Moving unwanted menu items into a sub-menu

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  kajauthor · Member · Mar 16, 2012 at 9:22 pm

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  Four catergories have appeared on the menu bar I just created. How can I move them down to be sub-menus?
  Help, please.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 16, 2012 at 9:50 pm

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  Categories do not just appear out of the blue. They first have to be assigned to posts, not pages. When we publish a post the software automatically displays the post on the main page for posts, and in the Archives and Categories and Tags pages. We do not create those pages – the software does.

  Pages are static. They sit outside of the blog structure and you cannot post to multiple pages in any blog. There is only one main page for posts in a blog and all posts will show on the main blog page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page.

  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 posts by assigning categories to them. You can either put the categories widget into the sidebar, or you can create a custom menu and add the categories pages the software creates into the custom menu.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-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 Tags 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.