Menu structure using categories

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  ananas9 · Member · Jun 5, 2015 at 8:06 pm

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  Hi

  I want to check if this is the best way to setup a menu using categories.

  Example:

  Home (All posts)
  Parent: Recipes (Posts from child categories)
  – Child: Lunch (Posts of child 1)
  – Child: Dinner (Posts of child 2)
  Parent category 2 (Posts from child categories)
  – Child 1 (Posts of child 1)
  – Child 2 (Posts of child 2)
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  I’ve made a parent category with child categories and linked them to my menu.

  When I want to publish a post in a child category, I think it should also be published in the parent category, otherwise that page will be empty?!
  I can imagine this might be bad for SEO. But I don’t know how to do this otherwise.

  Is there a better way to do this?

  Thanks :)

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 5, 2015 at 9:14 pm

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  When I want to publish a post in a child category, I think it should also be published in the parent category, otherwise that page will be empty?!

  It will be, if you assign the “child” categories as subcategories at your categories page.
  Example:
  Parent category page: https://ananas9.wordpress.com/category/recipes/
  child category page: https://ananas9.wordpress.com/category/recipes/lunch

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 5, 2015 at 9:16 pm

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  When I want to publish a post in a child category, I think it should also be published in the parent category, otherwise that page will be empty?!

  If you assign both the parent and child categories to your posts, the parent category pages will not be empty, but rather will contain posts of each child of that category.

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  ananas9 · Member · Jun 5, 2015 at 9:32 pm

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  If you assign both the parent and child categories to your posts, the parent category pages will not be empty, but rather will contain posts of each child of that category.

  I already figured that out.

  Is that bad for SEO? (Double links?) If so, how can I fix it?