I follow the instructions to set up a custom menu, and suggestion posted by Pano

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  danielhayles · Member · Nov 15, 2012 at 5:19 pm

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  I follow the instructions to set up a custom menu, and suggestion posted by Panos adding to Theme Locations sees header bar completely disappear. I am completely confused how to set up menu, have tried suggestion after suggestion but nothing works!!!

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  danielhayles · Member · Nov 15, 2012 at 5:20 pm

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  I follow the instructions to set up a custom menu, and suggestion posted by Panos adding to Theme Locations sees header bar completely disappear. I am completely confused how to set up menu, have tried suggestion after suggestion but nothing works!!!

  I am reaching the point of giving up on a BLOG!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 15, 2012 at 5:21 pm

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  Settle down and give me time to type please.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 15, 2012 at 5:28 pm

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  I’m surprised that the following instructions which are very detailed failed for for you.

  There is only one page that we can post to in any blog and we cannot prevent any posts we publish from appearing on that one page. By default it’s the front page of the blog that all posts appear on.

  Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page. Here is how we do that. We organize posts by assigning Categories to them and when we publish the software automatically displays the posts on dynamic Categories pages.

  Please read this http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and understand that static pages will never update with posts because they are not dynamic Categories pages.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

  Create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  Add dynamic categories pages to your custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menu
  Changing the Order of Menu Items and Creating Sub-Menus http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-of-menu-items-and-creating-sub-menus

  Note: that until a post assigned to a Category has been published there is no data that the software can display on a dynamic Categories page.

  Here’s a link to a custom menu walk-through > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/

  There are many common errors, misunderstanding and misconceptions when creating custom menus and you can read about them here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

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  justpi · Member · Nov 16, 2012 at 7:33 am

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  If the header bar disappears when you select a menu from the Theme Locations pulldown, this means you haven’t added any items to that menu or you didn’t click Save Menu after adding them.