the extraneous ones so my only choices are the six mentioned above.

In the end, your posts should show up in chronological order under the new tab you set up for your category.

If that doesn't happen, go to the Support page and ask the experts because I ain't no expert. I'm literally teaching myself as I go, asking for advice from others and very grateful to have blogging friends who know more than I do!

Good luck.