Questions About Categories and Appearance

Hello,

I’m currently setting up my site and I’m having problems with two aspects. I am assigning categories to test posts that I create, however, these posts can only be seen in the menu that the category is referring to. I would like the post to be visible on the main page as well as the menu that it is categorized under, but I’m not sure how to do this. Also, I’m having a hard time trying to display posts like what is seen on the screenshot demo for WP Fanzone. I would like to have the preview of the blog as a box of text over the image associated with the post, and I would like to have a template for recent posts similar to what is seen in the same screenshot, but I’m also not sure how to edit my site to do this. Thanks for your help.

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