Making a mother category

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  dribblingpensioner · Member · Jun 12, 2017 at 8:40 pm

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  I know you can make a mother page ( which I haven’t tried ) but how do you make a mother category , I tried and failed.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jun 12, 2017 at 8:54 pm

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  Create a custom menu and add the categories pages and sub categories pages into it.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#1-create-a-custom-menu
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages

  Menus

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  timethief · Member · Jun 12, 2017 at 8:59 pm

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  Note: What follows is not related to your issue.

  I also suggest switching to a newer theme because that one was retired long ago. Retired themes do not support all wordpress.COM features.

  See here:
  https://wordpress.com/theme/colinear
  https://wordpress.com/theme/able

  re: switching themes

  Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs.
  Note that switching themes https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#switch-themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site, you to

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php

  *Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog. wp-admin/themes.php

  The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.

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  dribblingpensioner · Member · Jun 12, 2017 at 9:36 pm

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  Thanks TT, i’ll have to digest all this first

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  timethief · Member · Jun 12, 2017 at 9:41 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  Here’s more in case you need it.

  1. To edit or delete a category assigned to a post (whether it’s a draft or has already been published), go to Dashboard → Posts → All Posts in your dashboard, hover over the title and click the Edit link. To delete the post click the Trash link.

  For editing posts in the new editor see https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#go-back-and-edit-posts

  For bulk editing posts see https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit

  2. To edit/delete categories in your dashboard go to Dashboard → Posts → Categories

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

  * You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with your actual blog’s name in that URL.

  3. To edit or delete dynamic category pages in your custom menu go to Dashboard > Appearance > Menus

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php

  * You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with your actual blog’s name in that URL.

  4. To edit or delete Tags go to
  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=post_tag

  * You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with your actual blog’s name in that URL.

  The combined total of categories and tags assigned to any post must not exceed 15 or it will not display on WordPress.COM Categories and Tags pages and in the WordPress.COM Reader. Never assign the same keyword as both a category and a tag as they are considered to be the same for search engine purposes. Please read this support doc closely http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts