New theme = lost pages

chantalhalpin · Member · Apr 18, 2012 at 4:58 pm
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I’ve looked through all the FAQ’s and forums and can’t find an answer so I’m hoping someone on here can help;

I just updated my theme from Elegant Grunge to Dusk till Dawn and I lost myheader (no big I can re-load that) but I also lost all of my buttons for my pages.

Under the ‘Pages’ section it still shows them all there still published, and if I click on them it takes me to them, but there are no buttons to access them on the home page any more. I tried doing a new page, which it did fine, but I still couldn’t access it from the home page.

Here is the blog; wearegoingonawitchhunt

Thank you.

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timethief · Member · Apr 18, 2012 at 5:03 pm
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Dusk to Dawn is a theme that does not have a horizontal menu. To display a custom menu in that theme you need to use the custom menu wiget in your sidebar.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/custom-menu-widget/

If you created a custom menu then Troubleshooting – My menu isn’t appearing
Go to the custom menu page in the dashboard Apearance > Menus and in the “theme location” module at upper left select your custom menu from the pulldown and then click “save”.

If you have not created a custom menu you can use this guide to create one. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

Here’s a link to a custom menu walkthrough > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/11/wordpress-com-custom-menu-walk-through/

There are many common errors, misunderstanding and misconceptions when creating custom menus and you can read about them here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/
chantalhalpin · Member · Apr 18, 2012 at 6:08 pm
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Wow – very thorough answer! Thank you for your help – I’ll give it a go :)
timethief · Member · Apr 18, 2012 at 6:59 pm
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You’re welcome and if you need more help then post again.
chantalhalpin · Member · Apr 18, 2012 at 7:20 pm
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Cool, thanks – you’re a star!
timethief · Member · Apr 18, 2012 at 7:22 pm
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What a nice compliment. You just made my day. :)
chantalhalpin · Member · Apr 18, 2012 at 7:22 pm
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:D
chantalhalpin · Member · Apr 19, 2012 at 3:28 pm
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Cool bananas – I made the custom menu (it was very easy thanks to your directions) and, obviously, it put them in the side bar.

I would prefer them in the header so I checked your list under wordpress tips and it lists my theme (Dusk till Dawn) under, ‘No Header Tabs’ but there is a side note which says, [but yes if you load a custom menu] [see note 7]
Note 7 says; 7. Brand New Day, Dusk to Dawn, Oulipo, Retro MacOS, Suburbia: tabs actually in sidebar.

I’m probably being really dim – but does this mean you can have a custom menu in the header or you can’t?

Sorry for being a pain.
timethief · Member · Apr 19, 2012 at 3:59 pm
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It means you can’t have a custom menu either above or below the header as the theme is not coded to display a horizontal menu. You have to use a custom menu widget in the sidebar instead.
justpi · Member · Apr 19, 2012 at 4:02 pm
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@chantalhalpin: In most themes the top menu is a horizontal menu in the header area, and it automatically displays links to all your published pages. That’s not the case in Dusk to Dawn: the top menu is in the sidebar, and it displays nothing unless you create and activate a custom menu.

@TT: A custom menu, not a custom menu widget.
chantalhalpin · Member · Apr 19, 2012 at 4:02 pm
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Ah I see. Thanks again :)
timethief · Member · Apr 19, 2012 at 4:04 pm
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@justpi
I’m aware that one creates a custom menu in the dashboard and uses a custom menu widget to display it. I thought expressed that above when I first posted. I know the Dusk to Dawn theme very well as I used it and rejected it in the past.
timethief · Member · Apr 19, 2012 at 4:07 pm
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@chantalhalpin
If you are attached to the Dusk to Dawn theme you create a custom menu in your dashboard . Appearance > Menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
Then you use the custom menu widget to display the custom menu links in your sidebar Appearance > Widgets > Custommenu widget http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/custom-menu-widget/
justpi · Member · Apr 19, 2012 at 4:09 pm
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@chantalhalpin: You’re welcome.

@TT: No, that’s exactly what I objected to. You just activate a custom menu in the Theme Locations module, you don’t “use a custom menu widget to display it”.
timethief · Member · Apr 19, 2012 at 4:11 pm
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If you created a custom menu then
Troubleshooting – My menu isn’t appearing
Go to the custom menu page in the dashboard Apearance > Menus and in the “theme location” module at upper left select your custom menu from the pulldown and then click “save”.

If you have not created a custom menu you can use this guide to create one. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
justpi · Member · Apr 19, 2012 at 4:17 pm
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Please read the thread more carefully, TT. What you just quoted is correct; but you also wrote (three times) that you need a custom menu widget, and that’s not correct.
timethief · Member · Apr 20, 2012 at 10:24 pm
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@justpi
Thanks for that correction — now I see the light.
dreamingwithneko · Member · May 15, 2012 at 12:29 pm
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Hey there – my ‘pages’ under my header vanished on me using the Oxygen template – where do i get them back?
raincoaster · Member · May 15, 2012 at 1:52 pm
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Please don’t hijack unrelated threads. If you do a forum search for Oxygen, you’ll probably find your answer.

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