My custom blog is not adding menu tabs
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Hi
I’ve changed my theme to support the custom menu. It doesn’t seem to be adding menu tabs – for example I have the HOME and ABOUT menu but it will not add any menu that I write in. It just seems to sit in cyber blog somewhere. I would like to add the menu TRAVEL – when I do it just sits in a drop down menu and I can choose it as a primary but then it does nothing. PLEASE HELP – I’m very new to this.
Warmest Regards
Dany
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If you are using a custom menu, you have to manually add pages to it. Have you done that?
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I go to appearance – menu then create a new menu with travel. But it doesn’t show up where my Home and About is – it just seems to be able to be a choice as a primary menu and that is it. Thank you so much for replying!
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also, remember to save or update your changes—>the first custom menu I made, I forgot about saving it…
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Hi
I have created the menu Travel but it won’t allow me to put in the same place as the Home or About. I would like to have the navigation menus simliar to this site:
http://www.enjoysiliconvalley.com/Currently my measly site looks like this:
http://danyekelly.wordpress.com/
I don’t know why it isn’t allowing me – do I need to pay? This is a free blog that I’m using.
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Have you confirmed that your theme supports multiple menus? If not, then you’ll have to set Travel as your primary menu if you want it to show up.
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You need to add a link to your page called “Travel” to your custom menu. Then you will have navigation tabs for “home” “about” and “travel”.
Here is a different article about custom menus so perhaps that will add some more details about what you need to do:
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I’ve confirmed that it has a custom menu – but not multiple menus. How do I search this? Are they the same thing.
Once again really appreciate your assistance.
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@raincoaster,
Expound supports only one menu. The OP is trying to add a navigation tab to her primary menu, not a menu called “travel”.
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@danyekelly,
Please read the article I just provided the link to. That should help to clarify how a custom menu works. -
Here is the relevant information from that article:
2. I want to add several menus but my theme says it supports only one
First, a menu is a group of tabs, not a single tab. A menu can be vertical or horizontal. The whole group of tabs in the header area is the top menu or top navigation menu (usually horizontal); each tab is a menu item.
and the picture to show what Panos means:
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@danyekelly,
You need to publish a page called “travel” before you can add it to your menu. -
Yes @ 1tess I’m trying to add a navigation tab/menu item called Travel. I’ve done as you suggest and read the tips – which is much the same as the other tips from wordpress – however they did suggest to make sure all the boxes were ticked on the right hand corner (they weren’t) – I went to tick them and then checked to see if this helped – then returned but the ticks had not remained.
I’m also worried as it says to make sure that I have published the changes. There is no button that says to publish (for my new menu item). Maybe this is my problem?
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Let’s go back to basics: Does the page Travel already exist? If the page does not exist, you cannot add a menu item for it.
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Ok – sounds good.
Do you mean does the page Travel exisit, like Home and About exist?
If that is the question then no.
What I did was I went to Dashboard – Appearance – Menus. Then I choose to create a new menu (Travel). Then it gave me the option to either :
Automatically add new top-level pages to this menuor
Primary Menu
I accidently did the Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu.
But I think I was meant to do Primary Menu.
If this is so is there anyway I can change it and/or reset and start from the beginning?
Or have I completely missed the point?
Thank you very much guys!
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http://danyekelly.wordpress.com/travel does not exist. If what you want is a static page, create it. If what you want is a category page, for blog posts in the category of travel, create some posts in that category and then add this link to the menu: http://danyekelly.wordpress.com/category/travel
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Hi guys – it ended up being that I needed to add pages – not menu’s. Thank you so much for your help. Kind regards
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