why do all my posts appear on a page when not chosen

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  kmahss · Member · Feb 1, 2015 at 2:01 pm

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  Whenever I post I choose a category……but the post also appears on a test page that I’d created when I set up the blog……..I want to use this test page as a static page for something else

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2015 at 5:48 pm

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  Hello there,
  There are many misunderstandings and misconceptions when it comes to custom menus. I suggest you read these two posts I link to below.
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/posts-on-pages/
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

  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 dynamic category pages (and sub-category pages) that will automatically update every time you publish a post assigned to the relevant category and/or sub-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 and sub-categories pages into the custom menu, and order them as you wish.

  First you add categories to Posts.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

  Then you create a custom menu.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  And you add the dynamic category pages into it
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages

  Until you actually assign categories to relevant posts the dynamic category pages will have no data that can be displayed on them.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages

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  kmahss · Member · Feb 2, 2015 at 12:51 pm

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  let me refine my question a little better…..I don’t want the page TEST on my blog…..I think I accidently created it when I was beginning to build my blog….can I or how do I delete it?…….I’ve been reluctant because all my posts are on there even though I already have them posted in categories…..and in categories is where I want them…..thanks