Creating menus/sub-menus for your home page
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It’s been ages since I’ve done this and maybe it’s changed in the meantime?
Anyway, I recently added a post which I wanted to appear via the drop-down menu from my homepage. It didn’t. Trying to fix that now but getting a bit lost. Currently in the WP Admin section, then “Appearance”.
Thought I’d made progress on this but when I saved my changes, I noticed that the new sub-menus I thought I’d created appeared under another, irrelevant menu. Actually, the new sub-menus don’t even appear in the wrong place…I can’t find them!
I would just like to know how I can create sub menus and sub-sub menus so that my new posts can appear in the right place.
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Thought I’d made progress on this but when I saved my changes, I noticed that the new sub-menus I thought I’d created appeared under another, irrelevant menu.
I only find one menu on your site.
Actually, the new sub-menus don’t even appear in the wrong place…I can’t find them!
Please provide an example. That is, please give us a title or navigation label (or both) of a new sub-menu.
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I only find one menu on your site.
This is the homepage for my blog:
If you look there you’ll see menu items for:
Documentary
Film
Music
Television
Video Games
Miscellaneous
etc.My latest post appears on the top of my homepage but not under the relevant menu item, which is Video Games. When I was writing that last post, I did introduce categories for it but they haven’t worked with the menu system.
I tried again the other day but the relevant sub-menu additions, like “Mass Effect Trilogy” didn’t appear on the homepage menu systems, under Video Games. I noticed later that I unintentionally introduced those sub-menu categories under one of my JFK sub-categories. That’s the one I meant when I said that I can’t even find them there.
I want my latest post to appear under Video Games > Video Game Reviews > Mass Effect Trilogy > Mass Effect.
How do I introduce those sub-categories into my homepage’s menu system?
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It looks like I’ve figured out who to do this…until I forget again and have to go through this process again!
Admin > Appearance > Menus
Still, for some reason, when I went to add these sub-menus, I had the wrong super-category appear in the “Select a menu to edit” section at the top of the page when you are editing it.
I managed to put those proposed sub-menus under the right Category to get them to appear where I want them to appear (in the Video Games section).
That leaves one outstanding matter for me now…I added a comment below my review of the last title (which has now disappeared for some reason!) and I wonder whether you can edit such Replies to add or remove comments). Since I can’t find that post now, can’t really investigate this myself…at the moment.
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Ok…it’s a pity I can’t edit my posts here (or can you?). I found my reply to my review and you CAN edit them, which is good.
Beforehand, I think you could view my reply near the top of my homepage (before I put my review in a sub-menu). Now I had to access my reply via the hyperlink to my comment in the body of my main review.
*** Can you add tags to replies or making them appear under sub-menus?
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I tried again the other day but the relevant sub-menu additions, like “Mass Effect Trilogy” didn’t appear on the homepage menu systems, under Video Games
This won’t happen automatically in the main menu that appears at the top of the page in the header area.
I want my latest post to appear under Video Games > Video Game Reviews > Mass Effect Trilogy > Mass Effect.
I see that you were able to get this added. Is your end goal to list out several specific video games under “Video Games > Video Game Reviews”? If so, you may want to group them into broad categories and just list the broad categories in the menu.
I added a comment below my review of the last title (which has now disappeared for some reason!) and I wonder whether you can edit such Replies to add or remove comments).
Comments will only appear on individual pages and not on category pages.
For example, this is a category page and you will will not see comments on that page but you can see a link that says “1 Comment” near the top right.
https://dfle3.wordpress.com/category/video-games/video-game-reviews/mass-effect-trilogy-video-game-reviews/mass-effect-1/This, on the other hand, is a link to the individual post where the comment was left, and you can see the comment at the bottom of this view:
https://dfle3.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/mass-effect/Ok…it’s a pity I can’t edit my posts here (or can you?).
You can edit posts. There are a few different ways to reach your posts for editing. Here are a couple:
1. Click the “Edit” link next to the date on the post itself
2. Open the post and then hover over the “My Sites” link in the toolbar and click on “Edit” (note that the “Edit” link will only appear if you are on the post itself, it will not appear in the toolbar dropdown if you are on a category page)
3. Go to https://wordpress.com/posts and search for the post title then click “Edit”
Can you add tags to replies or making them appear under sub-menus?
You cannot add tags to comments. Sorry about that! You could create a custom link pointing directly to a comment, however, I wouldn’t recommend it because your menus would start to get really complex and hard to follow if you did that.
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Thanks for that. I’ll bookmark your post as at the moment I have things back under control. The issue for me is that I haven’t been on this site for ages and it initially took me a while to get the hang of this kind of stuff – I probably have posts similar to this one, but years old – and then this site makes more changes and you have to spend time thinking about how to do basic things. That’s not a design philosophy I like. E.g. can you imagine if a toaster required thinking about how to use it? Or having to post up a question on a forum on how to use it, now that the design has been “improved”?
re your first reply comment…that sounds like a distinction between Categories in general, and Categories which appear in sub-menus on your homepage, right? In which case, now that I’ve got the hang of the homepage sub-menu caper, I’m now clueless on what the other kind of Category is for/good for.
*** Could you expand on or perhaps link to what you have in mind re:
“I see that you were able to get this added. Is your end goal to list out several specific video games under “Video Games > Video Game Reviews”? If so, you may want to group them into broad categories and just list the broad categories in the menu”?
I’m not sure how many titles I’ll review here, but if I do post up a few, they’ll be broad in scope. So, my main category would be Video Games, of which Reviews will be sub-category. Mass Effect trilogy is sub-category of that. It’s possible I may add sub-categories on an equal footing with Mass Effect trilogy, e.g. Bioshock games, or Assassin’s Creed games etc.
Since I haven’t attempted to post more unrelated game reviews on this site yet, I haven’t felt the need to add such sub-menus as yet. I’ll add them when the time comes. But, again, if you a good example of how to organise those sub-menus, I’d be glad to look at it.
Thanks.
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re your first reply comment…that sounds like a distinction between Categories in general, and Categories which appear in sub-menus on your homepage, right? In which case, now that I’ve got the hang of the homepage sub-menu caper, I’m now clueless on what the other kind of Category is for/good for.
Right, there is a distinction between categories in general and categories that appear in sub-menus. Those two things work together. You must add a category to a published post first, and only then can you add it as a menu item. If you create multiple posts using the same category, they will all get listed on the category page automatically.
Here is an example where you can see all 4 posts with the category “documentary” listed on this category page:
https://dfle3.wordpress.com/category/documentary/This makes it so you don’t have to add a menu item each time you create a new posts. Instead, you add the category to the menu once and then people can click on that to read all of the posts related to that category, starting with the latest one at the top.
“I see that you were able to get this added. Is your end goal to list out several specific video games under “Video Games > Video Game Reviews”? If so, you may want to group them into broad categories and just list the broad categories in the menu”?
I’m not sure how many titles I’ll review here, but if I do post up a few, they’ll be broad in scope. So, my main category would be Video Games, of which Reviews will be sub-category. Mass Effect trilogy is sub-category of that. It’s possible I may add sub-categories on an equal footing with Mass Effect trilogy, e.g. Bioshock games, or Assassin’s Creed games etc.This makes sense. I was asking if you were going to use a few broad categories and it sounds like that is your plan. I suggest just listing the main categories and sub-categories in the menu.
Since I haven’t attempted to post more unrelated game reviews on this site yet, I haven’t felt the need to add such sub-menus as yet. I’ll add them when the time comes. But, again, if you a good example of how to organise those sub-menus, I’d be glad to look at it.
Just looking at the Video Games as an example. In the menu, I would organize something like this:
Video Games
– Video Game Reviews
— Mass Effect
— Another Game
— Another Game
– Tips & CheatsIt’s a shorter menu than what you have now with fewer levels. However, of course how to organize the menus in the end is really up to you!
I think it will become more apparent after a little more content has been added and you get a better feel for how categories work.
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