Title: Category Parent not “saving”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Category Parent not “saving”

 *  [timothyclo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timothyclo/)
 * (@timothyclo)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-not-saving/)
 * I’m assuming that I can associate Categories with Pages. I see the pages listed
   in the Category Parent drop-down list, but when I select it and “Update Category”
   it is not being saved. It keeps reverting to the default “none.”
 * I just set-up the blog [`http://thedailyvinyl.com/blog/`](http://thedailyvinyl.com/blog/)
   
   And the home page looks fine, but when one of the Page titles is clicked (i.e.“
   Vinyl Videos”) it should bring up the post that I saved in the “Vinyl Video” 
   Category.
 * But it’s not. Thanks in advance for your help.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-not-saving/#post-1127543)
 * Posts are directly associated with Categories. Not Pages. It may see like a minor
   distinction but it’s an important one. You can use a custom page template to 
   list posts within a certain category but your theme obviously doesn’t do that“
   out of the box”. You’d need to create the custom template yourself.
 * See [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#A_Page_of_Posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#A_Page_of_Posts)
 *  Thread Starter [timothyclo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timothyclo/)
 * (@timothyclo)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-not-saving/#post-1127564)
 * Thanks esmi. I’ll take a look at that. I was hoping the relationship was Posts
   associated with Categories and Categories associated with Pages… but not so, 
   eh?
 *  Thread Starter [timothyclo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timothyclo/)
 * (@timothyclo)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-not-saving/#post-1127686)
 * Ok… so can I ask this question… WHAT GOOD IS A “PAGE” on a Blog, if nothing automatically
   appears on it? Is there a way to put Categories where the page menu bar is?
 *  [ryans149](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryans149/)
 * (@ryans149)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-not-saving/#post-1127709)
 * Pages are used to display static information on your blog, like About Us, or 
   Contact Us (this is just an example). Some information that never change and 
   remains same for all your posts/categories.
 *  Thread Starter [timothyclo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timothyclo/)
 * (@timothyclo)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-not-saving/#post-1127753)
 * Hmmm. Ok, thanks ryans149.
 * Esmi, I made the pageofposts.php file and uploaded it into the wp-admin/ folder.
   Is this the right place? How do I get the WordPress to recognize that fle? It
   didn’t seem to have any effect. (In the short-term, I just decided to remove 
   the Pages.) Thanks again!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-not-saving/#post-1127764)
 * You create a new page with a title of your choosing and assign your new ‘page
   of posts’ template to it.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-parent-not-saving/#post-1127764)
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