Categories for Articles

Is there any way to make categories and subcategories in my blog page selectable via sidebar or breadcrumbs navigation. 

Right now, I've only got articles on 'GCSE English Literature' - as you can see. But, there are many other topics I want customers to be able to click on to access articles just on that topic - almost like what is possible on the product/shop pages on Squarespace. 

Yes it is, I use an archive block. What you want depends on how extensive you want your navigation to be. Try my blog, posts by subject on the drop-down menu.

https://www.derricksrandomviews.com/blogsummary

If you think this will work for you, I will provide instructions to set it up. 

Yes, the drop down option looks perfect. This will definitely work - please let me know how I can do this! Thank you so much. 

I use two blog pages. One is for the actual full posts, the second is to create the drop-down menu. The first blog is in the unlinked section of my site, the menu blog is the front-facing blog page. 

Each full post receives a category, if the category goes over 30 posts, number them cat-1 and cat-2 like travel-1 for the first 30 and travel -2 for the next 30, etc. In the second blog, I create a post and name it  Travel, and the only thing in that post is a title and summary block or blocks, no featured image, no excerpt. The summary blocks pull content from the main blog page by the travel category. I also give that post the category Travel. 

The drop-down menu pulls content from the second blog, and it uses the category of each post which are my categories/subjects that you see in the menu. 

I also have a post in the second blog called featured, it is the latest post so it rides at the top of the page. I have one summary block that pulls content from the main blog filtered for featured posts, using the featured toggle. This is usually my newest post, but it can also be one I want to put back at the top of the page for whatever reason. 

This takes some time to set up, but once it is done, any new post gets a category and it immediately shows up on the second blog page under the correct category. Sometimes you may have to move the slider adjustment in a summary block to include more posts. 

This is all done without any code. My blog has lots of Custom CSS. It only changes the look of each item. I also hide the categories from the post, since the title says what it is. I hide the dates because I fudge those to get the posts in the order I want them to be. If I want a date I  type it at the top of my post. 

One extra capability of this arrangement is I can create a link to any category in the second blog and put that link anywhere including on my Nav bar. I did that with my photography lessons and other posts. 

If you have any questions ask them here.