Working with theme page tabs

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  izaakmak · Member · May 23, 2009 at 3:54 pm

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  I’ve been considering changing to a different theme, but the one I like the best has those page tabs across the top. Can anyone point me to reading material on how to work with them, including hiding them from view. Thanks in advance.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 23, 2009 at 4:22 pm

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  There really isn’t much to working with them. The ones that show up there will be the pages that you have created, or create. There is a trick that works with some but not all themes where you can actually create a page and then in the title field for that page, put a hyperlink to say categories, or perhaps your own website. This does not work with all themes though. This blog post tells how to do it, and lists which themes are capable: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/page-tabs-as-external-links/ .

  As far as hiding them, that requires CSS editing experience and the paid CSS upgrade.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 23, 2009 at 4:34 pm

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  You can have just the home tab and one other. If you make all of your other pages child-pages of the second tab, then you will have only 2 tabs on top, and you’d use a page widget for navigation.

  There is a sort of trick with html in a text widget that might work to cover the navigation tabs, but I’m speculating here. Might be dependent on the theme. I’ve got a background color and a tagline on my blog without CSS; they aren’t perfect but are adequate.

  Here is a list of themes with top navigation:

  The Home tab

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  izaakmak · Member · May 23, 2009 at 5:02 pm

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  Thanks my friends

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · May 23, 2009 at 10:54 pm

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  @izaakmak: Which theme is “the one you like the best”? We might be able to hide the tabs.

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  izaakmak · Member · May 24, 2009 at 12:39 am

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  Wow, I didn’t realize another post had been made. The theme I’ve got my eye on is called Ocean Mist. The way my blog is currently set up cause it to look bad when I preview the new theme, but I’m not afraid of a little work.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · May 24, 2009 at 3:43 am

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  @izaakmak: At first I thought I might work out a code for you to mask the tabs, but this is not a good solution. If you want to stick to your current setup, you could have one header tab only -your “cover page”- by turning all the other pages into child pages to it (the header displays parent pages only).

  But I don’t see why you’ve set the blog this way. You could have the same result, and no header tabs at all, by simply using categories instead of pages.