Create an unattached page/post that can be linked to

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  matthewburgesswales · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 9:40 pm

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  I just want to create a ‘page’ or a ‘post’ which will not appear on the main menu bar across the top or appear as a new post YET can be linked to.

  I want to create some text which is unattached but can be linked to using it’s url.

  I don’t want to post it privately as I don’t want it’s visibility to be restricted.

  My end result would be to see the ‘Pen-Pics’ sub-header disappear but can be linked to via it’s url on another page on the sub-header.

  I hope this makes sense, thanks for taking the time to read this.

  Regards

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 9:46 pm

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  Use a Custom Menu to replace the default Menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  Then put your Text on a Page and just don’t put the new Text Page on the Menu.

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  mmadfan · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 9:47 pm

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  You can create a page and not have it visible in your header.

  Twenty-Ten allows custom menus, so you would just exclude the page from your custom menu and keep your “about/contact” page. (You have to make sure that “automatically add new top level pages” is not checked, or your page will show up on your custom menu & you’ll have to remove it manually.)

  Go, Neath! ;) (Had a good friend who was a Neath fan. :))

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 9:48 pm

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  PS – use a Contact Form in place of your email and the spammers will have a harder time getting to you.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

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  mmadfan · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 9:50 pm

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  ~~auxclass! Good to have seen that about the contact — I know I was astounded by how much spam Akismet caught trying to go through my contact form! I’m glad I didn’t have to deal with it in my email. (And I think I’m destined to be about one minute behind the rest of the world! lol)

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  matthewburgesswales · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 9:50 pm

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  Thanks for the quick responses – I’m going to have a read through this and then feedback!

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  matthewburgesswales · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 9:52 pm

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  Auxclass – if I replace a custom menu will I loose all the pages I’ve created?

  mmadfan – small world!!

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 9:54 pm

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  @southwalesfootball – You be welcome & good luck

  ~~ @mmadfan – it all works out at the end of the day – sometimes one of us will see something that others don’t or explain things in a way that makes a bit more sense to the person asking the original question.

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  matthewburgesswales · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 10:09 pm

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  I’ve created a menu without the page I want as advised but the original menu is still showing.

  How to I activate the new menu I’ve created? Any changes I make on the dashboard on the menu section are not changing live. (I’ve made sure I’m saving them before checking).

  Thanks!

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 6, 2011 at 10:13 pm

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  Way down at the bottom in sort of fine print:

  Menus