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  dmaron69 · Member · Mar 20, 2016 at 9:30 am

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  My blog focuses on resiliency, specifically dealing with how a lack of personal resilliency has a negative impact on peoples lives. In addition to my blog posts, I want my site to have page tabs on the top of the site that users can click and find articles and quizes that they can use as resources. For example I created a parent tab and under that tab I want users to be able to see 15 articles from experts that I found, a parenting quiz on resilience, etc. I can’t seem to figure out how to add each document, i.e. article, quiz, and make them a separate item. Right now my parenting page only allows me to post one article. I hope I am making sense. my blog is http://www.resiliencynowblog.com

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2016 at 5:36 pm

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  I want my site to have page tabs on the top of the site that users can click and find articles and quizes that they can use as resources.

  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 you create and designate as a front 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 and category sub-pages 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 in the order that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes like About, Copyright, Contact Info, etc. , not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages for static content that rarely changes 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 in the order that you wish them that you wish them to appear in https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/