Activating a Widget in my Side Bar

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  littlegreenbeeapothecary · Member · Mar 6, 2016 at 10:56 pm

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  Hi, how do I place a post under categories in a Categories Widget?
  I don’t know how to activate this side bar. Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2016 at 11:11 pm

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  Have you read the relevant support doc at https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/?
  Note that we assign categories to posts, not pages https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and the categories widgets simply displays what we have done.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2016 at 11:11 pm

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  This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog

  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page you create and designate as a front page.

  By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top.

  When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

  So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

  You need to be aware that:

  1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

  3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

  So the process you need to use is:

  a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories

  b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu

  c. Add only the dynamic category page links and category sub-pages into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages, and arrange them in the order that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes like About, Copyright, Contact Info, etc. , not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes into your custom menu
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
  and arrange them in the order that you wish them that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

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  littlegreenbeeapothecary · Member · Mar 9, 2016 at 11:51 pm

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  Thank you timethief! This guidance is much appreciated.