December 11, 2011 update: Before you read this article, you should know I now consider it unnecessary. Because of new feature of custom menus from WordPress version 3, a post can be assigned to a menu item among page menu items. Therefore there is no reason to do what I outlined before. 🙂
From quite a while ago I’ve been wondering if there was a way to assign a category and tags to WordPress pages. There is no apparent option to do this in WordPress. Posts have the capability to be assigned categories and tags, but pages have no such option. Besides this, I wanted to have long articles added as pages to both appear in the top page menu and yet also have them appear as titles of new posts in the sidebar menu widget.
One of my projects is http://starsandpearls.com/ The short articles were add as posts, but some of the long articles, the “E-zines”, are laid out in a magazine format with its own internal menu. If you go to the site and put your mouse over the “Stars and Pearl E-zine” menu item, you will see the menu drop down with menu items that all point to pages. And yet you will find 6 of the same menu titles also in the Recent Posts side bar menu! How did I do it? Read More »WordPress – How to assign categories and tags to pages