How To Make a Menu Bar That Categorizes Posts In Blogger

One of the biggest problems with Blogspot is the menu bar. In WordPress, you can easily and quickly create drop down menus. In order to make that work in Blogger, you need to modify your code.

However, not all is lost. Maybe you can’t have drop down menus without a lot of headache, but you can have categories at the top of your menu bar. You can use your labels as categories.

Let’s say for example you write about food, marriage, and fashion. When someone comes to your site, they may only want to browse through the marriage posts. By creating a menu tab with the word marriage, blogger will pull up only those posts.

Typically a menu bar is only comprised of static pages or outbound links. However, using a simple formula, you can create your labels to work as menu bar items!

If you haven’t created labels yet, you should. Labels are like extra keywords that attach to your post, but if you want to use the labels to help categorize your posts, pick about five or six labels and always use the same label when you are adding it to a post.

Once all your posts are labeled, here’s how to make the menu bar.

1. Login to your Blogspot dashboard.

2. Go to pages.

3. Click on Create New Page.

4. Choose Web Address when the drop down menu bar comes up.

Click on New Page and Choose the Web Address Option.

5. Type in the title as you want it to appear (in our example, type the word Marriage).

6. Now you need to type in a URL.

http://www.[your blog name].com/search/label/[your label]

7. Hit save.

8. Just make sure on your pages page, the option is checked off to show…

“show pages as top tabs”

You are all set! Any blog post that uses that label will be pulled up like a filtered archive  (listed according to date).

See? Wasn’t that easy? I cannot believe I didn’t figure this out earlier, but it all happened randomly as I was helping a blogger transition her blog. I knew drop downs required coding, but the search/label function was so simple and I had used it in other functions before, but never thought to use it in the menu bar.

We’ll just chalk it up to a blond moment. Now go spruce up your menu bar!