How2: Publish to a new Navigation Tab (or Page) in Wordpress 2.5.1

In my previous post (here) I talked about how I added a new page to TysTips.com entitled “Projects”. Now I’d like to show you the easiest way to add posts to your new page in Wordpress 2.5.1.

Adding posts to specific pages in a Wordpress blog is made simple by a the Inline Posts Plugin. Here are the steps:

Download the Inline Posts Plugin, unzip, and upload it into your wp-content/plugins/ folder. I use FileZilla to manage my content, as illustrated below (click the image to enlarge).
Activate the plugin by logging into your Wordpress blog and navigating to Plugins.
Once activated, you need to find the ID of the post you want to include in your new page. When you include the post ID it needs to be surrounded by double brackets like this [[##]].
The post ID can be found in the permalink section just below the title of the post. This post’s ID is number 49. See the image below: (click to enlarge).
If I want to include this post in my new Projects page, I need to edit the Projects page (Manage>Pages>Projects) and type “[ [ 49 ] ]” in the body of my Projects page. Be sure to use the [[##]] format and not {{##}}.
Now if I click on my Projects tab to navigate to my Projects page, I can see the content of this post (post #49).

Pretty slick isn’t it! One last tip. If you add multiple posts to your new page you might find that they aren’t separated with enough space between them. To fix this addbetween the posts, like this:

Also, the titles of my posts were smaller than they needed to be (the plugin had titles set for H2 instead of H1). To change this go into the settings for the Inline Post Plugin and change the header settings to match the rest of your blog (in my case I made my titles bigger by changing this from H2 to H1).