Title: Category / Menu
Last modified: October 10, 2018

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# Category / Menu

 *  [jamescross8686](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamescross8686/)
 * (@jamescross8686)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-menu-help-2/)
 * Hi all,
 * New to WordPress, I created a category, for our children’s book reviews, and 
   created a post and gave it that category.
 * I then went to Menus and added the category to the menu, so it appeared on the
   main site navigation menu on the site.
 * However when you click that link on the menu it shows posts in all categories.
 * I tried setting up another category for our YA Books, did a test post and that
   appears in the children’s, ya and blog section.
 * How wrong have I got all of this?
 * Argh!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcategory-menu-help-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Santiago](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjaure/)
 * (@sjaure)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-menu-help-2/#post-10765371)
 * Hi James,
    Hope you are doing well.
 * The approach that you described is correct and the expected bahavior would be
   to see a list of the posts on that category only.
 * Just to be totally sure, can you confirm from the post edit screen in the right
   sidebar that only the right category/categories are checked for the post?
    [http://wpsites.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Category-Module.png](http://wpsites.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Category-Module.png)
 * If that is correctly set, then you may have some plugin or custom code messing
   with the main WP query.
    I’d recommend disabling all the plugins and switching
   to a default WP theme. If this solves the problem, then you can switch back to
   your theme and enable plugins one by one while testing until you spot the offending
   plugin.
 * Please let me know if that works for you.
    Cheers!
 *  Thread Starter [jamescross8686](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamescross8686/)
 * (@jamescross8686)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-menu-help-2/#post-10765380)
 * Thanks, it is good to know that what I did should work. It’s not my site, so 
   I will have to talk to my boss before I do anything that I’m shaky on the technicalities
   of a website she paid to have built…
 *  [Santiago](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjaure/)
 * (@sjaure)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-menu-help-2/#post-10765402)
 * I’d suggest you to reach the person that was paid to biuld the site. This is 
   expected to work, so this is a bug that they should fix. 🙂
 * Take care!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Santiago](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjaure/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-menu-help-2/#post-10765402)
 * Status: not resolved

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