Major help with categories!

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  thealolife · Member · Feb 1, 2017 at 12:18 pm

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  Hi there,
  I’ve tried to set up my wordpress site to no avail as I am really struggling to set up the categories and tabs properly. Ideally what I need is three different main categories (‘adventures’, ‘headspace and inner peace’ and ‘movement’) and then have each of those main categories with a drop down bar that has different tabs which i can make individual blog pages for. I.e. if you clicked on the ‘movement’ tab and selected ‘yoga’ from the dropdown menu i want to be able to have a bunch of different yoga posts for that tab. I really cant figure out how to do this! in terms of the main homepage im then wondering how i get each new post regardless of the category or topic to how up so it is a constant feed of all my new posts?
  I really appreciate any help with this. I’ve already read heaps of tutorials and watched videos but nothing seems to be making sense. I am using wordpress on mozilla firefox if that helps.
  Thank you!
  Nadia

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  timethief · Member · Feb 2, 2017 at 1:37 am

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  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-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/