new menu on top bar to go to a new page

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  justjennthingsblog · Member · Feb 18, 2017 at 10:06 pm

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  I want to make a page full of posts dedicated to photos ONLY and title it adventures but I can’t seem to get the page to let me make individual posts at a time. And I tried just making a post and selecting it to be featured on ‘adventures’ but then it shows up on the home page and the adventures page. I’m not sure how to correct this problem.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 18, 2017 at 10:07 pm

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  Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one at https://wordpress.com/themes/libretto/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://librettodemo.wordpress.com/

  Posts and Pages are very different. Category pages created by the software when we assign categories to posts are also not the same as static pages we create.

  You begin by assigning categories to your posts.

  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/

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  marklchaves · Member · Feb 18, 2017 at 11:04 pm

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  Hi Jenn,

  Here is one way to do what you are asking. Give it a try.

  Add an ‘adventures’ category (Posts)

  1. Edit your post.
  2. Select Categories & Tags.
  3. Click Add New Category.
  4. Name your new category ‘adventures’.
  5. Hit Update.

  Customize your top (main) menu.

  1. Go to Customize > Menus > Add Items > Categories
  2. Select the ‘adventures’ category that you created earlier.
  3. Hit Save.
  4. View your home page.
  5. You should see it now.

  I have an example on my site. My home page is a static page. But my top menu has a link to my Digital Media posts (just one so far).

  https://marklchaves.wordpress.com/category/digital-media/

  enjoy,
  mark

  p.s. be sure to read up on pages versus posts (see @timethief’s reply).