Menu problem using Twenty Eleven theme
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I am trying to create a parent menu with pages listed underneath it. I followed the following directions to the letter (I got these directions from http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-static-top-level-tabs):
Here’s a nifty way to add static top-level tabs that you can use to organize your content. These tabs are basically place holders – they don’t link to any content, but are there to add structure to your menu items.
Check out the screenshot below: the top-level tab “Media” doesn’t actually link to anything. You can click it, but nothing will happen. It’s solely there to organize links the various media-related menu items.
Here’s how you can add Static Top-Level Tabs:
Go to your Menus page (Appearance > Menus)
Add a Custom Link and set the URL as #. Using # will prevent the page from refreshing when you select the tab.
Label your link and hit the “Add to Menu” button.
Organize your menu items like you would normally do, hit the “Save Menu” button, and you’re done!*******
So, I added the custom link with the URL as #.
Then I labeled the link “How to Dry Various Fruits.”
Then I added a menu item (a page called How to Dry Apples). I have it nested to the right in order to make it a sub menu.
Then I hit the Save Menu button and refreshed my blog.As you can tell if you go to my blog (http://howtodryfruitsandvegetables.wordpress.com/) How to Dry Apples is the link that appears as a menu option and How to Dry Various Fruits doesn’t show up anywhere. I want How to Dry Various Fruits as the top menu and How to Dry Apples as a sub menu option. It doesn’t seem to matter what I do, it doesn’t work correctly.
I decided to try deleting things to see what happens, and now I literally cannot get rid of the How to Dry Apples menu at the top of the blog. I even went so far as to delete the entire menu – according to my dashboard, I don’t have any menus whatsoever, but looking at my blog, there are three menu options – Home, About Me, and How to Dry Apples. It’s like my blog is possessed.
I specifically picked Twenty Eleven theme because it was coded and produced by WP.com, and I figured that would make it less buggy. So far, I’m not impressed. :-( Any help would be very much appreciated.
Hava
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At upper left at appearance > menu did you select your custom menu from the “primary location” pulldown in the “theme locations module” and then click the save button on that module?
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As for your last two paragraphs:
a) No menus in Appearance>Menus means no custom menus. When you haven’t created or loaded a custom menu, the theme displays its default top nav menu, i.e. all your parent pages. If you want no top nav menu at all, you create a blank custom menu and select that menu from the Theme Locations pulldown.
b) The theme is not buggy – you just missed a step, as thesacredpath already explained. And “coded and produced by WP.com” makes no difference: all available themes work exactly the same as far as custom top menus are concerned.
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“At upper left at appearance > menu did you select your custom menu from the “primary location” pulldown in the “theme locations module” and then click the save button on that module? “
No, I did not. Thank you, thank you, for the help! I read through all of the directions, then went back to the section I quoted above and followed those steps religiously. I didn’t realize you had to then activate the menu. The very next paragraph on that help page I quoted from says:
In the Theme Locations module, under Primary Navigation, select the title of the custom menu you want to activate and click Save.
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But I guess that doesn’t jump out at me and say, “Hava, Hava, if you don’t do this, your menus won’t work at all!” LOL. Apparently I need that kind of warning. :-)
Thanks again for your help, SacredPath.
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