So I deleted my two home links
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I can see that others have had this problem. Because I have a static home page, I had two “Home” links in the upper bar area of my site.
But instead of checking the forum to see how I could hide one of the “Home”s, I went to the code and deleted what I thought was one of them: the “home” code but not the “homepage” one. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
As you can see, I figured out a workaround: I put a home link in one of the sidebars, though there’s still no way just to have a single “Home” there.
So I can restore a Home link to the upper bar? Or even two of them because then I can figure out how to hide one of them. I just realized that I used to have a “Contact” link up in that area as well. Have no idea when it disappeared.
While I’m at it–perhaps this should be a separate question–when one has a static page as a homepage, does it have to have a title (like “Home”?). Since this is a simple portfolio site/blog with my name as the title and url, the info on the static page is pretty self-explanatory. I wish I didn’t have to call it “Home” or even “About me.”
Thanks!
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Hi,
Did you change Theme into your blog? Because some themes does not support the menu bar at the top. Try to change theme or make a new menu. If you want to make a new menu bar, look here: http://wp.me/p1KBhl-3Z. I hope i help!
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Thanks! I fiddled with the menu under Appearances and after a few tries, it now looks fine. And only one “Home”, not two any longer.
FWIW, no, I didn’t get into this situation by changing themes. I can’t quite recall the route but I went to the source code and deleted the “home” code.
Best, susan
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About pages are actually quite valuable to readers and apparently you’ve made yours the Home page.
I still am not sure what you mean when you said “I went into the source code…” since we don’t have access to the underlying code on our sites. Care to share? :)
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>>>”I went into the source code…” since we don’t have access to the underlying code on our sites. Care to share? :)
I know! I know! Not sure of the route I took. I definitely wasn’t looking in the menu area of the Appearances. Most likely widgets, then there was something about inspecting elements. Next thing I see is the source code. When I was looking at the code, only the lower half of the page displayed code; the upper half was the regular old page. I did a “find” for “home,” found “home” and “homepage.” Then deleted the HTML for the former.
No doubt you’re thinking: “Sure, you can see the source code, but you can’t do anything to it.” But the fact remains, I deleted both those Home links in the menu bar.
Recently I did a mini-upgrade by using the domain name I had bought and thereby dropping “WordPress” from my URL. I concluded that maybe that entitled me to a few extra privileges. But if no one else has stumbled upon this, that can’t be the explanation.
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When using domain mapping, that’s really all there is. Nothing else. Hm. Well, guess it will just remain a mystery. Thanks for the info.
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