Categories and Menu

OK, the first thing I would do is change your permalinks. Permalinks are the internet addresses that your visitors see. For example, instead of the address for your Finance page looking like this:

https://www.aboutthegoodstuff.com/?page_id=250

it would look like this:

https://www.aboutthegoodstuff.com/finance

And instead of a listing of your Baking recipes looking like this:

https://www.aboutthegoodstuff.com/?cat=4

it will look like this:

https://www.aboutthegoodstuff.com/category/baking

You can change your permalink style by going to Settings → Permalinks from the admin dashboard. Day and name is probably the most commonly used setting.

OK, so from what I understand, you would like your Baking recipes to display when a visitor clicks the Baking menu item. One of the problems is that you currently have a page called Baking, so you won’t be able to list them on that page unless you want to create a special index template in your child theme. What I would do is move the contents of that page to a post called Apple Pie (since it seems to be a single recipe for Apple Pie). Then read this tutorial to create a Category Menu Item to display a list of your Baking posts:

How to create a Category Menu Item

Thanks for your reply crouching bruin.
The permalink is sorted out. Except I don’t know why finance keeps changing to Finance -2 automatically

I have created a new post for Apple pic.

I have tried what the link “How to create a Category Menu Item” says.
And nothing happens.

I just want all the three baking recipes to show under Baking

That is
Apple pie
Blue Berry and Banana Cake
Simple orange sponge Cake

All Finance topic under the Finance Menu

All Home Décor relate items under Home Décor and

All vegetarian or vegan Items under Cooking

Hello vmmarks2014! Seems we have the same problem with categories and tags… Have you find a solution? that is so annoying… Thanks!

green papaya , no, I haven’t figured it out yet.

@vmmarks2014, sorry, I didn’t get an e-mail notification after your reply last week, so I didn’t know that you had responded.

Your permalinks look fine. The reason why you may be getting Finance-2 for that one page is that you might have another page with the title Finance that you previously created. Have you tried editing the permalink when you go edit the current Finance page?

I’m surprised creating a category menu didn’t work. So you went to Appearance → Menus, checked off the Baking item in the Categories section, clicked the Add to Menu button, then moved the new category menu item to the spot where you wanted it to appear, and saved the menu?

I guess I should also ask if you’ve set the “location” for your custom menu. That is, when you click the Manage Locations tab, you set the Primary Menu to your custom menu.

Crouching Bruin,

Thanks again for coming to the rescue, I don’t know where the fiancé page is either in the parent theme or the other child theme I created, so since I could not find it, I renamed the one I have right now a little different.

Setting the change to primary menu did it, also I was able to go to categories and change some names and add to the menu pages and try to get it more streamlined.

Please have a look at it and see if I can change it better.

Thanks a Ton