How do I make categories/posts static on wordpress?

Pages are pages, there are no categories in WordPress for pages.
Posts have categories.
You are using the wrong thing.

You can make a Page as a parent page and then create pages under it.
(Pages not posts, 2 different editors in WP)
To make a child page in the page editor look at the right sidebar there should be an option to assign a parent page.

Then if you want you can go further and create a template for your pages that only show the page and say menu, nothing else.

Ok, well I'm not bothered about the categories I just want a blank page I could use for a landing page with no tabs or anything then writing on the page and links in the text to the other parts of the site and so on throughout the site.

I'm not sure if this will solve your problem...but there is a plug-in called "Widget Context" which allows you to pick and choose which widgets to place on each page.

If your blog has a sidebar with categories and pages as a widget, then that plug-in could help you solve your problem.

Ok, I have changed my mind on what I want.

I do still want the top bar of Home, About, etc. etc. but I either want the categories on the sidebar to be able to link to those top tabs or be the same as those tabs.

So I want the two options to navigate to the same sources so they can either do it from the top or from the sidebar.

How to do?

WordPress Codex - the Manual
Template Tags « WordPress Codex

specifically:
Function Reference/wp list pages « WordPress Codex
(this should be the code used in your header.php to list/show the Pages)
Put it in the sidebar, too.

You may think I was being lazy by not looking at the codex but the thing is I don't know what all the terms are to search for (in general web design) so it is still a learning curve on that side, which is why I post my queries here, so much obliged .

Sorry, 99% of the "marketer wordpressers" never heard about the Codex + they are reluctant to read it when you give them a link

I'd be happy to help you what to look for when you have a question.

Thanks.

Argh, the code is making my eyes gloss over.

How do I work it? Is the template tags info on how to use the second info you gave (just reading through template tags now)?

Installing plugins is about as 'advanced' as I've got with wp so far .

I have done some simple coding on linux before though so I'm sure I'll get it once I learn the ropes; at least in a rudimentary way which is all I require I imagine.

Is there not a plugin for this?

Plugin for what? To add Pages to the sidebar?
No need - just use the Pages widget (it should be there by default)

Aha! That's just what I was after. Thanks

How do I make it so that each article is on a separate page but is in a subpage of a parent?

I.e. I want the parent to show up on the tabs but the subpages to just be links on the individual page. So an article per page but a tab for categories of pages.

For a while I thought I understood your question. Then you suddenly went somewhere that I couldn't follow...

Be careful with the word 'Pages' (in WP always with capital P!) - it has a special meaning: a different entry type than posts. So when you say "categories of pages"... I am lost because Pages don't have categories, Pages are not part of the chronological stream of the posts, Pages are not to be mixed with posts and categories.

On the other hand, posts can NOT live outside of categories: they always MUST be assigned to at least one category (worse case scenario: WP puts them in 'uncategoriezed" category, LOL).

There is no entry type named "article".
Posts are posts and they can be viewed "under" their category. Posts can be viewed in so-called multi-post view: i.e. category or monthly archives... Or, you can have the "single post view" = when you click on the title/permalink and you see the post content + the comments and comment form.

Pages are quasi-static content and can NOT be viewed as "multi-Page". Only one at a time. And if designed by normal designers they don't have comment form.
However, Pages can be ordered in hierarchical parent-child relationship.

Now try to ask again your question using the proper terminology - it will make the life easier for both of us

That's it dlinden.

So I want a page per article but what I was getting at is I certainly don't want a tab in the header for EVERY page (which is what seems to happen when I've created a new page so far). I just want a tab for the 'parent' (if that is the right term) then links on that page to the individual articles.

So say: Dogs would be the tab in the header and when you click on that on the page you get a list of links: Dog training, dog grooming, Dog cleaning, etc. etc.

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Ok, so I've figured out one way of doing it.

I found a plugin which hides pages on the header: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/

Then I found a plugin to do internal linking: http://www.blograndom.com/blog/extra...-links-plugin/

I may still want them on the sidebar but not sure but for now this gives me more versatility.