Link Categories on Menus

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  cbates123 · Member · Feb 23, 2014 at 4:41 pm

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  Is there any solution to be able to add a Link Category to my Top Menu. I want all the links in a specific Category to be displayed in the Blog area not the sidebar.
  The other solution I can see is if I could create a page that mimics the Link widget displaying all the links in a category. I could then set up a menu item to that page.
  Everything I have found requires me to either make a page template and upload that page via FTP or install a plugin. Neither of which can be done with the free service offered with WordPress.com hosting, right?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 12:32 am

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  Create Categories and sub-categories and assign them to posts prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

  Then create a custom menu and add the dynamic Categories and sub-categories pages to it and arrange them to create drop-downs.

  Please read this first Post vs. Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  (1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
  (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 and have your published posts display on another page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/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.

  This guide will walk you through how to create category pages for your blog, to display groupings of similar posts on pages other than your front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  Create a custom menu
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
  Add dynamic categories and sub-categories pages to it
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
  Create order and sub-menus (dropdowns)
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Here’s a link to my post on this 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.

  Custom menus