Getting started and knowing nothing

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  charlesharpole · Member · Oct 23, 2013 at 6:23 am

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  How do I add my existing category to a post, single entry essay?
  Instructions for basic ‘getting started’ here are terrible for the rank novice. Typical of computer nerds.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 23, 2013 at 7:06 pm

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  Hi there,
  All support docs are here http://support.wordpress.com
  Search for Categories http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=Categories

  Adding Categories to Posts via the Categories Module
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#adding-categories-via-the-categories-module

  Adding Categories to the blog via the Dashboard for later selection and assignment to posts

  Organize Posts with Categories

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 23, 2013 at 7:11 pm

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  Start with http://learn.wordpress.com.

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  charlesharpole · Member · Oct 25, 2013 at 2:37 pm

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  The correct answer, helpful people, is “go to the Widgets and fix adding categories by adding a category Widget to your messages, called ‘posts’.”
  Such a direct answer would have saved me two hours of pain with the miserably chatty “instructions.”