navigation labels when setting up website

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  lizawedgwood · Member · Jul 4, 2012 at 9:10 pm

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  As a beginner please help – how do I add to my navigation labels. Cannot find instruction anywhere!

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

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  timethief · Member · Jul 4, 2012 at 9:36 pm

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  I don’t know what you are referring to when you say “navigation lablels”. Please be very specifc and descriptive.

  1. Are you referring to Page tabs found at the top of your blog such as:
  News
  Liza
  Raqs Sharqi
  Workshops
  Contact

  2. Or are you referring to “previous posts” and “next post” links?

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  lizawedgwood · Member · Jul 5, 2012 at 3:36 am

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  I am referring to Page tabs. Part of the problem is I do not know the terminology. Very hard for a beginner!

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  cdvsmx5 · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 9:00 pm

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  Unless you do a custom menu, these tabs are automatically added when you create a static page, but not for posts.

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  lizawedgwood · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 9:49 pm

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  Thank you, but I have created what I think as several pages which do not appear as tabs at the top. What therefore is a ‘static’ page?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 8, 2012 at 9:55 pm

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  The front page of the blog by default will display your posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. If you choose a static front page then you have to create two pages as I said above. After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.

  My Pages aren’t appearing – see Page visibility and be aware that not all theme provide dropdowns to sub-pages natively. That why we crate custom menus.
  They must be public pages – not private.
  Public – The page will be visible to everyone.
  Protected – The page is protected with a password you set. Only people who have the password can view a protected page.
  Private – Pages are only visible to blog Editors and Administrators. Private pages are not visible in Blog Surfer, feeds, or in any search. A page can be private without being password protected. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/