Categorizing Blog Posts In a Menu?
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Hi Everyone. New to blogging but working on a project for my company. I’ve read through many tutorials and am stuck on something.
I am trying to understand how categories work. Ideally, I’d like to have my blogs categorized by topic, and have each topic have a menu along the top.
Is there a way that I can have all blog posts of Topic A show up underneath a menu corresponding to Topic A? I understand everything will shoe up on the main page in reverse chronological order, but if there a way to sort the posts by category and have those categories each have their own menu, that when clicking on, will only show the posts related to that category?
I just can’t wrap my head around this concept. Thanks for the help.
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You can absolutely do that with category pages:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
The tutorial linked above should walk you through it step by step but if you get stuck, just let us know and we’ll be happy to help walk you through the rough parts.
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I’ve read through many tutorials and am stuck on something.
The tutorials you find online are for WordPress.ORG installs. They are not for your WordPress.COM blog. The only relevant step by step tutorial for learning WordPress.COM blogging is at http://learn.wordpress.com
There is only one page in any blog that we can post to and by default it’s the front page of the blog. Though we cannot post to more than one page we can create the appearance we have done so. What’s critical is knowing that the static pages we bloggers create will never automatically update. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ Only dynamic Categories pages will automatically update when we publish posts. The relevant support docs for creating custom menus, adding categories and sub-categories pages into it and ordering them to create drop downs are at:
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-menusRead this carefully http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
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.
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