Adding Pages

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  kjfootz · Member · Feb 25, 2015 at 7:11 pm

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  I am totally new at this and have little knowledge of how to set up a word press page. I would like to have a Top Menu part, I think they are called Pages, that have different Categories such as (Blog, About me, Recipes, etc.) and then I would like to add varies posts underneath each category. How do I go about doing this? I need a step by step.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 25, 2015 at 7:32 pm

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  This is not a CSS editing question. The custom design upgrade is not required to establish a custom menu.

  We organize posts by assigning categories to them, and dynamic category pages automatically created by the software when we publish posts are not the same as static Pages that we bloggers create.

  Please read this first Post vs. Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  (1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
  (2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.

  Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.

  By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page and have your published posts display on another page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ but doing that does not change what follows.

  Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ 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 assign categories to posts. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  Until we publish a post with a category assigned to it the relevant dynamic categories page will not have any data that it can display.

  This guide will walk you through how to create category pages for your blog, to display groupings of similar posts on pages other than your front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  Create a custom menu
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
  Add dynamic categories and sub-categories pages to it
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
  Create order and sub-menus (dropdowns)
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well. Here is more information:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/

  Custom menus

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  kjfootz · Member · Feb 26, 2015 at 9:44 pm

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  Awesome! This has helped a lot. The only thing that I can’t seem to change now is a pervious “About me” page I posted. When I first posted it, it showed up on my menu, but now that I have added categories to my menu, it doesn’t show up anymore. Is there a way to attach a page to a category so it pops up on the menu but isn’t a regular post that will show up in my recent posts?

  I want this to only be scene if people click on the menu “About me”.