Adding label (category) tabs to navigation bar on Blogger.

Before I give a correct answer, let’s first see a popular-but-wrong DIY method (using Music category as an example):

Create a page with “Music” as the title. “Music” tab will be added to the bar automatically. So far so good.

Attempt to add music posts to the page.

This is where it gets stuck, because posts can’t be added to pages.

Mission failed !!!

Well, that’s the end of that.

The correct way of doing this is by adding a tab with a label URL used as the target link. A label URL is a link that points to a label-search page. This page lists out all posts labeled with a particular label.

First you need to add the "Label" gadget to your blog. To do this, from your Dashboard page, click on the "Design" link under your blogs title. On the "Design" (Arrange Page Elements page, click on any of the "Add a Gadget" links.


On the gadget list which comes up, choose the "Label" gadget and drag it where you want it on your sidebar. Your Labels won't show up there until you put labels on your posts. You can do that by writing a post and then giving it a label in the lower right hand corner of the post editor. Or, you can add them later by going into the "Edit Posts" page and using the drop-down menu at the top.


You can add labels to multiple post at one time with the drop-down feature. Also, if want to change the name "Label" to "category" or something else you can do that by changing the title in the Label gadget, and by clicking on the "Edit" link of the "Blog Posts" box on your "Design" (Arrange Page Elements) page and changing it.

I hope this helps.