How do I add a separate category section on my blog?

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  willheath · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 2:15 pm

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  I currently have a category section titled “articles” on by blog, I have tried unsuccessfully to create another category section for galleries, which would (like the articles section) then have categories listed below them. When I try to create another category section, it just duplicates the article one.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 2:48 pm

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  Staff have provided this support documentation entry for those who want to structure their blog like a website which is what you want to do. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  What’s critical is to understand when creating a website structure is the following:
  1. The differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages.

  3. We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. Although there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance we have done so by creating a custom menu. In that custom menu you will be displaying Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation to achieve what you want.

  These are the how-to instructions:

  1. You create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  2. You add the Categories you want to display and arrange them in the order you want.

  3. Then you add and drop and drag the sub-categories below the appropriate Categories, and when you have everything arranged in the menu that you want you save the menu.

  4. Go to the “theme location” module at upper left on the menu page. Select your custom menu name from the pull-down labeled “primary location.” Click the save button in that module.

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  willheath · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 3:21 pm

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  Considering the above, it would appear that what I need is the ability to create another custom menu, which, like my main menu “articles” would allow me to do what I want. Perhaps my theme only allows for one menu, hence the duplication of categories when I create another menu?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 3:33 pm

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  Only the Beach theme and the Enterprise theme have the feature of 2 custom menus. All others have only 1.

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  willheath · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 5:22 pm

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  Thanks. I solved my problem by using the subcategory feature, allowing me to do what I wanted….which was separating articles from other things, such as galleries.

  Thanks again