How to put links in a category description post ?

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  gannonserves · Member · Oct 25, 2013 at 3:26 pm

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  In creating the various menus and categories, is there a way to put a link in a category post? I understand that in the normal page text box there is the link icon but is there a way to perform the same function within a category’s description text box?

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  bobbol · Member · Oct 25, 2013 at 4:33 pm

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  gannonserves
  I take it you want to put a link inside the category name. The category name appears at the bottom of the post on the line that starts something like “Posted in…”

  As I’m sure you noticed that category name already links to posts of the same category. There is not going to be a way to put your own link there.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2013 at 5:06 pm

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  perform the same function within a category’s description text box?

  No the category description box is NOT HTML activated.

  All of these and the sub-pages in the dropdowns below them are static pages that will not automatically update.
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  (1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog and
  (2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.

  Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.

  By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page but doing that does not change what follows.

  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

  We can also add other items into a custom menu like static Pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages but as I said above no static Pages will ever automatically update.

  This may be helpful http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

  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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