As a blogger, it’s common to include categories in your menu so that readers can view posts for a specific topic on your blog. This guide will show you how to add links to your category pages to a menu.
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Add a category to your menu, so your visitors can easily navigate to specific categories of posts on your site. In this section, you will learn how to add the categories you created to your menu.
Your site’s theme type determines which instructions to follow. Go to Appearance in your site’s dashboard: if you see Editor, follow the Site Editor tab instructions. Otherwise, follow the WP Admin or Customizer tab instructions.
In the Site Editor, your menu comes from the Navigation block. Follow these steps to add a category menu item:
- Visit your site’s dashboard.
- Navigate to Appearance → Editor.
- Select the Template or Template Part you want to edit, or click on the site preview on the right side of the screen to open the homepage editor.
- Open List View in the top-left corner of your screen (it’s the icon that looks like three horizontal lines above each other.)
- Select the Navigation block, which may be nested inside other blocks like Header, Group, and Row.
- Click the “+ Block Inserter” icon that now appears on the Navigation block.
- Search for the name of your category and choose it from the list. The category label will appear next to the category name in the search result.
- After adding a category to the menu, you can:
- click on the text to customize what it says if needed.
- reorder the menu items, create dropdown menus, and do much more with the Navigation block.
- Click the “Save” button to save your changes.
When visitors click on the category in your menu, they will be taken to a page that only shows posts with that category.
