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Hi, so I’m trying to understand how MENU and CATEGORY relate to each other. I created 8 categories, and then I created a page I want to appear under one of the categories.
I know it won’t work because there isn’t any option to point it there so I guess what I’m asking is > what is the purpose of a menu if I can’t place content under its links?
You can tell how hopelessly confused I am sigh. Category . . . Menu . . . Page . . . The only feature I understand are Posts.
This is for a blog I’m starting on the free .ORG site.
Really the entire purpose of a WordPress Menu escapes me. How are people using it?
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There is no relationship between menus and categories.
Categories are assigned to post types like Pages, Posts, etc.
Menus are just… menus. A <ul> list made up a links to posts, custom URLs, category archive URLs, etc.
*”what is the purpose of a menu if I can’t place content under its links?”* – what do you mean by “content”?
Oh boy…where to start. You clearly don’t have even a surface level grasp of the different data types…which is good. It means you are just unfamiliar instead of wrong.
First are post types, in this case “post” and “page”. Pages are hierarchical, meaning their organization is based on a parent/child relationship. Posts, on the other hand, or chronological.
Then there is taxonomies, which are just ways to sort things. Post type can have 0~N (zero to many, in other words none or any number of) taxonomies. By default, Posts have “categories” and “tags”, but Pages don’t have any associated taxonomies. So PAGES cannot be sorted by category. Taxonomy archives (front end view or “page” that displays a collection of posts) are not manually created, the urls are built in just by the taxonomy existing (anyone reading and wants to point out custom tax arguments…I know…but don’t need to get into customs at this point)
Menus are independent of any post types and any taxonomies. You have to, unless other custom functionality has been added, you have to manually create and add items to a menu. And you can add virtually anything to a menu. Any post type, any public taxonomy archive, any custom link, etc.
All that explained to give a foundation…if you want to create a url structure like “my-category/my-subpage” using pages, which do not have a “category” as a taxonomy, you can use *page hierarchy* instead meaning, instead of giving your page a category, you create a page with the name of the “category” and assign it as the “parent page” for any child pages you want to appear under the parent.