How to add Label (Category) Tabs To Navigation Bar in Blogger Blog

How can i add a tab? “on horizontal navigation bar” that shows all the posts that fall under a subject or category in Blogger?

Prior to the correct answer, let us see a popular – but - wrong “Blogger” technique (using Photos category as case in point):
Create a page with “Photos” as the title. “Photos” tab will be added to the bar mechanically. So far so good.
Effort to add Photo posts to the “Photo” page. This is where it gets trapped, because posts can’t be added to pages.

Operation Botched.
Well, that’s the end of Solomon Gandhi.
The accurate method of doing this is by adding a tab with a label URL used as the target link.  A label URL can be described as a link that points to a label-search page. This page lists out all posts labeled with an exacting label.

Check Out the Steps:

1. Label your posts.
Label your posts according to subjects or categories (if you haven’t by now done so). This is pretty basic, However, if you don’t have the slightest thought what a label is or don’t know how to apply it, read How do I label my posts?.

You can also apply a label to multiple posts at once.

2. Now get the label URL.
You can get the URL to a label-search page by right-clicking on the hyper-linked label. in Chrome select “Copy link address”, and if you are using Internet Explorer, select “Properties” and copy the link from there.
You can usually find the labels at the bottom of your post and in Labels gadget if you have a Labels gadget installed. If you don’t see any label, you can always construct the URL yourself.

A  URL follows the format below:
http://YOURBLOGNAME howtotipsandtrick.blogspot.com/search/label/YOURLABEL PCTools
For a multiple word label such as "YOUR LABEL", you need to replace the space between words with %20, like so: YOUR%20LABEL. Labels are case sensitive; make sure you enter the correct letter case.

Example:
This is the URL for BloggerSentral’s “SEO and traffic” label. Clicking it will take you to a page showing all posts that fall under that label (opens in new tab/window):
http://www.bloggersentral.com/search/label/SEO%20and%20traffic

3. Add the tab with the label URL
The technique of adding the tab is different depending on the type of widget used for the horizontal navigation bar.

To add the tab to the Pages gadget, follow this tutorial: Adding non-page links to Pages/PageList gadget.
If your tab uses a LinkList gadget, enter the URL into “New Site URL” text box.

For tabs that are made of list items or anchor tags, just add the label URL as a target link like this:
<a href="PUT LABEL URL HERE" >Link Text</a>
www.howtotipsandtrick.blogspot.com

Flexxxx!

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