Howto: Create a page tab for a category in Wordpress
by Kunal Jain on Apr.15, 2009, under blogs
If you usually post across multiple topics and sort them by category, you might want to highlight a few categories so that your readers can easily find them. One way of doing this is to create page tabs (like the ones saying ‘Home’, ‘About’ towards the top of your Wordpress blog) that link directly to the category page. Wordpress makes this extremely easy.
All the categories pages are automatically built. You can access these category pages by clicking on the category name on your blog (if you have the category widget displayed) or from your Wordpress dashboard. Copy the URL of the particular category page you want.
Once you have the URL to the category, create a new page in Wordpress and add a link tag in the title. The syntax will be <a href’=”URL”>Page Title</a>, where URL is the url of the category page and Page Title is the text you wish to appear on the tab. Save the page. Refresh your blog and you should see the new tab.
Categories like ‘how-to’, ‘tips’, ‘news’ particularly can benefit from this.
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August 14th, 2009 on 2:30 pm
Thanks dude…
September 4th, 2009 on 10:59 am
Folks, there is a very simple plug in that handles this very nicely. Check out the “Page Links To” plugin here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/
This plugin allows you to make a WordPress page or post link to a URL of your choosing, instead of its WordPress page or post URL. It also will redirect people who go to the old (or “normal”) URL to the new one you’ve chosen (301 Moved Permanently redirects are standard, but you can choose a 302 Moved Temporarily redirect if you wish).
It works by simply adding a field to your Page for a URL to direct the page to. Just give your page whatever title you want to, then fill in the Page Links to URL and your done…and it looks super clean.
October 2nd, 2009 on 9:16 pm
Thanks a lot for this guide, I was figuring out how to do this one! haha
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