Help with menu's

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  martinelisa31 · Member · Nov 24, 2013 at 11:00 pm

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  I tried to create custom menu’s, but they all show my “About Me” page. How do I edit those menu’s to make them their own page – and not just duplicates of my About Me page. Do I have to create a whole new page and then add it to my custom menu…? I’m very very new at this and I don’t understand exactly how a blog works. Can you help me?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 24, 2013 at 11:24 pm

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  Hi there,

  (1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog and
  (2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.

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

  By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page but doing that does not change what follows.

  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

  We can also add other items into a custom menu like static Pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages but as I said above no static Pages will ever automatically update.

  This may be helpful http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

  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

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  timethief · Member · Nov 24, 2013 at 11:25 pm

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  For creating a page see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

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  martinelisa31 · Member · Dec 25, 2013 at 6:56 am

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  Thank you. I figured it out :)