Pages
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I’m trying to consolidate two pages under one category — About Blog & Blogger. However, when I do that readers get a blank page without access to the two separate pages — About Blog, About Blogger. It’s very frustrating. The two pages disappear from view. What should I do?
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I’m not sure I understand the question. Do you mean making them child pages to the same parent page?
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Yes, that’s right. I want people to click on the parent page and be able to choose among the child pages: “About Blog,” “About Blogger.” The parent page reads “About Blog & Blogger.” Thanks for responding..
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Only parent pages show in the header, so you have to add the Pages widget for the sidebar.
And you’ve got to write something in the parent page – maybe the links to the child pages. (There are some themes that do that automatically, but the one you’re using doesn’t.)
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Thanks for your patience. I appreciate it. I’m not sure I understand what a widget is, but you’ve given me something to go on. I’ll explore it and see if I can figure it out. Good idea about putting the links to the child pages on the parent page — I’ll give it a shot. Thanks again.
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Here is info about widgets:
http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/
Look at “Related” to see what each widget does.
They may or may not all be available in your theme, and some are built into the theme already. -
@mcorreia: Note that since you haven’t added any widgets, the theme displays its own sample set; once you add any widget yourself, that set is cancelled. So if you need the widgets you’ve got now, you’ll have to add them back. (Just pointing this out so you won’t get unnecessarily alarmed when you add the Pages widget and see the rest of your sidebar items vanish.)
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Thanks for all the advice. I was able to add the pages widget to my sidebar, and it’s looking more or less the way I’d like it to. One question: how do I get the widgets to appear in the order that I want them to in my sidebar.
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mcorreia,
Have you tried to add the “blogroll” back to the sidebar?
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That is odd. Panos is much more expert than I, but blog-roll should be “available” on your theme. (especially if you had it as one of the preset widgets before adding the pages widget)
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Yes, thanks, that worked. I got my blogroll/links widget back on my site. Here’s another question: how do I get a tagline to show up underneath the name of my blog? The information is in the place where I can customize the header, but I’ve never been able to get the tagline to show.
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That’s a shame. How difficult would it be the change to a new theme? Would I have to re-input all my blog entries — a years’ worth — into the new format?
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Of course not! You can readily switch to another theme, and you don’t lose your posts, pages, links, etc. You only have to pay attention to two things:
– Depending on the pair of themes, you may lose your text widgets, if you have any. So copy their content first, and paste it in a simple text editor.
– There’s a bug concerning widgets since the implementation of 2.7. You have to remove them all, save changes, then switch to the new theme and add them again.
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I’ll have to try it, when I’m feeling brave. I have another question, only marginally related to pages. I don’t understand why my photo doesn’t appear in the icon boxes by my posts/questions. I uploaded my photo, so it should be visible, right?
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That, too, is theme-dependent. Most don’t display avatars on posts, just on comments. But some, like Neo-Sapien do.
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@mcorreia: The theme you’re using should display your avatar in your comments (if you’ve set that under Settings > Discussion > Avatar Display).
But it seems you have only uploaded a blavatar, not an avatar.
Blavatar = blog pic, set under Settings > General.
Avatar = user pic, set under My Account > Edit Profile.
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