Post categories linked to menu items

  • Resolved rayarasmussen

    (@rayarasmussen)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m new to web design and wordpress although I’ve been using computers for 30 years and have worked with tons of software over the years as a user.

    For several days I’ve been trying to figure out how to connect my posted, categorized articles to the appropriate pages which are each linked to a menu item. The menu is working fine, taking me to the appropriate pages, but I just can’t figure out how to connect a post once categorized to the appropriate, matching page.

    I’m sure I’m missing something really simple.

    Thanks for your help

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  • Dan Hauk

    (@danhauk)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    It sounds like the menu items are category pages, is this right? For example, the page linked to the menu item is something like domain.com/category/my_category/. You can also check if the menu items are category pages by visiting Appearance > Menus, and it will say “Category” on the right side of the menu item. Check out this screenshot to see what I mean

    If this is the menu structure you have, then connecting posts to one of those pages is just a matter of choosing the right category for your posts.

    • Go to Posts in your Dashboard
    • Click “Quick Edit” in the list of links that appears when you hover over the post
    • Select the appropriate category
    • Click “Update” to save

    When you visit the category page, that post should now show up.

    Thread Starter rayarasmussen

    (@rayarasmussen)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hello Dan,

    I believe so. I started by creating the pages and then, in the menu tool, I selected the pages and added them to the menu. That part was very straight-forward.

    The link you provided isn’t working for me but I do understand what you’re saying. All my posts are categorized using one or more of the categories listed with each post. That all makes a lot of sense to me. When I go to the page, nothing shows. for some reason, the categories in the posts are not linked to the category pages. I can see pages and click on them using the menu. It sure seems to me that any post categorized should show on that category page.

    I figure I’m just missing something, not sure what.

    Thanks for your help,

    Ray

    Dan Hauk

    (@danhauk)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Ray,

    Do you have a link you can provide to the category page?

    When you added the category pages to your menu, did you select Pages (that you created from your Dashboard > Pages), or did you select Categories from the box on the left of the screen (hopefully this screenshot link works for you) under Appearance > Menus? It sounds like you selected from the Pages section instead of Categories.

    If you select categories from the “Categories” dropdown rather than a page you created, those will hook into the categories in the posts.

    Does this make sense?

    Thread Starter rayarasmussen

    (@rayarasmussen)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Dan,

    That was it! I knew it was something simple. Thanks very much.

    Ray

    Dan Hauk

    (@danhauk)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Glad I could help!

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