Categories & Pages

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  maydaypictures · Member · Oct 12, 2011 at 6:13 pm

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  Hello all,

  I am trying to find a way to make each of my categories it’s own page. A real page, not just an RSS feed. I’d like to have entry content on the category page, where I explain the category, then I’d like to have the posts from that particular category listed below the content.

  Anyone know of an easy way to do this?

  I appreciate any help.

  Thanks,

  Mayday
  Mayday Pictures

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  timethief · Member · Oct 12, 2011 at 6:19 pm

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  You can create a custom menu and have Categories in it. All Categories pages are dynamic and we cannot insert text into them so you cannot do this:

  I’d like to have entry content on the category page, where I explain the category, then I’d like to have the posts from that particular category listed below the content.

  This is what is possible on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. 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

  Also note that if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page ie. a landing page for your site, and also create a “blog” page for your posts to display on, but that’s optional.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

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  maydaypictures · Member · Oct 18, 2011 at 3:51 pm

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  Looks like I’ll be moving to a hosted WP site sooner than I thought. Thanks for the help!

  Mayday

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  timethief · Member · Oct 18, 2011 at 9:56 pm

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  You’re welcome.