Menus on Twenty Eleven
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Hi I am a brand new blogger on word press. (Can I admit, I’m so excited!!) Although I’ve started blogging I have, of course, a bazillion questions. For today, though how do I add to my menu bar across the top of my header in Twenty Eleven? And, when is that more advantageous than a sidebar? I’m asking because when I went to try it my “About Barb” disappeared from my menu section. HHhhmm…? Any thoughts, or suggestions ?
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Hello there and welcome,
This is the link to the learn WordPress.com tutorial.
This is the link to all support documentation and the searchbox there provides results from the docs and from forum threads too.
This is a link to very useful post on the Twenty Eleven theme. -
You cannot post to pages. Pages are static and sit outside the blog structure. With WordPress, you use categories to organize posts into subjects and then you can add those categories to your navigation using a custom menu. This is not theme specific.
Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
What’s critical is:
(1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
(2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.
A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and custom links in your custom menu as well.
How to create a custom menu. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
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I’m asking because when I went to try it my “About Barb” disappeared from my menu section.
This is the link to the Themes Showcase entry for Twenty Eleven.
The Twenty Eleven theme features three default layouts for your blog. Two of those layouts feature a typical sidebar, either on the left or right of your content. The third layout does away with the sidebar altogether turning Twenty Eleven into a tumblelog theme.
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Wow! Thanks so much for the quick responses guys!! I don’t have time to check this all out now since I need to do something else (finish writing some lesson plans), but I am unbelievably excited that you’ve responded and I think I can remember how to get back to these pages and try this maybe in a day or two. YEAH!! Thanks again!!!
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