Adding a top menu bar and adding my posts to those static topics.

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  wildfoodfamily · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 2:35 pm

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  I want to add a top menu bar with home, about, and different categories like wild plants, seaweeds, childrens topics etc that are static. Then i want to add my posts to them. I want it so when you click on a topic at the top of the page like “seaweeds” it will open a page with all the post topics that you can click on to view like: how to eat seaweed
  deep water seaweeds
  kelp and other brown seaweeds
  etc…..
  thanks!
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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 2:42 pm

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  I can help with that. What’s critical when creating a custom menu is understanding how blogs are designed and being clear on the differences between pages and posts, and differences between static pages you create and dynamicc pages for Categories and Archives that the software automatically creates when we publish posts.

  A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or Tags pages and/or Custom Links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide.

  Pages bloggers create are static and are for content that rarely changes. They sit outside of the blog structure and you cannot post to multiple pages in any blog. There is only one main page for posts in a blog and all posts will display on the main blog page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  The front page of the blog by default will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page. We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can either create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories pages that are automatically generated by the software into the custom menu.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menu
  Creating Sub-Menus > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-of-menu-items-and-creating-sub-menus

  Here’s a link to a custom menu walkthrough > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/

  There are many common errors, misunderstanding and misconceptions when creating custom menus and you can read about them here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/