How to put posts into their respective categories.

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  thenewpollutionireland · Member · May 29, 2018 at 6:58 pm

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  Hi all!

  I’m running a music blog so I’m dealing with posts across different topics such as reviews, new releases, podcasts, feature pieces etc. And so I want to sort each post into it’s respective category.

  Problem is this:
  I want to display the different categories at the banner of my home page to make it easy for people to find what they’re looking for and it seems you must create pages to do this. I did this and then created categories to correspond to the pages but the posts aren’t going into the pages when they’ve been categorised. An empty page doesn’t look so good so I need to get this sorted.

  Here’s the blog for more reference: https://thenewpollutionireland.wordpress.com/

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  staff-oikake · Staff · May 29, 2018 at 7:14 pm

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  Hi,

  Category page urls need to have /category/ inside of them.

  For example, right now the url for reviews is: https://thenewpollutionireland.wordpress.com/reviews/ which is linking to a blank page.

  If you change the url to: https://thenewpollutionireland.wordpress.com/category/reviews/ it will show the proper category page for reviews.

  If you do the same for the rest of the links of the menu, everything will work as you intend.

  Hope this helps.

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  thenewpollutionireland · Member · May 30, 2018 at 9:49 am

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  Thanks a bunch!

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  thenewpollutionireland · Member · May 30, 2018 at 9:52 am

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  Just wondering how exactly I edit the URL? Is it done in the customizer?

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  loveracket · Member · May 31, 2018 at 6:11 am

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  Are you trying to make categories show on the menu from wordpress.com or word press plugin?

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  thenewpollutionireland · Member · May 31, 2018 at 9:43 am

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  I was originally trying through wordpress.com but if there’s a better way to go about it via plugins I’m all ears?

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  loveracket · Member · May 31, 2018 at 11:05 am

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  You don’t have to use plugins. Click on my site. Go to settings. Click on writing. You will see a section that says categories. Add all the category titles you need. Leave description blank. Save.

  Now go to Blog post. Hit add. On the top right, click the gear icon and you will see category sections you created. Choose your category. Publish. Do one for each category.

  Finally. Go back to settings. Click customize. Click the man site menu until you get to. Click menu. Click add item. Look for your category. You can slide each category under whichever page you have created or drag to the main menu. N order to remove the “category” title off the post you have to use the paid version. That option should be under where you are. If it doesn’t disappear then you will have to download css plugins or some other kind

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  staff-oikake · Staff · May 31, 2018 at 8:05 pm

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  Hi thenewpollutionireland,

  you can easily add custom links to your menu by going to:

  Customize -> Menus -> Select the menu your site is displaying -> Add items -> Custom links

  Using Custom links you can set the url and the link text.

  You can find more info about Custom menus and links here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  Hope this helps!

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  supernovia · Staff · Jun 1, 2018 at 8:55 pm

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  Thank you for your help here, @loveracket and @alejandrovs !

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  dmvintern · Member · Jun 2, 2018 at 1:37 am

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  Thanks @loveracket that helped a lot!