How to Link Category to Page in WordPress

September 30, 2010 by Vipul in Web Services, Wordpress with 0 Comments

Many times while dealing with wordpress themes, I have come across many such queries where the top navigation shows the pages and not categories. Now, if your wordpress website is a blog and not a corporate website with static pages then you might want new post coming up daily or weekly.

You can’t just keep on creating pages and put it in the top navigation. The best way is to create categories and after you create categories link a single page to that category. For example, if I write blog about diet meals I surely want to have a page on the top saying “Diet”, which will link to all the post I am writing in the category of diet meals.

So, the simple solution in wordpress is to use plugin which will do the work for you without interfering with codes in wordpress.

The plugin is called as “Page-link-to”. The plugin simply provide with a custom field below each of your post and page which help you to decide where your post or page should be redirect when it clicked.

Now you might think that redirection will not help in SEO or can reduce the SEO impact of your website. So, let me clear this. Page Link to uses 301 redirect that means, whenever you redirect any page to post or vice versa, search engine thinks that it has been permanently moved and all your link juice or creditability is passed to the redirected link. So, its SEO friendly wordpress plugin.

The next step is go to the plugin, click on search and search the plugin, install it and you are ready to go.

So, now I will create a page called as Diet and without writing I will go down and copy paste my category link of diet meal in the custom field where to say page link to. And yup, I’m done with linking categories to pages in wordpress