Title: Understanding navigation options
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Understanding navigation options

 *  [VitualBob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitualbob/)
 * (@vitualbob)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-navigation-options/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m new to WordPress and I’m just fiddling round with a basic install. I see 
   the classic top-level menu can be linked to Categories but how do you deal with
   sub-categories? For example, if you have a top-level menu item called “Technology”
   and have over 100 posts under this category how can you create different subcategories(
   say 4-6) or link common topics together? Is this possible?
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [VitualBob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitualbob/)
 * (@vitualbob)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-navigation-options/#post-2125073)
 * This is also an example of submenus or subcategories I’m interested in:
    /categories/
   computers_technology/office_networking/index.html
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-navigation-options/#post-2125078)
 * That depends upon your theme.
 *  Thread Starter [VitualBob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitualbob/)
 * (@vitualbob)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-navigation-options/#post-2125084)
 * Oh OK – so its built into the Theme template or Dashboard?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-navigation-options/#post-2125097)
 * The theme.
 *  [ixwa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ixwa/)
 * (@ixwa)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-navigation-options/#post-2125102)
 * Yeah, and having just spent a week working very hard on this precise problem,
   just be warned that if you end up combining more than just categories and subcategories,
   but start using individual posts and pages for submenus etc, it can get really
   tricky.
 * I ended up ditching the whole concept of using WP’s categories to drive a menu(
   which became a headache), and instead started working on a conditional, pages
   only version (and child pages). (Not using WP’s menu builder)
 * Now I only use categories essentially as database tables, so that info can still
   be entered using WP’s dashboard, but the site is driven by its own logic.
 * …that is, unless somebody has a better idea!
 * This is info I found that helped my decision (notice how everyone asks about 
   categories…it’s really difficult):
    [http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/02/12/creating-two-tiered-conditional-navigation-in-wordpress/](http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/02/12/creating-two-tiered-conditional-navigation-in-wordpress/)
 *  Thread Starter [VitualBob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitualbob/)
 * (@vitualbob)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-navigation-options/#post-2125153)
 * Thanks – that’s very informative. I’ll look into it.

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