I cannot make an "About" page show up as a menu item

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  zots1 · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 5:44 am

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  I somehow lost “About” being next to “Home” on the bottom of the header, & the custom menu instructions are not helping me restore/remake it.

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  justpi · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 6:01 am

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  Do you have an About page in Pages > All Pages?

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  zots1 · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 6:12 am

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  Yes, I have a few words as a placeholder draft

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  justpi · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 7:01 am

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  If you only want a home link and a link to your About page in the top menu, then you don’t need a custom menu: go to Appearance > Menus and make sure the blank option is selected in the Theme Locations pulldown.

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  zots1 · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 7:07 am

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  I’ve done that, but it only makes the Home link show (I’m sure the About link disappearing was my fault, but I didn’t notice how or when). And I can’t find any way to get any options showing in the Pages box on App.>Menus – it just says none available, shows no checkboxes or anything like that.

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  justpi · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 7:41 am

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  When you said “placeholder draft”, I thought you meant a published page with some dummy text. Now I’m guessing you mean the page is a draft instead of a published page. If so, you need to publish it: drafts can’t show up in the menu.

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  zots1 · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 2:48 pm

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  Thanks! That seems to have fixed the problem.