Title: adding posts to additional pages Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # adding posts to additional pages * [nhpublisher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhpublisher/) * (@nhpublisher) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/) * I am new to wordpress. (I have always used ftp file to folder for nearly 20 years.) I am attempting to figure this out on my own site hosted by a virtual host. * My question(s) is this. I would like to add 4 pages. I know how to make the front page static. On each of these additional 4 pages, I would like to add posts. Currently I only see that you can have one page with posts. * I named a page “tidbits,” developed a category “tidbits” and thought my post using that category would “flow” to that page. That did not happen. * Is it possible to name a page “tidbits,” develop a category “tidbits” and get post to appear on that page. * At the same time is it possible to develop a page “book,” develop a category “ book” and get post to appear on that page, while having the “tidbits” page operate and do that with 2 additional pages. * Hope that gives the proper information Thank you in advance! Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817501) * Yes, you just need to create a custom menu and add category menu items – see: [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide) * Thread Starter [nhpublisher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhpublisher/) * (@nhpublisher) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817502) * Thank you – will let you know! * Thread Starter [nhpublisher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhpublisher/) * (@nhpublisher) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817702) * I posted a menu item, “legacy” and pulled in a page called “family” but when I viewed it showed the family page and not the legacy menu header * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817703) * Link to the site? Also note that categories don’t apply to pages (only to posts). * Thread Starter [nhpublisher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhpublisher/) * (@nhpublisher) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817704) * I dummied up similar to what I thought as follows. [http://leejohndrow.com](http://leejohndrow.com) I made a family 1 page that I entered into a Legacy 1 menu, similar to what I described. My final thought was I would be able to have a “Legacy”menu, with a family page in it. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817705) * I think maybe you are confusing “menu” with “menu items” – you can only create 1 menu in twentytwelve – and then drag/drop the menu items into the places you like in the box on the right side of the menu screen. * Did you set up a custom menu? * Thread Starter [nhpublisher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhpublisher/) * (@nhpublisher) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817707) * I did-OK I just played with it to see what happens. I see what you are saying. * So lets go back to my original thinking. My original goal was to have a couple of topics at top like Blog 1 and Blog 2 and have a post go to one or the other. * The second part was to have something like legacy that had a page (not necessarily a blog page) like family 1 and family 2(though maybe one could be.) * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817708) * Yes, that’s done via a custom menu – it allows you to control what shows up in the menu and where. Is that not working? * Thread Starter [nhpublisher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhpublisher/) * (@nhpublisher) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817710) * OK- I think we have it right for that part. Is there a way to get a post to go to a page other than what I have labeled “BLOG”? * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817711) * Yes, first create the categories you want – then assign the catogory to the posts yo want. Then make category menu items (not pages) – in the left column of the menu screen, towards the bottom, see the box Categories – check on the categories you want menu items for – and click add to menu – they’ll show up on the right side box – drag/drop all those menu items into any configuration you want. * Or am I missing what you’re asking about? * Thread Starter [nhpublisher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhpublisher/) * (@nhpublisher) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817714) * here is what I have done. I made a post, titled, “trying this 123”. Now, I followed what you said. I developed a category menu item, “Friends” (I do have a page call “friends”.) I guess I thought making the post would have it show up on the“ Friends” page from top. I see that it shows up under categories on the right hand side. So I guess that is how it “works” which is OK. (I thought it would develop its on “page” of sorts with additional posts. * BUT the post still shows up under “BLOG”. Is there a way to avoid that? * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817715) * Posts don’t show up on “Pages” Well, you CAN do that, but it involves quite a bit of custom coding – you have to create a page template that incorporates getting the posts you want… * Also, you may not want to use the same name for a category and a page – I think that gets messy with permalinks if you do that – and you can see that WP is appending a number to those items as is (in the URL’s). * If you only want some posts to show up under “blog” – you’ll need to make that a category item – and assign those posts to it. * Thread Starter [nhpublisher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhpublisher/) * (@nhpublisher) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-posts-to-additional-pages/#post-3817716) * Thanks! I really appreciate your help. * Ok-we will skip the coding for now. 🙂 I changed the categories. Thanks for that thought. * I developed a category, “blogposts” and applied it to 3 of 4 posts, yet all 4 posts post to Blog. Thought? * Thanks! 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