Bueno Custom Menu

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  jericones · Member · Nov 9, 2011 at 6:41 pm

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  Hi there, I am trying to add a page, which is a page of 1 particular category posts. I’ve read all the support on how to do this and ackowledge that this is only possible in some themes. I am told that Bueno supports Custom Menus but still it doesn’t work saying my theme only supports 1 menu. Can someone advise please?
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  timethief · Member · Nov 9, 2011 at 7:09 pm

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  I think you are confused. This has nothing to do with the theme you are using at all. Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  What’s critical is:
  (1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  (2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.

  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 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. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus

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  timethief · Member · Nov 9, 2011 at 7:11 pm

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  Just in case I have not been clear – you cannot post to post to pages. Pages are static and sit outside the blog structure. With WordPress, you use Categories to organize posts into subjects and then you can add those Categories to your navigation using a custom menu.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 2:37 am

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  @jericones: You’re confusing menus with menu items.
  • A menu is a group of clickable tabs; each tab is a menu item. Your 
”Home”, “About me” etc. are menu items; all of them together are your top nav menu (= group of tabs in the header area).
  • All themes that display tabs in the header area support custom top nav menus.
  • Supports one menu means one top nav custom menu. You can create and display as many custom menus as you like: one in the header area, the rest in your sidebar (by adding Custom Menu widgets).

  So, you need to go to Appearance > Menus, create a menu, give it a name (say, “My Top Menu”), select your pages in the Pages module, click Add to Menu, select the category you want in the Categories module, click Add to Menu; once they’re all added to your menu, drag them up or down to change their order, if necessary, then click Save Menu; then select that menu from the pulldown in the Theme Locations module, click Save.

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  jericones · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 1:48 pm

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  Thanks – got it sorted at last

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  timethief · Member · Nov 10, 2011 at 11:21 pm

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  Thanks for letting us know you sorted this. :)