Pages, Posts, and Menu Items

bydkral

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11 years ago

Hi! I just wanted to share something with you that I learned somewhere along the way but wasn't taught in our beginning lessons here and maybe should be.

The only time you should create a page is when you want to have content show up as a menu item, such as your About Me and Privacy Policy pages. The majority of your content should be in your posts, and you should create a category for each post.

For most of your menu items, you will want to create Custom Links. These are menu items that will either simply exist as drop down menus or will link to a page (that you will actually not even need to create because it will create itself) that contains all of the posts you write that have the same category.

To create Custom Links in your menu that will simply be drop down items in your menu, first you will need to go to your Dashboard. Then click on Appearance and then on Menus. To the left of the Menu Structure, look for where it says Custom Links and click that. Where it says URL, type #. And for Link Text, type whatever you want the drop down menu title to say.

To create a Custom Link that links to all the posts of a specific category, you will again click on Custom Links, but this time where it says URL, you will type http://thenameofyourwebsite.com/category/the-name-of-the-category. (Make sure you actually put - in between all the words if the category is more than one word.) For Link Text, type the name of the category. This will then be a menu item that links to all the posts of that category.