How to create a header menu and put posts in pages

  • Hey guys, I’m kind of new to website creation and I need some help. I want to create a header menu and put my latest posts in the specific pages. For example, In my header menu I want the following pages Home, News, Videos,and etc. Then I want to create posts and place these posts under the correct page. So I would want to create a news post then place it under the news page on the homepage header menu. I’ve created a category menu for my homepage header menu so I can categorize my posts to appear under the category I want. So my news post goes under the News category on the header menu on the homepage. However, whenever I click on a category on the header menu it directs me to https://www.example.com/category/news and the title of the page is “Category: News” not just news. The posts to show up under the category but I don’t want the url to be “www.example.com/category/news” I want it to be just “www.example.com/news.” I think the only way to achieve this is to make a homepage header menu consisting of Pages not Categories. However, I have no idea how to make my Pages show my posts. Any help would be great and once again I’m new to website creation so if I couldn’t explain my situation/problem properly, I’m sorry.

    Thank you very much

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  • Good Morning tedret8,

    I hope your having fun overall learning WordPress!

    To answer your question about category/news, the easiest method I’ve found so far was following this post. Here’s the basics though!

    1. Head over to your WP-Admin Dashboard
    2. Go to Settings > Permalinks
    3. Change your custom settings to: /%category%/%postname%/
    4. Change your category base under optional to .

    That should answer your needs for now. Otherwise I would suggest checking the plugins repository that does something along the same lines, or search for one that inserts post categories into pages!

    Have fun and hope this helps!
    -Kevin

    Thread Starter tedret8

    (@tedret8)

    Hey Kevin, I just wanted to thank you for linking me that post and explaining it yourself. It worked out great, thank you so much! ??

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