How to Attach Categories To Your Menus On Wordpress
Over the past couple of weeks, I have not been on WA much. But I have been working on building my website. My niche is games, crafts and activities for kids and last week I was exploring ways to attract my target audience, which is parents of preschoolers and younger children.
Five months ago (in September) I spent three hours trying to figure out how to attach certain categories to different menu items, but attaching a wordpress page was as close as I could get. Last week, while my main goal was simply to optimize my website for the search engines, I "accidentally" discovered how to do exactly what I spent so much time trying to do in September. I was pleased, but also somewhat annoyed with myself at how easy it was. I had a very hard time figuring out how to do this by goggling tutorials as they were often very confusing.
If you are like me, you want each menu item to take your reader to all the blog posts that are in only certain categories. For example, I wanted all my craft posts to show up when a visitor clicked on the menu item called "Crafts."
So even though I can not take screen shots with my computer for this post, I am going to give a short overview about how I did it. But keep in mind that some Wordpress layouts work a little bit differently. So without screen shots, I hope this makes sense...
1. On your Dashboard under Appearance, click on the Menus button.
2. Give your menu a name; I called mine "main."
3. In the side bar, you will see the option to add either Pages, Links or Categories to your menu. Click on the down arrow for the categories section and add whichever type of posts you want your menu item to bring up.
4. Now make sure that each of your blog posts are placed in the relevant category.
I feel silly that I did not figure this out sooner, but hey, it is a funny story when you think about it. Especially since this is such a basic task. But I like the way it makes my website feel more professional. You can also add "sub- menus" by dragging the menu item to the side a little bit.
Let me know if you figure it out. And if you figured this out a long time ago, feel free to sacarstically applaud me and my new found talent. Lol.
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Funny, I just found your post after I just spent 4 hours trying to figure this out when I stumbled on this simple video. I too felt silly on how easy it was. Here is a video for anyone looking for an easy way as well.
https://youtu.be/tvwWbrjYlkI
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Battling with that for hours on end and yet....so darn simple!!!
Hi, Merissa, Thanks you for helping me with categories I am only new to wealthy affiliate I am finding it hard to do my site. Thanks wendy
Hi Merissa thanks a lot but do you know how to place posts into the page blogs without making a sug-menu
Hi Merissawrite, I can not think you enough for this article. i too have spent many hours trying to figure out how to get my categories on my menu and see that the answer has been in my face the whole time. I insist that you stay awesome and thanks once more!
Wow, guys. Your welcome. I thought I was the only one who could not figure out how to do this. Were you all able to figure it out, okay?
Merissa, you are a lifesaver. I, too, have spent hours trying to get Categories figured out and could find no tutorial on it. So thank you so much for your time and help!
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