Can't create a main menu
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I can’t seem to create a main menu. When I go to the Appearance / Menus dashboard, the pages I created (Home, About, Contact Us) are not showing up under the “Pages” dropdown box in the left side menu… so I can’t add them. How do I get all my pages to show up in that dashboard menu, and then show up in my template??
Thanks in advance!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Well, I think I found a solution, althought it’s not ideal. I created custom menu for each page. I’d still like my pages to show up in the dashboard side menu… if anyone can help with that, that would be great!
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Hi. The blog linked to your username no longer exists. In order to assist you, we need the URL of your blog, starting with http:// please. Thanks.
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Hopefully this works. I’m pretty new to all of this stuff.
http://ottawawellness4work.wordpress.com/
I have the blog set to private, but hopefully you can still see the menu (or lack of!)
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As mentioned, I did find a way around getting the menu up there, but if there is a way to add the pages back into the side menu on the Appearance / Menus dashboard, that would be helpful.
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Under Appearance > Menu, check your screen options on the top right corner and make sure Pages is checked.
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By the way, your blog is not private, because I could view it. Perhaps you meant to say that it’s blocked to search engines?
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I went to screen options at the top, and it is checked off. It still says “No items” under the Pages drop down menu to the left. Strange…
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I couldn’t fnd a way to remove the site from search engines without deleting the site, so I made most of the pages ‘private’. You should get an error message on all pages, except for the home page. That’s what I see when I log out of WordPress and then visit the site.
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Maybe starting from the beginning will be helpful. Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
What’s critical is:
(1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.
A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and custom links in your custom menu as well. You choose the order in which to display the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. How to create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus
Also note that if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page for your site, and also create a “blog” page for your posts to display on, but that’s optional.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/Custom menu isn’t appearing!
Go to the custom menu page in the dashboard Appearance > Menus and in the “Theme Location” module on the upper left select your custom menu from the pulldown and then click “save”. -
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