Adding menu items and pages to Connections theme

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  grumpytyke · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 7:43 am

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  The Connections theme has two default items in the menu – Home and About. I’ve created a page and assigned the About menu item as the parent. What I expected in that my page would appear in a drop-down under About but it does not. However, what I really want to do is create a new menu item, called Ramblings, then have my page (and others as I add them) appear under this menu item. I even tried creating a custom menu but my page did not appear in the list of pages so I could not add it to a menu item (the page is saved as a draft; is this the problem, do I have to ‘publish it’ to see it in the list of pages? I’d prefer to have it working correctly before publishing). Am I trying to do something which is not possible? I don’t think so because the illustration of the Connections theme shows it with additional menu items.
  Can anyone tell me how to do what I want? I don’t know anything about CSS and although I may well upgrade later so I can format the text and add plugins I would like to do it in the free .com blog first if possible. Thanks. grumpytyke

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 8:48 am

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  Most themes here do not natively support dropdown submenus, so you need to create and use a custom menu.

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  grumpytyke · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 1:25 pm

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  Many thanks for this. I created the custom menu but the problem is that a page I created (it appears in the list when I click ‘all pages’ and I can edit it) doesn’t appear in the list of pages on the menu editing page so I cannot add it. I succeeded in producing additional menu items by selecting categories, and even managed to produce a drop down by shifting a subcategory to the right. But what has happened to the page I created and how do I get it to appear somewhere in the menu so it can be accessed? If I’m being thick please excuse. thanks.

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  justpi · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 pm

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  the page is saved as a draft; is this the problem, do I have to ‘publish it’ to see it in the list of pages?

  Yes.

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  grumpytyke · Member · Jun 13, 2012 at 1:59 pm

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  Thanks. OK, I’ll have another careful look at the draft so I’m happy to publish then have a go.