How to Create Blogger Category Pages

How to Create Blogger Category Pages

The Category pages will automatically shows all the posts in a certain Category or Label in Blogger. But we can’t create Category Pages in Blogger. Then the obvious question comes "How to Do it". Let's do that together:

Add labels:

In order to have Blogger Category Pages, you need to categories your Posts. To do that you need to add labels to your posts. Which will allow us to group posts by similar topic.

How To add a Label to a post:

1. Go to the Blogger Dashboard.
2. Click on the “Posts” link on the left-hand side.
3. Click on the "Edit" options below the post to edit, When you Hover your mouse over Post Name.

4. In the Post Editor, on the right-hand side, are the Post Settings.
5. Click on the Labels settings.
6. In the field, type in your new label. Separate multiple labels with commas.

Find the category page link:

1. On the Blogger Dashboard, click on the Layout link in the left-hand column.
2. Find your sidebar area and click on the Add a Gadget link.

3. The Add a Gadget popup will appear. Find the Labels gadget in the list.
4. Click the blue plus icon next to the gadget name to add it to your blog.

5. The Configure Labels popup will open. Set your options  and click the Save button.

6. Now, Visit your blog. Find the Labels gadget in the Right sidebar.
7. Click on the Label you want to create a page for. You will be taken to that Category Page.
8. Copy the link URL from the browser and paste this link into a custom menu link in your Blogger menu.

Use the Category Page Link:

1. On your Blogger Dashboard, go to the Layout page.
2. Click on the Add a Gadget link where you want to add this "Link List" gadget.

3. Click on the Edit link.
4. The Configure Link List popup window will open.

5. In the New Site Name field, enter the link name to be shown in your menu.
6. In the New Site URL field, paste your Category/Label page link.
7. Click the Add Link button to add your link.
8. Click the Save button to save your new link.

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