Live demo in Shoreditch

• 

  thewholeheartedjourney · Member · Oct 28, 2016 at 5:22 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  Hello!

  I am having difficulty creating the menu under the front page, in the Shoreditch theme. It doesn’t look like the live demo…

  https://thewholeheartedjourney.wordpress.com

  Thanks!

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

• 

  timethief · Member · Oct 28, 2016 at 5:26 pm

  • Copy link

  This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
  (1) All posts on the front page.
  (2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.

  By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

  So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

  You need to be aware that:

  1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

  3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

  So the process you need to use is:

  a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories

  b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu

  c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
  and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

• 

  thewholeheartedjourney · Member · Oct 28, 2016 at 6:10 pm

  • Copy link

  Thank you so much. I will have to take my time to navigate through your suggestions.

  So, my primary issue for this theme:
  Customizing ▸ Theme Options:

  Front Page: FEATURED MENU SECTION ONE
  – how do you customize this? If you look on my website – front page, the 3 pictures all have journey on it but I would like to associate them to go to another page or a blog post that I have written.

  Thank you so much again!

• 

  timethief · Member · Oct 29, 2016 at 6:32 pm

  • Copy link

  I apologize but today I have a big rehearsal and do not have time to do any in-depth problem solving here. I will type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Also subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

• 

  justjennifer · Member · Oct 29, 2016 at 7:00 pm

  • Copy link

  @ tt thanks for marking for Staff attention. Enjoy your rehearsal and performance. :)

  @thewholeheartedjourney looking at your site at thewholeheartedjourney.wordpress.com/ I see it is currently using the Dyad theme https://wordpress.com/themes/dyad/

  Are you wanting to change to Shoreditch? If so, the theme’s Showcase page has additional information on how to set it up. https://wordpress.com/themes/shoreditch/ When you use the theme’s special panel page template as your front page, you can link to Pages following the instructions under Custom Page Templates>Panel Page Template.