unable to resolve my menu problems
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I have twice had menus that I was working just disappear. I don’t think I deleted them by accident. In the second instance I had completed multiple additions of widgets and tried to make a correction to the text and the whole thing disappeared.
I started all over again today and went to check my home site and there found multiple menus and have no way to delete what’s there and enter new material so that I only have one menu.
I use the 2015 theme. I will be away from my computer until about 14:00 hrs and would really appreciate help with this when I get back. Thanks. It is 13:14 now, edt.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can assign multiple categories and tags to your posts (not to pages or the site) and create a custom menu.
This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) A static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.
So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.
You need to be aware that:
1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.
3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.
So the process you need to use is:
a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories
b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus -
I use the 2015 theme.
The detailed theme description page with set-up instructions is here https://wordpress.com/themes/twentyfifteen/
If you do not like the way that theme treats menus then select Twenty Sixteen instead. https://wordpress.com/themes/twentysixteen/
Switching themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site. Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you have done any CSS editing.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.
The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.
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Thank you again. I’m going back to the drawing board. Will review the whole menu tutorial (for the umpteenth time) and will likely change my theme in the end.
I envy people for whom “computer” and “language” are not foreign and contradictory terms.
Thanks again
Dick
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The Twenty Fifteen theme has a limited custom menu display in the left sidebar. Switch themes and the issue will be resolved
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