Trying to set up a free website

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  johnbrennanlive · Member · Jan 22, 2015 at 12:42 pm

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  Thanks rainmaster, I shall re-read the document and see how I go the second time.

  I guess it’s understanding the different methods and see which one works:
  1. Custom Menu
  2. Links
  3. Parent

  You see I don’t want to have a great long list of TABS in my Navigation Panel.

  I shall keep working at it.

  Kind regards
  JB

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jan 22, 2015 at 6:11 pm

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  Hi JB!

  I took at a look at this page:

  Short Stories

  That’s perfect. Now, we need to get some stories on that page instead of on your sidebar like this:

  http://d.pr/i/1c0Wt

  Can you follow these steps?

  1. Create a new custom menu here:

     https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php?action=edit&menu=0

     Instructions to do that can be found here:

     Menus

     We only want to include the pages you want the reader to see. So, do not include Story 1, Story 2, Story 3, etc. Leave those off.

  2. Publish a new post called “Story 1.” Instructions for adding new posts can be found here:

     http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post

  At that point, we’ll have a new post (a new “story”), and we’ll be ready to put a link to it on your page titled “Stories.”

  Let’s get to that point, and I’ll provide some additional instructions!

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  johnbrennanlive · Member · Jan 23, 2015 at 8:49 am

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  Thank you kindly for your help.

  Today, I created a Custom Menu and called it Navigation Panel Menu.

  I added 3 items to that menu, that all appear in the Navigation Panel.
  Home
  About
  Stories

  I then added 3 more labels as sub items under the umbrella of Stories.
  A Static Page Link
  A Dynamic Post Page
  A Static Page Page

  These 3 labels appear in the Navigation Panel and not in the text area of Stories.
  I still do not know how to get them there.

  Kind regards
  JB

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jan 23, 2015 at 6:26 pm

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  Hi JB!

  From what I understand, you do not want the items to appear here:

  http://d.pr/i/1gYWi

  Is that correct? If so, navigate to this page:

  https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php

  Expand the sub-menu items and use the delete button:

  http://d.pr/i/1iQ8H

  Now, once you’ve done that, navigate to this page:

  https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=140&action=edit

  That’s the “Edit” page for your “Stories” page. Highlight the text you want to be linked and then paste in the link to the actual page like this:

  http://d.pr/i/1kT9f

  Once you update the page, the words should be hyperlinked. Can you give that a try?

  Additional link instructions can be found here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/#creating-links

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  johnbrennanlive · Member · Jan 24, 2015 at 10:42 am

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  Stories
  http://wp.me/P5CHDj-2m

  Above is the just the link to Stylistic Rome.

  I would like to see the image and title of Stylistic Rome here as well.

  I do not know how to do this.

  Any suggestions?

  Below is what happens when I cut and paste manually, but you cannot click on it, it’s just a piece of text with image.

  Stylistic Rome
  Stylistic Rome

  On my first trip to Rome, I noticed how well the people dressed.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 2:19 pm

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  See the Links support page to learn how to create text links. Image links are created using the same Insert/edit link tool in a post or page editor menu bar. The HTML code you need to display the title “Stylistic Rome” (in header font) which links to the page https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/stylisticrome/ is

  <header class=”entry-header”>
  <h1 class=”entry-title” style=”text-align: center;”>Stylistic Rome</h1>
  </header>

  The code for the image link to the page title “Stylistic Rome,” would be

  <p style=”text-align: center;”><img class=”size-medium wp-image-167″ src=”https://johnbrennanlive.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/stylistic-rome.png?w=300&h=280″ alt=”Stylistic Rome” width=”300″ height=”280″ /></p>

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 2:21 pm

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  Insert the URL of the page “Stylistic Rome,” https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/stylisticrome, in the first code. It was stripped.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 2:54 pm

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  Correction:
  More than the URL was stripped. Replace the blue link “Stylistic Rome” in the first code above with

  (start tag)a href=”https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/stylisticrome/”(end tag).

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 25, 2015 at 2:56 pm

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  start tag is <
  end tag is >

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  johnbrennanlive · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 6:03 am

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  Hi here music doc,

  Thank you kindly for your suggestions. I am trying to implement them now.

  Are your image links CLICKABLE?

  When you click on the image, does it open the page?

  Kind regards
  JB

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 7:43 am

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  Are your image links CLICKABLE?

  Yes. The title and the image each link to your page https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/stylisticrome/.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 7:44 am

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  Left click, or right click and open in new window, tab (Firefox).

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  johnbrennanlive · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 8:13 am

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  I think I am missing something here.

  How can I insert this link
  https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/stylisticrome/.

  into an image?

  JB

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 8:36 am

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  1. Embed the image in a post (or page).
  2. Click on the image in the editor.
  3. Click on the Insert/edit link tab in the editor admin panel at the top of the editor window. This will open a module.
  4. Insert the destination link (e.g. https://johnbrennanlive.wordpress.com/stylisticrome/) in the box labled “URL.”
  5. Click on the Add Link button at the bottom of the module, or on the Update button if you are edit an previously created image link.

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  johnbrennanlive · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 8:54 am

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  1. I have placed an image in the Stories Page.
  2. Problem where do I find the editor?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 9:19 am

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  I meant the editor window. That’s the space you enter the page content into.

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  johnbrennanlive · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 9:30 am

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  1. I have placed an image in the Stories Page

  2. When I open the edit, the image is displayed as text
  [caption id="attachment_176" align="alignnone" width="300"]<img src=”https://johnbrennanlive.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/stylistic-rome1.png?w=300″ alt=”Stylistic Rome” width=”300″ height=”280″ class=”size-medium wp-image-176″ /> Stylistic Rome[/caption]<div class=”entry-content”>

  This is where I am stuck.

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  johnbrennanlive · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 9:37 am

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  Not so stuck now Opened in Visual mode not Text mode.
  Am continuing.

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  johnbrennanlive · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 9:51 am

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  Hi MusicDoc,

  Thank you for showing me this.

  With your help, I have now linked Stylistic Rome to the image above.

  Now if I added other images and did what I have just done, is it possible to put them all into a grid?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 1:03 pm

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  Now if I added other images and did what I have just done, is it possible to put them all into a grid?

  Some themes have a special page template called Grid Page Template in which child pages of a page assigned to this template will display in a grid arrangement. This theme doesn’t have any template options. Themes which have a Grid Page Template include the following:

  Sela
  Motif
  Goran
  Edin

  In the absence of a grid page template option you could use a table to a create a grid arrangement. See the suggestions by timethief in the forum topic Easy tables from word press.