Get rid of Menu bar at top

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  feigel · Member · Jan 28, 2018 at 8:01 pm

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  How do you get rid of the menu bar at top completely?

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

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  drunkentennis · Member · Jan 30, 2018 at 4:02 am

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  Good day,

  Looks like one of the menus you have is set to display at the Primary Menu location. To not display this menu, please try the following:

  Go to Theme Customization -> click on Menus -> Click on the Menu that has subheading like ‘Currently set to Primary Menu’ -> Scroll down to Menu Location and uncheck any box if checked

  Cheers,
  Win

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jan 30, 2018 at 4:06 pm

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  Hi Win – I’m not sure if you tested this, but Sketch – like many themes – will display a default menu consisting of all a site’s pages, if no custom menu is assigned.

  The two ways around this, if you don’t want any menu at all to be displayed, would be:

  – Hide the menu with custom CSS, or

  – Create a menu with no menu items, and assign it to the Primary Menu location

  feigel – let me know how it goes.

  Please keep in mind that removing your menu will make it difficult for visually impaired folks using a screen reader to navigate your site, since your alternative menu consists only of images. For that reason I’d suggest that you add descriptive alternative text to each of those images, to make sure your site remains accessible to all.

  If you have further questions, just let me know!

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  feigel · Member · Jan 30, 2018 at 10:18 pm

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  Thanks for the help Kathryn and Win!

  Kathryn – your second suggestion worked! I don’t have access to the CSS so I couldn’t do that. But glad there was still a work around!

  Thank you for the help!

  Alice

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jan 30, 2018 at 10:41 pm

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  Glad that helped!

  Please let me know if you have any trouble with the alternative text. For example, “what I look like” would be better than the current “whatilooklike2” – and other alt text, like the “art challenge with my mom” is currently blank.

  Here’s where it goes in the editor:

  

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  drunkentennis · Member · Jan 31, 2018 at 2:44 am

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  @kathrynwp,

  I made a blunder. I did notice after unchecked the menus, the default menu was still there.

  I didn’t know that themes can have default menus. Glad to know that.

  And great ideas on the 2nd option, I didn’t think that can be done. Much to learn!

  Glad it’s working for you, Alice!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jan 31, 2018 at 2:00 pm

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  Win – no worries. :)

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  feigel · Member · Jan 31, 2018 at 3:28 pm

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  Kathryn –

  In the portfolio section is there anyway to make it so if you click on the square on the home page it links out to another blog? At the moment, you go to the page and then I have to say “click here to see the blog”…

  Note: That I’m just on the personal plan so I don’t have access to CSS.

  Thanks!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jan 31, 2018 at 3:47 pm

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  Hi Alice – no, it’s not possible to link a portfolio project to a custom URL.

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  feigel · Member · Jan 31, 2018 at 3:49 pm

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  Thanks for the response!