Adding Categories to Static Pages

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  notzeus · Member · Mar 29, 2016 at 11:48 pm

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  Hi!

  Struggling to add posts by categories under static pages. For example, I want the page to look like;

  Page
  – Page Text
  – Combined category posts listed underneath

  I have been able to achieve limited success by creating a custom link where
  https://theplebeiansite.wordpress.com/?cat=(id=gaming),(id=technology)
  However, this does not show the page at the top as desired.

  I hope this makes sense!

  Kind regards,
  Josh

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2016 at 2:29 am

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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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  notzeus · Member · Mar 30, 2016 at 4:29 am

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  Hi Timethief,

  Thanks for the above, I have found it very informative and will probably be popping back and forth to these links for a while!

  I have two follow up questions;

  1: For a parent menu item I have set it up so it pulls all blog posts from the underlying categories. Is there a way to add a title and description at the top of the ‘page’ (in understanding it is not a page)?
  2: Is it possible to do a similar thing for the underlying categories? Though I understand that they are already headed by their category names – is it possible to have a category description appear as well?

  I apologize if the answers in one of the links above, still processing the information as I go!

  Kind regards,
  Josh

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  notzeus · Member · Mar 30, 2016 at 5:01 am

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  Hi,

  Just an update, I have resolved my issues after discovering the dashboard (how to: https://en.support.wordpress.com/dashboard/) and then going into categories and assigning a parent category, as well as adding descriptions as desired (how to: https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/2/)

  Kind regards,
  Josh