How do I create different Menu sections?
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My WordPress site is 5 years old. I am looking to grow the areas I blog about after only using the single Home page for all my posts since I created it.
1. Home (static page)
2. Cycling In Nairobi (posts on navigating the City of Nairobi on two wheels)
3. Travel (posts of my other travels beyond Nairobi)
4. Musings (posts on past experiences with fitness)
5. Want to be a guest blogger? (static page)
6. About (static page)The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.
However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. Create your pages first
Front page:
Posts page:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/After you do that you go to > Dashboard > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page:You need to be aware that:
1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.
3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.
So the process you need to use is:
a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories
b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus -
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Thank you so much. This is so helpful. I think I was sorta on the way there.
Much appreciated.
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So my menu items are: 1. Home (static page)
2. Cycling In Nairobi (posts on navigating the City of Nairobi on two wheels)
3. Travel (posts of my other travels beyond Nairobi)
4. Musings (posts on past experiences with fitness)
5. Want to be a guest blogger? (static page)
6. About (static page)What do I do to assign a post to a specific menu section/page?
For instance: I write a post on a trip to a campsite by a lake, and want it to appear under the “Travel” Menu.
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What do I do to assign a post to a specific menu section/page?
For instance: I write a post on a trip to a campsite by a lake, and want it to appear under the “Travel” Menu.
I answered you in detail above the first time I responded here. Go up to my response and read from You need to be aware that downwards.
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I do not use the videos myself. For more information on creating a custom menu, visit our dedicated support page: https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus
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