Bad links in custom menu of the Pique theme demo "About Us" page
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Every item in the custom menu displayed on the Pique demo “About Us” page appears to link to the wrong page. For example:
- “Where We Buy Our Beans” links to the blog page, titled “What’s New — Pique,”
- “Ethics in Fair Trade” is linked to the “About Us,” page, https://piquedemo.wordpress.com/about-us/, or perhaps it does so by default in the absence of a link URL,
- “Barista Training” links to https://piquedemo.wordpress.com/readability/,
and so forth.
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@musicdoc1 thanks. I don’t think the demo actually has pages on where we buy our beans and what not, but I can see how that’s confusing. I’ll pass that feedback to the theme team.
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You’re probably right. I didn’t find pages for any of the menu items on the “About Us” page. There are other oddities about the Pique theme and the Pique demo. For example:
1. As I mentioned in the recent topic Grid Page, in the Pique demo the featured images and titles of the grid items in the grid page “Our Baristas” do not link to the child pages. Also, the same page is featured as a panel of the demo’s static front page, and the grid items (featured images and titles) aren’t linked to the child pages there either.
2. All of items in the header area menu on the front page link to panels of the static front page, though links to the other pages may be found in the mislabeled items of a custom menu in the footer widget area.
3. The menu on the “About Us” page, where every item links to a page unrelated to the corresponding navigation label, is also found on each of the single posts.
4. The only direct link to the blog page is the “Where We Buy Our Beans” item in the menu found in the header area menu of the single posts and the hidden “About Us” page, and in the custom menu widget in the footer widget area. Only one of the posts on the site seems to have anything to do with where the beans were bought.
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the grid items in the grid page “Our Baristas” do not link to the child pages
That may be intentional with this theme, which is meant to be a “single page” theme for the most part. The site owner this is designed for might not want a full page on each individual. But I will note this anyway.
All of items in the header area menu on the front page link to panels of the static front page, though links to the other pages may be found in the mislabeled items of a custom menu in the footer widget area.
The front page links are intentional because it’s supposed to be a single page theme. It sounds like the menu in the footer widget / sidebar widget is the main source of all of these concerns; can you confirm?
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@musicdoc1 I just double checked with our theme folks and they’ve confirmed:
– the custom menu labels are different on purpose just to give the demo more of a coffee shop feel. It’s just fake content.
– the child pages are not supposed to have links because this is designed as a single-page theme.
If anyone who is using this theme is struggling with that, let us know.
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– the child pages are not supposed to have links because this is designed as a single-page theme.
I appreciate your efforts here. I’ll try to explain the problems as they appear to me with the Pique theme’s use of the grid page template in another way:
- A. The theme is said to be “designed as a single-page theme,” but
- B. “The Grid Page Template is designed to showcase child pages,” as you say in the recent topic “Grid Page,” but in this case on the front page of the Pique demo there is evidence of a grid page template page, and its three child pages, on the site. That makes at least five static pages, and they all exist. They are
1. The static front page
2. The page “Our Baristas,” with the grid page template assigned, and its child pages
3. Countess Chocula — https://piquedemo.wordpress.com/our-baristas/countess-chocula/
4. Admiral Fluffy the III — https://piquedemo.wordpress.com/our-baristas/admiral-fluffy-the-iii/
5. Groucho Marx — https://piquedemo.wordpress.com/our-baristas/groucho-marx/.
There are additional static pages in the demo, but the others are presumably of less significance. - C. There are no links to the grid page or its children on the front page. So one must use ingenuity to find them. I found the grid page by appending and extension based on the page title to the site URL.
- D. On the grid page template page itself, “Our Baristas,” the featured images and titles representing its child pages are not links, and you’re left with appending extensions to the page URL to find them.
Does it make sense to “showcase” pages on the front page which you must hunt for in order to visit, because there are no links to them, parent or child pages? Or to have the parent page display a grid representing its child pages, but without links to any of them?
We might suppose that the designers intended to only use the grid page template as an easy means of getting three images and three corresponding descriptions in neat rows without having to resort to tables, or some clever coding. However, others who use the Pique theme might want the visitor to have easy access to the grid page itself, and its child pages. I’m also presuming that the front page version of the grid would show excerpts of the contents of the child pages.
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However, others who use the Pique theme might want the visitor to have easy access to the grid page itself, and its child pages.
See, for example, the recent topic Grid Page, where you’ve responded. The OP lutheranhighschoollaverne says:
For the sports teams I would like to do a grid page of the players and when you click on the picture it directs them to the individual page of that player.
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Do you possible know how to make the grid ink clickable? The grid is there but it will not allow me to click on it.
Doesn’t it seem reasonable to expect the featured images and titles of a grid page to link to the child pages? That’s what grid page templates are for.
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I understand that in the case cited the member hadn’t added child pages yet. But adding the child pages will not resolve the issue.
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I’ve passed all of this feedback to the theme team. Thank you.
And no, grid/child pages are not always for links. Sometimes used for other purposes. On one page themes, pages are more like building blocks.
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