Menu page problem

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  staceygreenliving · Member · Sep 28, 2011 at 7:04 pm

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  I’m trying to change the name of one of my navigation labels and everytime I do, it changes the title of the post I’m working on. Ex – the menu page is called “Lifestyle” and I want the title of the post to be “Fast, faster, fastest.” Everytime I change the label, they both become “Liftestyle” or “Fast, faster, fastest” instead of one of each. I have been able to change 4 other menu pages and this is the only one that is causing problems. I’m using the “Spring Loaded” theme. Can anyone help? I want to rip my hair out.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 28, 2011 at 7:28 pm

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  I don’t think you are clear on the differences between Categories, Pages and Posts. You cannot post to pages. Pages are static and sit outside the blog structure. With WordPress, you use Categories to organize posts into subjects and then you can add those categories to your navigation using a custom menu.

  A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus

  Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  What’s critical is:
  (1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  (2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page,but we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.