Category List on Pages

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  legendaryspork9 · Member · Feb 14, 2023 at 9:22 am

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  Hello Support,

  I hope you are well.

  I have created a number of pages which show a category list as part of it. I want the category list to only show certain categories related to what the page is about.

  I am on the free version, is there any way to do this?

  Cheers,

  LS9

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  staff-95percentghost · Staff · Feb 15, 2023 at 9:03 am

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  Hi! The Categories block doesn’t work like that as such; there isn’t a way to limit which categories are listed; but if you’re wanting to get a series of unique category lists, it might be worth your time to create individual menus that list different sets of categories, and show the relevant menu as either a sidebar widget, or an inserted Navigation block at the top of each page.

  We have some general information about creating menus here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/create-a-menu/

  There is a navigation menu widget:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/navigation-menu-widget/

  This is the guide for the Navigation block:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-editing/theme-blocks/navigation-block/

  If you want to use either of these methods and insert them into your sidebar, then you’ll need add all of the menus to the sidebar as a whole, and use the “widget visibility” settings to ensure each unique widget only appears on the desired page:
  https://wordpress.com/support/widgets/#widget-visibility

  Of course, you could also choose to insert each menu on its relevant page in the actual content area, by means of the Navigation block – it’s worth checking over the guide for the Navigation block in case this can be useful to you. Let us know if you have any other questions!