When adding additional nodes to the top level navigation
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Hi. I am using the INove template, and I am trying to add more nodes to the top level navigation. Right now there is only Home and About. I believe that the way to do this is through the menus option, however, when I try and add things like Contact Us and Archive, there doesn’t seem to be a way to provide for an email address or a link to the archives sections. The backend only has a few option for things to add like Custom Links, Theme Locations, Pages, and Categories. Anyone know how I can add custom menus?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Is this the blog in question? http://www.hominidfarm.com
Staff have provided this support documentation entry for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
We organize our posts by use of categories. There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. When we publish a post we have assigned Categories to that post automatticlly appears on the Categories pages assigned to it. Also it immediately appears in the Archives.
So although we cannot post to more than that one page we can create the appearance that we have done that by setting up a custom menu and displaying Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation menu. We can also display custom links, and static pages links in that custom menu by adding them to the menu. Instructions > custom menus > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
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How to create static pages for pages such as About, Contact-Us, etc. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
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WordPress also provides a quite robust contact form feature here as well where you can even add your own fields and such.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
For archives, you can create an archive page using the archives shortcode that wordpress has provided and then add that page to your custom menu.
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Good points. Thanks for posting. G’day too you. :) We still have rolling power blackouts here. :( -
No, the website is http://www.coveringdelta.com.
You guys were both very helpful, thank you. I think I accomplished the major, functional changes that I wanted to make, but if i have any other questions i’m sure you will know the answers.
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@hoitar
You’re welcome from me and please feel free to post any other questions you need to find answers to. :) -
You know what, I spoke to soon. There are two other questions I have.
1. Under the primary navigational node “contact me” I have two sub navigational links: ’email’ and ‘twitter.’ If you click on the email it brings up the email form, but if you click on twitter nothing happens. However, if you open the twitter link to a new page it gets my twitter account. Any idea what is happening here? Clearly it’s not a dead link.
2. Users have the option to comment on all my posts, but I don’t want people to be able to comment in my menus like contact and archive, for instance. Right now, there is a comment option on all of these menus. This is particularly confusing if you are in the contact form, and you have multiple text boxes. Any idea how I can restrict on what pages users have the option to comment?
Thanks!
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I think the masking that I am doing with the http://www.coveringdelta.com domain is part of the problem.
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Open those individual pages represented by the tabs at the top, and in the “discussion” module down below the text area you can disable comments on a page by page basis. If the discussion module is not below the text area, click on screen options at the top right of that editor page and check screen options and it will then show in the editor window.
On the twitter thing, if you are doing some redirects, then that could quite possibly be the issue.
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Actually, correct your URL in the twitter menu item and take out the www. Twitter does not use it and that seems to be the problem with that tab.
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