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  chrisvrojo · Member · Jul 14, 2014 at 6:04 pm

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  I am trying to create a static index file on my widget sidebar. my goal is to have sections that you have a hyper-link to that will take you to the topic page in the system. I cannot get it to work and tried to set in multiple category and all my links show up. What is the proper process.

  Cuisine
  American
  Asian
  Brazilian
  French
  Fusion
  German
  Greek
  Irish
  Italian
  Spanish
  Southern
  Seafood
  Course
  Amuse Bouche
  Appetizer
  Breakfast / brunch
  Main
  Veggie
  Soup?
  Dessert
  Quick bites / bar food
  Techniques
  Tricks / Tips

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  timethief · Member · Jul 14, 2014 at 6:10 pm

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  See below know that categories and tags are assigned to posts, not pages, and there are dynamic category pages and dynamic tags pages they display on, as well as, widgets that display them in sidebars.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  Organize Posts with Tags

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  chrisvrojo · Member · Jul 14, 2014 at 6:12 pm

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  Thank you

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  timethief · Member · Jul 14, 2014 at 6:18 pm

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  You’re welcome. Also note what follows please.

  Pages and posts http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ are not the same but please read on.

  Among the most common misconceptions is that bloggers fail to understand is
  (1) there is only one page we can post to in any blog and
  (2) the static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ they create do not automatically update.

  Only the dynamic pages like Categories, Tags and Archives created by the software when we publish a post we that we have assigned Categories and Tags to will update automatically update with new posts.

  By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories pages into the custom menu.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  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-menus

  Read 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.

  Custom menus