New page not showing in navigation bar
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I’ve just published a new page to my blog (have done many before) – and for some reason the page title is not showing up in the top navigation bar – yet the page is showing as published. Here is the page: http://kareninglis.wordpress.com/picture-book-to-enhanced-ebook-conversion/ But you will see that it’s not appearing at the top of the screen. Any ideas why not? I thought it might be to do with which sequence no. I had assigned it, but changing that doesn’t work – I’m completely baffled and have no idea if this has gone out to my followers!
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No – just the standard word press one – but I’ve just noticed the word ‘post’ in the URL. I had started this out as a post but then realised I wanted it to appear as a static page – is it to do with the URL do you think? I’ve pasted it below from inside the dashboard…
https://kareninglis.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=819&action=edit
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Actually all of the static pages contain the word edit so I’m not sure that’s the issue! And the one I posted above was from another page, not the one in question which is: (ie same basic format)
https://kareninglis.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1427&action=editIs there a direct WP help email that I can use?
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Read through the custom menu support page and have a go at creating one that’s a duplicate of your existing menu (with the new page included!)
It might seem like extra work now but it will make things a lot easier to customise should you want to make changes in the future.
Don’t worry about getting confused – the easy way to tell if something is a post or page when viewing the single version is to see if the date and title are in the URL, if they both are, then you’re looking at a post!
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Thanks, Halluke – I’ll take a look at that. And thanks for the tip about page vs post!
But I’m still puzzled as to why this has happened randomly. What I love about WP.com is how seamless it all is! The idea of playing with my menu terrifies me – I have so many followers and really don’t want to mess things up! But let me take a look.
If anyone else here has any ideas do let me know.
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Custom menus are brilliant and they’re surprisingly simple to set up – if you do get stuck just post back here and let us know which step you got stuck on and hopefully we can get you back on track!
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Thanks, Halluke – will the URLs of all the page stay the same if I create a custom menu?
Assuming so I will have a cup of tea and then have a go and report back later! Not had my ‘breakfast’ yet as was so busy getting the post out!
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I’ve fixed it! Thanks so much, Halluke! I’d completely forgotten about that feature which I used for the first time recently when I wanted to add a cross link to my author site! :-)
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Easy, isn’t it?
I’ve just checked out your site and you have lots of items in your menu so you might even want to check out sub-menus, you can see how they look if you hover your mouse over “Page” on the theme demo site.
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Thanks, Halluke – I have used sub-menus on some of my book sites and may consider it here. My slight criticism of them is it’s easy to ‘miss’ the first (parent) page – so it’s necessary to make that a landing page – eg if you see here http://ferdinandfox.wordpress.com/ When you hover on the Ferdinand Fox Kids’ Book App title you see the drop down. But I can see from my stats that users often miss the main page which comes first as they skip to the first drop-down pages…
Certainly if I add more items to my site I’ll start to rationalise – the sales and marketing and tax pages are the obvious one… The tax on US royalties one has had over 10,000 views so I’d not want to change its URL mind! But I guess that wouldn’t happen if using the custom menu feature…?
K
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The URL would stay the same so you wouldn’t have to worry about links from other sites or people’s bookmarks/favourites not working.
You can even create a “blank” link for the header and include all your pages as sub-menu items if you’re worried people are missing the parent item. Or change the link text without having to change the page URL or title (for example you could make the menu link text for Paying UK Income Tax on book royalties – UK authors into something shorter if you wanted. The possibilities are (almost) endless!
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