help needed with structure of site
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I am struggling to create a site for a kids cooking camp program that was delivered during the summer in South Carolina through 4-H Clemson Extension. I am the culinary program developer and want to document the variations manifested in each of this years 11 camps delivered in 11 counties across the state. What is the best way to set up the structure? I have many photos in Google albums for each camp as well as 2 word docs for each camp–one with the agent’s overview and one with selected photos from that camp. Should I run the names of the counties across the top of the main page or just say ‘Counties’ which becomes a drop-down list. (now that I have expressed that, I think that I see that I need to set it up as the second option–but how do I do that?
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Hi,
Should I run the names of the counties across the top of the main page or just say ‘Counties’ which becomes a drop-down list. (now that I have expressed that, I think that I see that I need to set it up as the second option–but how do I do that?
You could do it either way, and I will direct you to the relevant support pages presently. But first, do you want the county menu items to link to static pages, or to dynamic category pages? A category page displays every post assigned to the category specified.
1. Counties as top-level menu item:
You won’t run out of space, because the menu bar will expand in height to incorporate multiple lines of items. The items will automatically appear in alphanumeric order, so that the counties might be mixed with other pages in the menu such as “About” and “Contact.” For this reason, you might prefer option 2. below.Note also that on small devices such as phones and tablets the menu items, regardless of how many there are, will be hidden behind a single button titled “Menu.”
2. Counties in drop-down menu under top-level item labeled “Counties”:
a. If all items in the menu are to be static pages, then create a static page titled “Counties” and make it the parent of each of county pages, as described in the “Parent Page” section of the Page Options support page.The links to the pages will display in alphanumeric order in the menu by default. The order can be changed as described in the Order section of the Page Options support page, or more easily if you replace the default menu with a custom menu. See the Custom Menus support page.
b. If you create and activate a custom menu to display your menu items, the order can be modified as described in the “Organize Your Menu” section of the Custom Menus support page. The same section of this support page describes how to create drop-down menus using a drag and drop procedure.
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Thank you! I am working through the procedure via a Lynda.com lesson and it’s slow going but I am getting there. Thanks for your reply and insight on why to do it one way or the other. I will keep plugging in the components and hopefully it will all look ok in the end. I’m going to use static pages since the camps are all over for this year. We will do more next summer and set it up another way, most likely.
I appreciate your support!
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Anne,
You’re welcome. I noticed just after publishing my post here that the drop-down menu of counties was in construction.
Noticed also an error I made. I didn’t realize that there was no default menu with the Twenty Sixteen theme. Therefore, creating child pages under the parent “Counties” would have no effect upon the appearance of a menu with this theme. However, it might be useful for other reasons.
Regards,
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Dear Doc,
Spent all day on this and feel that I made progress–though it is not perfect by any means. But I seem to have lost some pages in the process. Quitting for now, but here is the site in progress.
https://4hhealthylifestylescookingcamp.wordpress.com/Anderson and Beaufort counties are messed up and the contact page–which I spent 3 hours on, unbelievably–is missing again.
Maybe it will make more sense tomorrow!
Thank you for your guidance. There is a steep learning curve for me with WordPress. I’m much better with the simpler Blogger format–though I can see the advantages of WP. Just takes time.
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Anne,
Good work. Don’t rush it.
- The links to Anderson and Beaufort in the menu are working properly. In fact all of the county pages are properly linked to in the menu.
- The Contact page is in trash, which is evident by the URL: https://4hhealthylifestylescookingcamp.wordpress.com/contact__trashed/
- The two sub-items under the “About” page, “History” and “Summit,” aren’t linked to any published pages, so these links result in 404 errors.
Solutions:
1. No action required.
2. Restore the “Contact” page from trash. See the Restoring from Trash section of the Trash support page for instructions.
3. Create and publish the pages “History” and “Summit,” and add their URLs (addresses) as link URLs to the corresponding menu items.Regards,
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