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Hello, On our blog page I have added a few sections to make it easier for readers to find the content they need. However, if they click on a category or search a topic the results have them start back at the top of the blog page -- this feels confusing. How do I have the top of the actual blog section be what they are taken back to? This blog https://www.bigcatcreative.com/blog and this one https://www.will-myers.com/all-resources function the way I would like mine to. I am assuming this is custom code but I can't find anything anywhere to help me figure this out. Willing to purchase a plug in if there is one available (not entirely sure what to search for). 

Also, I know the workaround is to create a separate blog landing page and use summary blocks -- but i think that would mess with 300+ existing blog urls. 

Thank you for your help.

Blog post URLs will not change if you use summary blocks. Not if you leave the actual blog page URL as is. You swap page/navigation names between the summary blocks blog and the main blog. That is how my blog works and I have a lot of posts with 16 subjects/categories in a drop-down menu to choose from. 

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Yes, that makes sense. But if I created a Blog landing page (to add in summary blocks) I would need that main blog page to be "/blog" therefor the current /blog would have to be renamed changing all of that content urls. I feel like I am missing a simple solution that I can't figure out. haha

Derrick! The way on your blog, you have featured posts on the blog 'home' but if I click on a category that goes away -- how did you do that? 

This is the explanation, it is not that difficult to set up:

I use two blog pages. One is for the actual full posts, the second is to create the drop-down menu. The first blog is in the unlinked section of my site, the menu blog is the front-facing blog page. 

Each full post receives a category, if the category goes over 30 posts, number them cat-1 and cat-2 like travel-1 for the first 30 and travel -2 for the next 30, etc. In the second blog, I create a post and name it  Travel, and the only thing in that post is a title and summary block or blocks, no featured image, no excerpt. The summary blocks pull content from the main blog page by the travel category. I also give that post the category Travel. 

The drop-down menu pulls content from the second blog, and it uses the category of each post which are my categories/subjects that you see in the menu. 

I also have a post in the second blog called featured, it is the latest post so it rides at the top of the page. I have one summary block that pulls content from the main blog filtered for featured posts, using the featured toggle. This is usually my newest post, but it can also be one I want to put back at the top of the page for whatever reason. 

This takes some time to set up, but once it is done, any new post gets a category and it immediately shows up on the second blog page under the correct category. Sometimes you may have to move the slider adjustment in a summary block to include more posts. You scroll down and click any category, click it,  and it goes to it, by itself. 

This is all done without any code. My blog has lots of Custom CSS. It only changes the look of each item. I also hide the categories from the post, since the title says what it is. I hide the dates because I fudge those to get the posts in the order I want them to be. If I want a date I  type it at the top of my post. 

One extra capability of this arrangement is I can create a link to any category in the second blog and put that link anywhere including on my Nav bar. I did that with my photography lessons and other posts. 

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