displaying different post categories separately
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I’ve seen a few threads on the forums on closely related questions, but nothing which explains how to do exactly what I’m after. Here goes:
My main page is a static ‘about’ or ‘home’ page. I created more links in the header tabs (I’m using the Twenty Ten theme, btw) by adding pages (perhaps this isn’t the right way to go about it). I want two of these tabs to lead to the blog posts on two different subjects respectively, and I don’t want any page (in the general sense of ‘webpage’) to display the posts on both subjects. I wasn’t sure if I needed to somehow create two separate blogs for the same site, or if it would be better to write posts in a single blog, and distinguish them by giving them different categories.
In the second case (distinguishing posts by category), is it possible to have a header tab point to something like …wordpress.com/category/[name-of-category] ?
I’m afraid this isn’t very clear, but a quick look at my website (mostly made up of placeholders) should show you what I’m after.
Any help would be very gratefully received!
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Thanks, but I’ve already been through that guide, and I still can’t get the menus to do what I want.
In the menu editor I’ve created four menus, and assigned to two of them one page each, and to the others one blog category each. However, the menu bar on the webpage continues to display just two items, which corresponds to the two pages I’ve created.
I tried experimenting with the ‘Theme locations’ box in the menu editor. Firstly, I don’t understand what it means when it says ‘Your theme supports 1 menu. Select which menu you would like to use.’ As I said, I’m using the Twenty Ten theme, which should allow a whole row of menus (and it’s just allowed me to create four custom menus). In the dropdown menu underneath the words ‘Primary Navigation’ I tried selecting one of the names of the menus I’d created, and then just this one menu item appeared.
I also tried clicking the ‘Automatically add new top-level pages’ tab for each menu, but I couldn’t see that this made any difference.
I’m afraid the guide you pointed to doesn’t explain how to get round these problems.
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You can create as many menus as you want but the theme supports display of only 1 menu. Shot in the dark – does this post help? http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/06/17/custom-menus-arrive-at-wordpress-com/
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Aha, just realised what I was getting wrong…
I thought ‘a menu’ was just one of the tabs lined up underneath the header image, so I made a new menu for each tab I wanted. I now realise that the whole thing is a menu, and each tab is an item within it (or at least that’s how it makes sense to me). As you can see from my site, I’ve finally got it working how I want. Now I just need to come up with some content!
Thanks for your help, the link was very useful and interesting!
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