How do I add a category to the menu bar?

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  nedvanwinkle · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 5:32 pm

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  I wish to add a category to the menu bar. But when I finally succeeded, one of the other categories was dropped.

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  thatrobyn · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 6:04 pm

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  Hey there, Edward!

  I see several Categories in your two custom menus. Could you tell me what isn’t working properly, precisely?

  I can help further if I know your goal.

  Thanks so much!

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  nedvanwinkle · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 7:32 pm

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  First of all, I only want one menu.

  Second, the categories I want on the menu are Home, Opinion, Humor, Personal, and Daily Rant. I would liked to add categories later, too.

  I’ve been to the appearance>menus page, but no amount of fiddling with it seems to work. I guess I created another menu in my efforts to figure it out.

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  thatrobyn · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 11:49 pm

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  Thank you so much for that information!

  It looks like you almost have it here:
  https://ifyouaskmedotme.wordpress.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php

  You can add a home link by creating a custom link, using your site’s URL. Those instructions are here:

  Menus

  Additionally, while you’ve added Opinion, Humor, Personal, and Daily Rant to the menu, you haven’t added the menu to your site.

  To do this, take a look at this image of your current settings:
  https://cloudup.com/c5GtgWhwcpW

  Remove the check in the box for “Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu.” Then, select the box for “Primary Navigation (Currently set to: Opinion).”

  Then, save your changes. That will add the 5-item menu to your site.

  Let me know how that works out for you. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks very much.