menu label
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How do you give a menu navigation label for an untitled page?
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No. I have a static front page – no title for the page because I don’t want the title to show on the page. For example, if I enter “Home” as the title, then the word “Home” shows on the page. But, I want this static page to be the “Home” page in the menu, so that you go back to this untitled page (static front page) whenever you click “Home” on the menu.
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The tab in the top nav menu doesn’t have to be the actual page title, so here’s what you can do:
Edit the pages and delete their titles.
Go to Appearance>Menus and create a custom menu. Select your (now nameless) pages from the Pages module, click Add to Menu. Click the arrow at the right side of each page module to open it, type the title in the Navigation Label field. Click Save Menu, select the menu from the Theme Locations pulldown, click Save. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/duster-theme-double-headers?replies=5#post-616357 -
That’s what I’ve been doing – no dice. Funny thing is, I did this on another wordpress blog and it worked fine. But when I do it now, the tab in the menu is blank – like the navigation label doesn’t exist. Cannot figure out why it worked once but won’t work now.
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Hold it. Is Home the only tab you have? Is it the Home tab supplied by the theme? Or is it a tab you created when you added that page to a custom menu?
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Not the only tab – but doesn’t seem to matter. The theme does not supply a tab. The tab for the static page and one other are those that I created in the custom menu.
Check it out: post3baseball.wordpress.com
The only way I can get the nav tab to include the nav label is to add a title to the page – then that title shows up in the nav tab. If I delete the item from the menu on the menu page, the nav tab is still there and the label is the page title. Bottom line is that the nav label in the menu is not controlling the label showing in the menu tab – the title of the page is controlling.
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Seems to make sense – except in order to try this I need to find the “theme locations module”. I can’t find this.
BTW, I deleted the menu and the menu tabs are still there.
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Quoting from my post:
Custom menus are created (and edited) in Appearance > Menus.
Preliminary step
Click Screen Options (top right) and make sure Theme Locations, Custom Links, Posts, Pages, Categories and Tags are checked. -
And after you figure out the basics, check the section of my post that says “Tabs for pages but no page titles on the actual pages”.
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Problem was that Theme Locations was not showing in the Screen Options. I figured out how to get it there and once I did that everything else fell into place.
Thanks, I wouldn’t have gotten there without your help.
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You’re welcome.
There’s no way “Theme Locations” won’t show in Screen Options when you’re in Appearance > Menus. You were probably trying Screen Options while on another dashboard screen: each dashboard screen has different screen options.
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