Categories and Pages in Wordpress?

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I'm working with the Small Biz Theme for a Realtor client. I've done a bunch of pages for different types of real estate categories like "land" or "residential" or "commercial".

But I would like to have the category (not necessarily WP definition of category) in the menu bar for pages without having to have any content on those pages.

For example, I want the word on the navigation menu for "Residential" and then a drop-down menu with the pages that fit under residential...but no have the "Residential" word actually link to a page.

Or, if the main page categories had to have content, is there an easy way to automate adding links to that page, kind of like Posts and Archives?

Does that make sense? If not, I will do my best to clarify.
#website design #categories #pages #wordpress
  • Not really... but we will try to figure it out.

    1. So, if you are NOT using the WP's native categories - then do NOT use the word categories. In this way, you can avoid a lot of misunderstanding!

    2. Get a theme that has the custom menus feature: everything done after the WP v3.0, released in 2010 should have the Menus feature. If your theme doesn't have it - ask your money back and pay a WP expert to add the menus to your theme.

    3. With the custom Menus you can make a Menu item anything: a Page, a sub-Page*, a post, a (WP) category, post types, external links, your grandma's website... whatever

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    • Yes, I know my use of "categories" is confusing, but just wasn't sure how else to describe the different types of tabs.

      I'm looking into whether this these works with the custom menu. I know they have great support.
  • It makes perfect sense and it's very easy to do.

    Appearance -> Menus

    Next, create a menu.

    Make a custom link called "Residential" and make the URL "#"

    Once it's in the menu, edit the URL and delete the # so it's blank. Poof, magic.

    Then just drop the sub-items under it. Done... Residential will drop down to the sub-items and when clicked, won't do anything.

    (I'm confused as to what parent/child pages have to do with a blank menu item. She said she did not want a page for "Residential" so what purpose would there be to create a Residential page and make that the parent? Time to learn that WP is a toy and not a tool. )
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    • Thanks meatro! You must have been typing at the same time I was.
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    Categories and Pages in Wordpress?

    I'm working with the Small Biz Theme for a Realtor client. I've done a bunch of pages for different types of real estate categories like "land" or "residential" or "commercial". But I would like to have the category (not necessarily WP definition of category) in the menu bar for pages without having to have any content on those pages.