How to post content under a menu heading
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Hello, I have set up a blog using the Shoreditch theme and have set up several menu headings as I want to be able to blog on a variety of subjects. I have been able to make one post under one of the menu headings, but when I try and add a new post under the same menu heading it deletes the first post. Can anyone tell me how I add additional posts under one menu heading without this happening please? Alternatively, should I just add my content using the ‘write’ button and attach it somehow to the menu heading afterwards? I hope that makes sense and am grateful for any help! Many thanks Louisa
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Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one at https://wordpress.com/themes/shoreditch/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://shoreditchdemo.wordpress.com/
All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/
Posts and Pages are very different. Category pages created by the software when we assign categories to posts are also not the same as static pages we create.
You begin by assigning categories to your posts.
This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) Or 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 a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.
So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one 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-menusPlease see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
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Dear timethief, thank you very much for all the information, that was really helpful.
best wishes
Louisa
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