Title: Using Tabs for Category Navigation – CSS or differ
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Using Tabs for Category Navigation – CSS or differ

 *  [robgreeley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robgreeley/)
 * (@robgreeley)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-tabs-for-category-navigation-css-or-differ/)
 * Hi – A general architecture question from someone who is just getting started
   with their site.
    I would like an overall site architecture which uses tabs to
   navigate between different areas – ie different categories. I can think of two
   ways to do this: 1) use sub folders off my site, and place a copy of the index.
   php file in each sub folder. Add tabs to the CSS or the index.php files and link
   them together so that one can navigate to each area. I would then have to turn
   off the category navigation and restrict the loop in each index.php file to show
   only one category. This would have the benefits of showing the categories in 
   the URI. 2) Use the CSS /modify index.php to display the list of categories as
   a set of tabs. The first solution would seem to be more straightforward, with
   a better solution for showing the categories in the URL links. The second solution
   seems to be more elegant, and probably better long term. Does anyone have a recommendation
   on which path to take? Is there experience here? Does anyone have a CSS which
   shows tab navigation for categories and which I can use as an example? If I follow
   the second path, I am worried about how I could show permalinks including the
   category (ie [http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/month/postid](http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/month/postid)
   Is this possible with a hack? Has anyone done it? Thanks for your advice.

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 *  [zach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zach/)
 * (@zach)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-tabs-for-category-navigation-css-or-differ/#post-84543)
 * I know this is an old post but I have this exact same question right now. Anybody
   have the best way to do this?
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-tabs-for-category-navigation-css-or-differ/#post-84550)
 * I’d also like advice on this issue — multiple pages for each category as opposed
   to a single page with tabbed category navigation. I’m having trouble finding 
   ways to deal with unique CSS by category when there’s multiple categories (something
   I can avoid with a unique page for each major section)…
    Any elegant solutions
   already out there?

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