Using categories as pages
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Hello,
I have a wordpress.com blog and am trying to create various pages on my site such as “News,” “Featured,” etc. However, whenever I try and use tags/categories to link the pages I am unable to do so. So when I write a post and use the “Feature” category it doesn’t appear in the feature page.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Static pages like these ones
Arts & Review
Featured
News
Opinion
Quick Flicks
Sports
cannot automatically update. Only dynamic category pages, archives pages and tags pages will automatically update.Create a custom menu and add the dynamic categories pages into it. Then every post you assign the categories to will automatically appear under the relevant category page after the post is published.
Creating a Custom Menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
Adding dynamic Category Pages
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
Changing the Order & Creating Sub-Menus http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusIf you want a step by step approach with lots of explanation then see here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/
There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well.
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In addition to what Timethief has posted and for further information,
See here for a brief Youtube tutorial on how to turn categories into pages.
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