How do I add items to a drop down list of categories?
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I have created a drop down list for categories and I have created 9 categories; however, I cannot find instructions on how to add these categories to the drop down list. I’d appreciate any instructions to help me do this.
Best, Joanne
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Your blog is private. We volunteers cannot view it so I tagged this thread for Staff assistance. More to the point is this Pages and posts http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ are not the same and static pages and dynamic category pages are not the same either.
Among the most common misconceptions is that bloggers fail to understand is
(1) there is only one page we can post to in any blog and
(2) the static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ they create do not automatically update.Only the dynamic pages like Categories, Tags and Archives created by the software when we publish a post we that we have assigned Categories and Tags to will update automatically update with new posts.
By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. 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-menusRead this carefully http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
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.
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Hi there,
I was looking at your blog and while there were quite a few categories, there was only one category that had posts in it. Once you have posts in the other categories they will show up in the dropdown.
Let me know if you have any questions with this!
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Thanks for your help. We’re heading to Laos in a couple of days so I’ll soon see if the others appear.
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Thanks for your help..we’re heading to Laos in a couple of days, so I’ll soon see if the next category will appear in the drop down menu.
cheers.
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