categories in navigation menu

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  sharkfreer · Member · Oct 7, 2009 at 7:20 pm

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  Hi, I’ don’t have the update yet.

  What i want in my blog is:

  – organize posts into different categories
  – don’t have all posts under “HOME”, just show them on click on categories (I’d like to use HOME as a static page)
  – have a navigation menu with all categories linked in

  can i do that through the update? just adding css lines and without need to change HTML? (changing/adding… HTML is not allowed, is it?)

  thanks

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 7, 2009 at 7:32 pm

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  You don’t need the CSS upgrade to do any of that:

  – organize posts into different categories
  Here are a couple of Support documents about using categories:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/category-management/
  Everyone here can use categories on posts.

  – don’t have all posts under “HOME”, just show them on click on categories (I’d like to use HOME as a static page)
  Here is a Support article about making your home page static:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  – have a navigation menu with all categories linked in
  Read this to learn how to make header tabs that link to your categories:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/page-tabs-as-external-links/

  The last does not work in all themes, but it’s fine in Blix

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  sharkfreer · Member · Oct 8, 2009 at 11:00 am

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  many many thanks, specially for the last answer about categories tabs! amazing

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Oct 8, 2009 at 12:01 pm

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  You are welcome! The last link is Panos’s site, and yes, he is amazing.

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  sharkfreer · Member · Oct 9, 2009 at 3:34 pm

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  I’ve just discovered that INove theme has an option to display pages or categories in navigation bar. It can be useful too.