website menu issue
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Hi,
I am in the process of starting a blog and I have many different menu options and categories like Health, College, Career, etc. and I want to write different blogs under each category but it looks like my posts page is only under one category when I want to control which post goes under which category. How do i do that? -
Hi there,
To clarify, this is a bit of a chicken vs. egg problem. i.e. it’s not possible to create the “category pages” first, before you have actually created the blog posts (and categorized them) on your site.
With this in mind, please set up one sample blog post on your site per category, and then publish. You can add categories to our posts by following the steps here: https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/
When you create the blog posts and publish them, WordPress actually creates the ‘category pages’ for you automatically. Once you have published all the posts (one per category) you can set up your menu and add those categories to your menu by following the steps here: https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/#category-pages-menus
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.
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Hi,
Okay that makes sense. But since I made them categories now, when I open the “health and fitness” page, it says Category Archives: Health and Fitness at the top of the page and is there any way to get rid of that? -
Hi there,
This is on https://onepercentgains.wordpress.com/, correct?
It looks like you figured this out – the category pages for your Health, Foodies and Blogs pages are all now showing the posts you’ve assigned to those categories.
Just to clarify a bit – technically you can create a category from site settings, add the category to your menu, and only then start adding posts to it. But it’s much simpler to create new categories from inside the editor itself, and then assign the category to the post at the same time.
What is not possible is adding a category page to the menu before the category itself exists. So you need to either declare the category in settings, or create it from inside the editor, before you can add it to the menu. And if you do the former, the category archive page will be empty until you assign a post to that category.
Let us know if you still have any questions about this :)
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Yeah, I figured out the first part, but I’m confused how to get rid of the category archives at the top of the page. I made a category with a post I have, but it still hasn’t gone away.
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Do you mean the actual text “Category archives:”?
That is the page title the WordPress software generates automatically for any category archive page. You’ll find similar headings on author and tag archive pages, and on search result pages.
The only way to remove that is using custom CSS code on our premium plan.
The code to do that will be fairly simple, so if you decide to upgrade, let us know and we can help with that.
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