Pages and categories?

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  frankvtank · Member · Aug 27, 2012 at 2:52 pm

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  I have a small number of categories that I want to change in to pages, how can I make the changes? Can I move where I have the categories on the blog to where I want the pages? Do I cut / copy past the postings into the new pages?

  Please come back to me this ones driving me crazy!!

  Regards,

  Frankvtank
  Blog url: http://chrismarsdenblog.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Aug 27, 2012 at 2:58 pm

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  Post and Pages are different. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  We can only assign Categories Posts, not to Pages.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

  It’s critical for you to understand that it’s not the static pages that we bloggers create that will update. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ Static pages cannot and will not automatically update. Delete the static pages you created. Then create a custom menu and add the dynamic (continuously updating) Categories pages to it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages

  Here’s a link to a custom menu walkthrough > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/

  There are many common errors, misunderstanding and misconceptions when creating custom menus and you can read about them here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/