How to categorize posts to fit in proper categories?

  • Resolved jasonpaulweber

    (@jasonpaulweber)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    Relatively new WP addict here. I have a site that’s primarily a blog site.

    I have my custom menu set up like this:
    Home
    About RTN
    National Issues
    Global Issues
    Politics
    Lifestyle
    Humor
    Contact RTN

    Some of these pages (About, Contact) aren’t open for discussion/comments. But the other pages are set up as Blog Excerpts. But herein lies the problem:

    When I click on “Humor“, for instance, posts that weren’t even tagged as humor show up.

    How can I contain it so that on the Humor page, only posts related to humor show up? When I click on the National Issues page, only posts regarding national issues show up?

    Thanks for any guidance anybody can offer!

    Jason

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  • Christine Rondeau

    (@crondeau)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    You mentioned that you set up a custom menu.

    The links, global issues, lifestyle, humour are category links right? Not pages.

    You mentioned tags, but tags are different from categories.

    If you have a post and categorize it as humour, it should show up only in the humour category, provided that your link is a category link.

    Thread Starter jasonpaulweber

    (@jasonpaulweber)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Christine. The menu links (global issues, lifestyle, humor, etc.) are set up a Pages. The site is http://www.realtruthnow.org …

    Should I set it up as a Menu category instead of a page? I see how to do this. Is this what you’d recommend, Christine?

    Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my question!

    Jason

    Christine Rondeau

    (@crondeau)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    On your site, I can see at the bottom in the first widget ara, a drop down with categories.
    I think that these should be tags and your pages, politics, lifestyle, humor (top nav) should be categories. That way you can then used these in your nav bar.

    When planning your taxonomy (categories and tags) I like to think of these as menu items.

    Categories: Breakfast, lunch ,dinner
    Tags: Soups, sandwiches, pasta, fish, chicken etc….

    Thread Starter jasonpaulweber

    (@jasonpaulweber)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Ahh … okay, Christine … I understand. Yes, I see now that I made “national issues” a category, only posts tagged as “national issues” show up — which is what I want.

    I’m not new to programming. I was primarily into asp.net and SEO, but now I’m switching 3 of my blogs over to WordPress, because it’s so powerful, user-friendly, and there is so much more support.

    Thank you for your help, and again, thanks for taking the time to respond to my issue!

    Jason

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