About Theme Links and Subpages

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    fatsheep · Member ·

    Two quick newbie questions about the blog I just set up at http://gfboards.wordpress.com/.

    1. I would like to put a prominent, permanent link to my forums on the horizontal navigation bar if possible. How could I do that?
    2. Currently, when I make a subpage to another page, there is no way to view the subpage other then to link to it manually. Is there a way to automatically list an index of the subpages (and their subpages) on each page that contains subpages? The reason I ask is because I would like to create a categorized section of pages for different types of articles. If there is a better way to do this with wordpress then please let me know. :)

    Thanks a bunch,

    – a newer wordpress user

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    1) you can create a page with “go to our forums here” and a link to the forums in it and the title of that page could go in the header. Those header links ONLY go to pages on your blog, nowhere else. I don’t think even using the CSS upgrade will override that.

    2) can’t help you there.

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    timethief · Member ·

    /nod to raincoaster
    (1) No changes can be made to the navigation bar.
    (2) By placing configuring the pages widget to display hierarchy and placing it in your sidebar you can achieve this.

    What must be understood is this. A blog has only one page that will automatically update. All other pages and sub-pages are static and sit outside the blog structure. They can only be updated by editing and they cannot be assigned categories.

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    atthe404 · Member ·

    I see no good reason why the said big link plus even a graphic should not be placed in a text widget.
    Then with a whiff of CSS magic it could be repositioned anywhere on the blog. How cool is that? :)

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    atthe404 · Member ·

    Re reading fatsheeps question. All pages can have sub pages. In a proper case they would show up in the pages menu in the vertical menu. Yours should do. But where that pages menu goes horizontal a lot of theme authors do not include the proper stuff in their code because they do not know how to. Furthermore here at WP com it is virtually impossible to get them to run at all. Hence no sub pages in horizontal menus by default. It is one of the limits of using a shared muti user platform like com. On a WP dot org blog of course you can do what you like.
    Finally sub pages do not have cats because they are lol sub pages. It makes the admin area messy if you have a lot of static content. But there we are.

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