Pages showing on Sidebar (widget) AND Top Navigation
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Added Page Widget so as to organize ‘PRODUCTS’ ..when add a page, shows up on Top Navigation Tab–HELP!!!
Also – is there a way to enable default widgets, as they are replaced entirely (go away) when add a Widget.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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vitaguide,
Please provide a link to your blog when asking a question here, starting with:
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Often we need to take a look.Re: your second question: Just add the widgets you want again.
Re: first question: some themes do not have top navigation
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/header-page-tabs/
Or you could use categories rather than pages to organize “products.” -
Thankyou! I do have quite a few categories to add; but wanted pages so as to have a ‘static’ content reference.. when I add a page it publishes in Widget.. AND Top Nav. -don’t want on top Nav. as I will have several pages…publishing on Top Nav. kind of defeats the purpose of having pages in a widget –ARG!! I didn’t provide link as I am at the very beginning stages of setup and I have since removed the page widget. I will just dump ALL products (there are many) on one page.
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“publishing on Top Nav. kind of defeats the purpose of having pages in a widget “.
No (and this might be useful to you), because the widget displays all pages while the header displays parent pages only. So you can use a few parent pages for the header and turn the rest into child pages.
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vitaguide
When you write posts and assign them to categories, each category will have a list of posts associated with it. When you click on a category, wordpress generates a page with links to all the posts in that category. That page is updated as you add more posts to that category, and though that page changes when you do that, the link to that category page remains constant. So you can link to that category page.
So what I’m saying is that you could have a page in navigation (maybe called products) and on it would be links to pages about all the different types of products you are writing about. Your categories could be “vitamins” “mineral supplements” “natural medicines” (or whatever types of products you want). Then you could write posts about vitamin A, about vitamin C, about zinc, about iron, about echinacea, about chamomile and assign them to the appropriate categories. Readers then could choose your link to the Vitamins category page and they will see your posts about vitamin A and vitamin C.
This sounds more complicated than it is once you have set it up. It’s easy for readers to find exactly what they are interested in if you have chosen your categories carefully.
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panaghiotisadam this is what I am trying to do… parent pages and children.
e.g.:
Trip (as the parent)…..Boston
…..Chicago
…..Miami
…..San Franciscoetc.
Am I here talking about pages or categories? What I really want is a page for my trip, and each individual place I trip to in the side bar.
So where do I start, how do I go about this? Or should the blog name be ‘Trip’ and then make a categorie for each place I visit….. In that case each categorie would have just one post.
Lifey who is really quite confused.
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@lifemagician: You can go about this any way you please – pages, child pages, categories… (To further confuse you, we’ve got child categories too!)
My opinion? Simply put, forget pages. Pages are optional, and are meant as side information (e.g. an introduction to the blog, or a biographical note). The essence of blogging is publishing posts, not pages. And the natural way to organize the “regular” content of a blog is categories.
So (assuming “Trip” is not the only thing you’ll ever write about) what I would do is exactly what you’ve got at the moment: trip = category; individual towns = individual posts filed under that category; other topics (e.g. your “Learning about wp”) = other categories.
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