Assigning a post to a menu item
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This is copied/paste response that I wrote on apparently the wrong wordpress forum. Geez! I’m now on my 4th day trying to figure out how to assign posts to particular menu items. I followed someone’s advice from WordPress here below, and this is what happened:
This is what I did:
(1) I created a post; then copied the permalink: wesfornes.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/is-anarchy-a-w…-consideration/
(2) Then I went to “appearances” then “menus” then “links”; I pasted the URL (as seen above) and then entered the menu item I want this post to show on: “Politics”
Result:
It added another menu titled “Politics”‘ and when I click on it, error 404 shows.This is not easier than it looks, more importantly it is not intuitive. A conversation with a human being via phone would be ideal so that I do not spend the remainder of my xmas vacation troubleshooting.
Let me reiterate: I would like 4 menu items: Home/About/Politics/Spirituality/Philosophy. Then, when I write a post regarding one of the menu subjects, I want it posted (or designated) to THAT particular menu item. Thus, rather than 100 posts showing up on the home page, I want to assign posts to particular menu items.
Wes
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There are many misunderstandings and misconceptions when it comes to custom menus. I suggest you read these two posts I link to below.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/You have created static pages that will never automatically update. Technically you can’t post to more than one page on any blog but do read on. Static Pages and dynamic Category Pages are not the same. The former cannot automatically update but the latter do.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/If you want to have pages that do update then they must be replaced by dynamic category pages (and sub-category pages) that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category and/or sub-category.
By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. 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 organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories and sub-categories pages into the custom menu, and order them as you wish.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusFor a step by step approach see here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
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