One menu topic is not working

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  mastermusicianblog · Member · Nov 4, 2014 at 11:47 pm

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  My “Music History” menu button is not doing anything. I have 2 blog posts assigned to this button and it does nothing when you click it. Does anyone know why it won’t work?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 4, 2014 at 11:50 pm

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  Every time you publish a post (not a page) it will automatically appear on the dynamic Archives page and the dynamic Categories and sub-categories pages, assuming you have assigned categories and sub-categories to it.

  Technically you can’t post to more than one page on any blog but do read on. Static Pages and dynamic Category Pages are not the same. The former cannot automatically update but the latter do.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  If you want to have pages that do update then they must be replaced by dynamic category pages that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category.

  By default the front page of the blog is the post that displays all posts in your blog. Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize posts by assigning categories to them. You can create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories pages into the custom menu.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  For a step by step approach see here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 4, 2014 at 11:51 pm

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  You need to add that dynamic category page into your custom menu again http://mastermusicianblog.wordpress.com/category/music-history/

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  mastermusicianblog · Member · Nov 5, 2014 at 12:03 am

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  I will try and figure out how to do that. Thanks for your help! =)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2014 at 12:06 am

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  I think this may be just a matter of adding the category page into your custom menu again http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages and then saving the menu.

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  mastermusicianblog · Member · Nov 5, 2014 at 12:10 am

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  I will try and figure out how to do that. Thanks for your help! =)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2014 at 12:11 am

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  You’re welcome and post again if you still need help.

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  mastermusicianblog · Member · Nov 5, 2014 at 12:20 am

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  “Music History” was my default category for any posts that were not assigned. I changed that to a different category and then went in and deleted “Music History” and then re-added it. And it works now! Thanks again for your help! =)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2014 at 12:20 am

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  Hooray! I love happy endings.