How to Add Categories to Your Main Menu
It's time for your daily dose of Wordpress Wisdom! In today's tutorial I cover how to add categories to your main menu. In our main menu we have certain go-to items and if you're wanting your audience to be able to find your posts easily by category, then adding categories to your main menu is an easy way to do it and I'll show you exactly how.
Related Training
Want to learn how to add a drop down menu to your main menu, allowing you to add much more to it and save space? Check out the tutorial below:
How to Add a Drop Down Menu to Your Menu in Wordpress
And if you want to quickly assign categories to previously published content or quickly change a post's category, here's how to do so using Quick Edit:
How to Use the Quick Edit Feature in Your Wordpress Back Office
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See you next time!
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I've watched this helpful video a few times (every time I forget how to add categories). Thanks!
I was wondering ... can a post belong to more than one category? It seems so, because I have to uncheck "uncategorized" whenever I add a post to a category I have created.
If you don't know off the top of your head, I can experiment :)
Hello, great instructions. Thank you. In my case I have to go back to already published content to put each into categories as I did not know each needed to be categorized. I have 16 posts/pages on my newer site and I had already set up menus and moved each post into the corresponding part of the menu. I still cannot figure out how to go back and put each of those posts (that are marked Uncategorized) into a specifically named category.
I followed your instructions and can create categories to go into the menu line, but don't know how to link that to an actual article.
I appreciate any additional help.
Thanks!
Bob
From your WP back office, just go to the post editor, hover over any post and click "Quick Edit". You'll be able to instantly assign that post to a category. Once it's assigned a category it's automatically placed in that category page 👍🏼
I made it easy for you and created a tutorial on how to do this using Quick Edit 👍🏼 How to Use the Quick Edit Feature in Your Wordpress Back Office
Wow--very easy to follow. And now all of my posts are assigned to a Category.
Thank you so much!
Awesome as always, so if i have affiliate marketing as a category, that is gong to be 6 plus pages, can I have like a widget on the side bar or somewhere for my little like sub categories like Email Marketing, Social Media, Psyhology in AM etc.?
scrolling through 6pages? I don't even want to do that lol :-)
thanks
For lots of content, use a drop down. That's why I added the link to that training in the description above. Saw you coming a mile away, Kerri 😎👍🏼
lol :-) so I'm not only forgetful, but I apparently can't see a big old blue link either :-) Although I'm probably missing this too, I thought a drop-down with a lot of posts on it would not be a good user experience. Ill go back to class, thanks.
For anyone who likes to do things backward or the hard way ( ME!).
I figured out that after you create the category and the sub-categories .. they are EMPTY until you go and change your categories on your posts to match, then walah there they are. LOL Just a little tid bit if anyone else is a wonky as me and just can't seem to do things the easy way :-)
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Hi! Just on to categorize my posts. But shall I name them with numbers as you do in the tutorial 1,2,3 etc..or shall I name them with my menynames or such? Maybe a stupid question but I'm too old and happily naive to think that any question is stupid ;D
Karin
Right, the “Category 1”, “Category 2” are just for the sake of the tutorial, you want to name your categories with the actual category names so your audience can find the relevant content they’re looking for.