creating a cusom menue

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    syoungphotography · Member ·

    Hi there. Can someone have a look at my sight please. I am trying to create a cusom menu and have used the custom menue widget. I created new posts ‘Paris, Edinburgh and cassis’ and added a category called ‘Lieux d’intérêt’ when creating the posts. That,s fine. The new category has appeared again under the dropdown of ‘Hippodromes’ but I didn’t want it duplicated there. Is there a way around this? Shaould I have created new pages and not posts?
    thanks in advance, Sharon

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    syoungphotography · Member ·

    Sorry I changed it to try with pages. It didn;t really work either as I want Paris and cassis to be linked to the ‘Lieux d’intérêt’ (places of interest). Mmm, it’s all rather trickey!

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    airodyssey · Member ·

    Hi. You have both a page AND a category called “Lieux d’intérêt”:
    Page: http://sharonyoungphotography.com/lieux-dinteret/
    Category: http://sharonyoungphotography.com/category/lieux-dinteret/

    So, the easiest way to solve this is to replace the “Lieux d’intérêt” page in your custom menu with the “Lieux d’intérêt” category.

    P.S. Has your website been translated using an automatic translator?

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    syoungphotography · Member ·

    Hi there, thanks. I’m changing things every 2 mins to see what might work, so I changed the “Lieux d’intérêt”:as you advised, to a category and Paris etc are all pages (I changed them from Posts). However the Lieux d’intérêt is still showing under the hippodromes drop down and I don’t want it there.

    I used a bing translator as my French isn’t that good. Will accept any advice though. Cheers.

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    airodyssey · Member ·

    I’m sorry, I should have been more specific. Your “Hippodromes” dropdown is actually a dropdown of all of your categories. Unfortunately, that widget has no setting to exclude a certain category. The best advice I can give you at this point is to actually consider either:
    – removing “Lieux d’intérêt” from your custom menu, or
    – creating a separate custom menu where you add only those categories you want (it won’t be a dropdown though).

    In regards to the quality of the French: it looks like you are a professional and that your website is intended to French-speaking customers or prospects. In order to give them the best impression, I suggest you ask a native French speaker (a friend or a professional writer/translator) to proof-read your entire website.

    Also, if your entire site is in French, you may want to change the language (under Settings > General) so that certain things like comments will be in French as well. This will not change the language of your dashboard (it’s a separate setting).

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    timethief · Member ·

    Id you think you must create static pages to display Categories in a custom menu on your are wrong. Delete any such pages you have created as airodyssey has said.

    When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages.
    Note 1: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.
    Note 2: Only posts (not pages) can have categories assigned to them.
    Adding Categories via Your Dashboard
    Adding Categories to Posts with the Categories Module

    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/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus
    Use these instructions for adding categories to your custom menu > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menu

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    timethief · Member ·

    ~~airodyssey
    Good morning. :)

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    airodyssey · Member ·

    ~~timethief

    One more thing, and this is for syoungphotography or anyone else who uses automatic translation:

    Please accept this suggestion for the future: do not use automatic translation (also known as machine translation) for anything else than your own personal use.
    This is from the FAQ of the Translation Bureau of Canada. It explains the limits of machine translation and gives a good example of what can happen when it’s misused.
    http://www.btb.gc.ca/btb.php?lang=eng&cont=163#a11

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    syoungphotography · Member ·

    I didn;t quite understand-“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”. I have no idea if I should be using the category or custom menu widget and have been at this all day, I don;t want the categories to duplicate under Hippodromes.

    All I wanted to do was create something in the sidebar where I could have a few different headings with 3 or 4 things linked to each heading. So, I am wondering if it is pages with subpages that I should try to create. Does that mean linking pages to the parent page. Because when I create a parent page, if anyone clicks on that it displays no content.

    p.s thanks for the translation advice. I don;t use it to translate blocks of text as our French neighbour hepls with that.
    cheers, Sharon

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