How to make a Blog menu which shows ALL Categories?

Use custom menu features. i hope that it will help you.

ADMIN->APPEARANCE->MENU and Create the menu.

Create a page “Blog” with blank content. Now go to Settings->Readings section

Front page displays : A Static Page
1. Front Page “Home”
2. Posts Page “Blog”

Best of luck.

Chip,

Not sure if you are still looking for a solution – but in case anyone else is…

I spent half an hour looking for an easier way, but couldn’t find one. So in the end I found the easiest way is;

• Create a custom template that lists posts (I called it ‘List Posts’)
• create a page using that template
• add that page to your menu

As an added bonus this method allows you to put a heading and some text above the list of posts (in case you want to preface them with a general statement).

To help out here is the code for the template I made;

<?php
/*
Template Name: Post List
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>
	<?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div id="content">
<h1><?php the_title();?></h1>
<?php the_content();?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div id="post_list">
    <?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts(''); ?>
	<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <div class="post_repeater">
	<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
	<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">> read more</a></p>
    </div>
	<?php endwhile; else: endif; ?>
</div><!-- end post_list div -->
<div class="navigation"><p><?php posts_nav_link(); ?></p></div>

<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div><!-- end content div -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Hope that helps you or someone else.

Cheers,

Adam.