How to have posts show up on homepage & be able to be selected in dropdown menu.

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  thatsfestive7 · Member · Oct 12, 2014 at 9:17 pm

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  Can anyone tell me if there is a way for me to add posts to a specific tab on my drop down menu as well as them still showing up on my homepage? I would like for all my recent posts to show up on the home page and for people also to have the option to select a tab on my menu to see certain types of posts. I’m using the forever theme. I don’t want to have the categories somewhere on the bottom or side, I want them to be linked to the tabs in the drop down menu I created. Is there a way to do this without having to have a static home page?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 12, 2014 at 9:31 pm

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  Technically you can’t post to more than one page on any blog but do read on. Static Pages and dynamic Category Pages are not the same. The former cannot automatically update but the latter do.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  If you want to have pages that do update then they must be replaced by dynamic category pages that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category.

  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-menus

  For a step by step approach see here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

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  thatsfestive7 · Member · Oct 26, 2014 at 3:55 pm

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  This was incredibly helpful. Thank you!!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 26, 2014 at 4:53 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes. :)