Would like to add catagories to the black menu bar below header theme twenty ten
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I would like to add to menu bar below my header! Can it be done?
Thanks to all that answer! BHThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Yes. We can assign Categories and Tags http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/ only to Posts, not to Pages. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/ Note: http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts
There’s a misconception that many bloggers have with respect to keywords and Tags. In truth these days search engines pay more attention to your keywords in your content than they do to your keywords in Tags/Categories.
There is only one dynamic page for posts in any blog. By default that is the front page of the blog. Thus, the accurate answer to your question is “you can’t post to more than one page on a blog”.
Pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that we bloggers create are static ie. they do not automatically update with new content. Only dynamic pages which are automatically created by the software when we publish a post ie. categories, tags, archives pages will update.
There is only one dynamic page for posts that automatically updates in a blog and all posts will display on that page. There is no way to exclude posts from the main posts (blog) page. By default the front page of the blog will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts 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 pages created by the software into the custom menu. Note that until there is one published post in any category there is nothing that can be displayed on the dynamic categories pages
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menuHere’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/
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Thank you timethief for responding!
I will be clicking those links, but wanted to respond quickly!
The site below has the menu bar that I wish ti mimick, but not with the same catagories.
What I’m trying to do is install nine catagories that can be displayed on the side bar.
New England, Mid Atlantic, and so on.
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You can do that just read what I posted above and comprehend the fact that it’s not the static Pages that bloggers create that will display posts on “Categories” pages in a custom menu. You must assign the Categories to posts and you must add the dynamic Categories pages created by the software to your custom menu.
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