How to make pages display contents of a category?

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  iwithered · Member · May 11, 2013 at 2:22 pm

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  I basically need a page to show a category, eg:
  I make a post in the iOS category, it’s also visible in the iOS page?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 11, 2013 at 2:27 pm

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  That is what the standard categories pages do. You can add categories to your main navigation by creating a custom menu.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 11, 2013 at 2:30 pm

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  Note that the categories have to actually have published posts in them before you can add them to the menu otherwise there would be nothing for WordPress to show on the category page (error 404 not found).

  This would be your “minecraft” categories page: http://iwithered.wordpress.com/category/gaming/minecraft/ .

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  iwithered · Member · May 11, 2013 at 5:23 pm

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  Thanks, would the menus be located at the top of the page, instead of pages?

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2013 at 5:28 pm

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  Yes. If you create a custom menu the menu bar will contain the items you choose to include in the custom menu.

  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 too will update automatically update with 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/#adding-tag-post-format-pages

  Here’s a link to a custom menu walk-through > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/

  There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and you can read about them here. > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

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  iwithered · Member · May 11, 2013 at 5:35 pm

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  Okay, but will my posts be inside of them? Depending on what category they’re in?

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2013 at 5:38 pm

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  Yes. 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 too will update automatically update with posts.

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  iwithered · Member · May 11, 2013 at 5:43 pm

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  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2013 at 5:43 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.